Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni

Muhammad 'Ali al-Sabuni (1 January, 1930 – 19 March, 2021) was a prominent Syrian Hanafi scholar. He is probably best known for his Qur'anic exegesis entitled Safwat al-Tafasir (The Elite of Interpretations). He died at the age of 91 in Turkey's Yalova province.

Works Sabuni authored dozens of works in various sciences including:

Ṣafwat al-Tafāsīr , his most well-known work which condenses and presents conclusions from various classical Sunni Qur'anic exegeses. Al-Mawārīth fī al-Sharī‘ah al-Islāmiyyah fī Ḍaw’ al-Kitāb wa-l-Sunnah , a juridical work on Islamic inheritance laws. Al-Zawāj al-Islāmī al-Mubakkir Sa‘ādah wa-Ḥaṣānah , a juridical work addressing contemporary concerns regarding marriage in an attempt to encourage adults to marry earlier. Al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah al-Muṭahharah Qism min al-Waḥy al-Ilāhī al-Munzal , a polemical work addressing criticisms about the authority of the sunnah and hadith raised by hadith-skeptical modernists and Qur'anists. Al-Tibyān fī ‘Ulūm al-Qur’ān , a collection of lecture notes on Qur'anic sciences covering topics such as the revelation, compilation, and exegetical tradition of the Qur'an. Āmantu bi-llāh , a creedal work presenting various proof texts in support of orthodox Sunni positions on Islamic eschatalogical theology. Rawā’i‘ al-Bayān fī Tafsīr Āyāt al-Aḥkām Sharḥ Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn , a commentary on the hadith work Riyad al-Salihin by al-Nawawi. Qabs min Nūr al-Qur’ān al-Karīm Mawsū‘at al-Fiqh al-Shar‘ī al-Muyassar Tafsīr al-Wāḍiḥ al-Muyassar Al-Mahdī al-Nabawī al-Ṣaḥīḥ fī Ṣalāt al-Tarāwīḥ Al-Nubuwwah wa-l-Anbiyā’ Mawqif al-Sharī‘ah al-Gharrā’ min Nikāḥ al-Mut‘ah Risālah fī Ḥukm al-Taṣwīr Al-Mahdī wa-Ashrāṭ al-Sā‘ah Al-Shubuhāt wa-l-Abāṭīl ḥawl Ta‘addud Zawjat al-Rasūl Muktasar tafsir Ibn Kathir, (in Arabic: مختصر تفسير ابن كثير). From Treasures Of The Sunnah (In Arabic: من كنوز السنة).