Editing Tafsir (section)

=== Modern tafsir ===
By the time of the next generations ensuing the sahabah, scholars in the age of the successors (''[[tabi'in]]'') started using a wide range of sources for ''tafsir''. The whole of the Quran is interpreted, and narrations are separated from ''tafsir'' into separate books and literature. Grammatical explanations and historical data are preserved within these books; personal opinions are recorded, whether accepted or rejected. During this time, a whole range of schools of ''tafsir'' came into existence in different scholastic centers, including [[Mecca]], [[Medina]] and [[Iraq]]. Iraqi schools of ''tafsir'' came to be known for an approach relied on personal judgment aside from the transmitted reports, and [[Jewish apocrypha|Jewish apocryphal reports]] were also widely employed.<ref name="Jo" /><ref name=":7" /><ref name=":6" /> Notable compilers on this age including [[Sufyan al-Thawri]].<ref name="Jo" />

Until this age, ''tafsir'' had been transmitted orally and had not been collected independently in a book, rather, they had been gathered by ''[[muhaddithun]]'' (lit. scholars of hadith) in their hadith books, under the topic of ''tafsir'', along with other narrations of Muhammad.<ref>Muhsin Demirci, Tefsir Usulü, 120</ref> This indicates that ''tafsir'', in its formative age, used to be a special domain within hadith. Widening of the scope of ''tafsir'' and emergence of ''mufassirun'' in the age of the successors lead to the development of an independent discipline of ''tafsir''.<ref name="Jo" />
[[File:Grand Ayatollahs Qom فتوکلاژ، آیت الله های ایران-قم 02.jpg|thumb|220px|upright|[[Marja'|Grand Ayatollah]]s of [[Qom]]; The high class scholars in Iran who have the authority [[Ijtihad|to interpret the Quran]] in [[Shiism|Shia Islam]]<ref>Sociology of religions: perspectives of Ali Shariati (2008) Mir Mohammed Ibrahim</ref> used assertive titles such as [[Hujjat al-Islam]], Ayatollah, Ayatollah Al-Uzma and gained   [[walayah|tutelage over people and the administration]]<ref name="Newman in Meri 2006 734">{{harvnb| Newman|2006|p=734}}</ref>]]