He reviews the other sciences of tafsīr such as the reasons of revelation (asbāb an-nuzūl), abrogating and abrogated āyāt (an-nāsikhwa’l-mansūkh) after discussing the reality of abrogation (naskh), he corrects the newer scholars’ over-emphasis on the circumstances of revelation and the unusual words and phrases of the Qur’ān (gharā’ib al-Qur’ān). He concludes by detailing the extraordinary and miraculous aspects of the Qurān.

ShāhWaliyyullāh was born on 4th Shawwāl 1114 AH/10th February 1703 CE in northern India. He was descended from ‘Umar ibn al - Khaṭṭāb and was thus Qurayshī. He had a traditional education in all the classical sciences from his father and other scholars in India before journeying to Makkah from where he returned in 1145 AH/1733 CE with excellent knowledge of all the major works of ḥadīth. He dedicated the rest of his life to teaching in Madrasah Raḥīmiyyah and to writing widely on all the known Islamic sciences as well as working tirelessly for the reform of Indian society and renewal of dīn. He died in 1176 AH.

Muqaddama fī Uṣūl al-Tafsīr– An Introduction to the Sciences of Tafsīr is a concise yet comprehensive work on the principles of Tafsīr. The main approach and emphasis of Imam ibn Taymiyyah is the authenticity and reliability of exegesis and the different approaches one must undertake to ensure accuracy in transmitting the meaning of the Qurān. He emphasises the association of the meaning transmitted from the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to the following generation, especially the companions and their differences as well as the reliable amongst the next generation. He presents many arguments to provide weight to this approach and comments about other tafāsīr and mufassirīnas well as sects such as the Muʿtazali and the Shīʿā. The book concludes with the subject of transmission of the Ahl al-Kitāb and the most reliable mufassirīn amongst the Tabiʿīn.

Taqī ad-Dīn Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah was born in 661 AH/ 1263Harran, Sultanate of Rum and died 728 AH/ 1328 (aged 64–65) in Damascus, Sham. He was a Sunni Muslim theologian, jurisconsult, logician, and reformer member of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence. He was viewed as a minority in his own time, however, in the centuries that followed, Ibn Taymiyyah became one of the most influential medieval writers in contemporary Islam, where his interpretations of the Qur'an and the Sunnah and his rejection of some aspects of classical Islamic tradition has considerable influence. He was a religious scholar and a political activist. He left a considerable body of work, ranging from 350 according to his student, Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya to 500 according to his student al-Dhahabi. His scholarly works are described as immense with a broad scope and its contents "turn the marks of brilliant insights hastily jotted down."