01-03-2007, 04:43 PM
Assalamualaikum Brothers and Sisters,
All praises are for ALLAH and peace and blessings on our holy prophet (sws), whoever ALLAH guides none can misguide and whoever ALLAH lets to go astray none can guide.
Brother, as far as the issue of tafsir goes, no tafsir is free from error and as its a human work there are bound to be errors in it. And reading a tafsir, requires some preliminary knowledge of hadith, that doesn't mean that we have to start reading a tafsir after we get this knowledge. No, but the point is with the tafsir, you have to simultaneously start reading Bukhari, Muslim or compiled hadith books like riyad-us-saliheen etc. And if you are a new reader, i recommend you to read the makki surahs first, because they deal with the matters of emaan, taqwa, aqeedah etc which is the base. And the main thing you asked, the most authentic, as judged by all the scholars to this date is tafsir ibn kathir, so do start reading it. And make duaa for this slave of ALLAH.
your brother in imaan
imran
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu