Brief introduction

as a Tree in three major branches: 1) Proper Names (al-a‘lam): Attributes of the Creator (awsaf al-bari), the Infallibles, the prophets and the righteous, women, reciters, jinns and angels, revealed books, places, religions, sects and tribes, causes of revelation. 2) Qur’anic Sciences: Meccan surahs, Medinite surahs, names of verses and surahs, number of verses of each surah, the abrogating and the abrogated (al-nasikh wa al-mansoukh). 3) Concepts: evens and days, du'as, Fayz's interpretative opinions, arguments and answers, cause of naming, jurisprudentional concepts, grammatical matters, isnads, thematic traditons, traditions dealing with virtues and advantages, criticism of traditions, variant reading, interpretative traditions.