Paul Nwyia believes this exegetic work is a Shia counterpart to Ibn Ata's exegesis on Quran except that in Sunni versions, the hadiths referring to the Ahl al-Bayt are all removed but one. This book is collected by Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani. Tafsir Numani is also sometimes known as Tafsir Imam Jafar al-Sadiq. The exegesis indicated by Aqa Bozorg seems to be the same as the one compiled by Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Harb.

He further surmises though that some companions of Ja'far al-Sadiq may have in fact narrated such hadiths from him. Aqa Bozorg Tehrani asserts that Shia biographers and scholars of transmission authorities ( rijal) do not refer to this treatises. In al-Dharia, there is reference to a treatise titled Tafsir Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq, a manuscript of which is available with Ali pasha Library in Istanbul. This is while that of Sulami is Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Nasr Baghdadi, Abd Allah Ahmad ibn Amir, and Ali al-Ridha. His transmission chain going back to Ja'far al-Sadiq includes Abu Tahir ibn Mumin, Abu Muhammad Hassan ibn Muhammad ibn Hamza, Muhammad ibn Hamza, Abu Muhammad Hassan ibn Abd Allah, Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Musa al-Riza, Imam Musa ibn Jafar. The hadiths in this work are gathered by Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Harb. The Nafidh Pasha collection in Sulaymaniyya library contains another Quranic exegesis attributed to Ja'far al-Sadiq. While Sulami provides parts of the hadiths, Sufi scholar Khargushi (died 666 A.H) provides some other in his Arais al-Bayan fi Haqaiq al-Quran Ruzbihan Baqli. The first person to have reported this collection is one of Sufi scholars Abu Abd al-Rahman Sulami (325-412 A.H) as part of his Haqaiq al-Tafsir. Initially, they were recited at Sufi circles in Kufa and Baghdad. The approach of these narratives is generally mystical. Tafsir Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq refers to a collection of hadiths reportedly narrated by Ja'far al-Sadiq (83-148 A.H) that comment on the verses of the Qur'an.

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