Connections

A tafsir technique — cross-reference mapping across all cached commentaries Technique

Which verses do the mufassirun cite when commenting on a given ayah? Connections maps the cross-references inside every cached tafsir entry, then groups them by target verse so you can see consensus, isolated mentions, and the heaviest-citing commentators all at once.

11,461 tafsir entries with xrefs 42,305 total cross-references leaderboards last computed 2026-06-14 20:37:44 UTC

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Auto-picked from the most-connected source ayahs below. These are the verses whose commentaries point outward most often.

  1. Q 36:30 (Ya Sin) 108 outbound refs 2 mufassirun
    Connections 108 single-source 2 commentators

    Multi-source connections

    No verses on this ayah are cited by 2 or more commentators using numeric S:A notation. All extracted references come from a single source's commentary.

    Single-source mentions (108) cited by only one commentator

    By commentator who cites how many verses on this ayah

    Note: these connections are extracted from numeric S:A references inside the commentary text and are therefore biased toward mufassirun who use that notation. Prose-style references (e.g. "Surat al-Baqarah verse 30") will be added later, which should surface additional multi-source consensus.

  2. Q 50:1 (Qaf) 72 outbound refs 6 mufassirun
    Connections 12 multi-source 11 single-source 6 commentators

    Multi-source connections cited by 2+ commentators

    Single-source mentions (11) cited by only one commentator
    By commentator who cites how many verses on this ayah

    Note: these connections are extracted from numeric S:A references inside the commentary text and are therefore biased toward mufassirun who use that notation. Prose-style references (e.g. "Surat al-Baqarah verse 30") will be added later, which should surface additional multi-source consensus.

  3. Q 2:144 (al-Baqarah) 69 outbound refs 6 mufassirun
    Connections 4 multi-source 52 single-source 6 commentators

    Multi-source connections cited by 2+ commentators

    Single-source mentions (52) cited by only one commentator

    By commentator who cites how many verses on this ayah

    Note: these connections are extracted from numeric S:A references inside the commentary text and are therefore biased toward mufassirun who use that notation. Prose-style references (e.g. "Surat al-Baqarah verse 30") will be added later, which should surface additional multi-source consensus.

  4. Q 3:103 (al-Imran) 61 outbound refs 6 mufassirun
    Connections 1 multi-source 56 single-source 6 commentators

    Multi-source connections cited by 2+ commentators

    Single-source mentions (56) cited by only one commentator

    By commentator who cites how many verses on this ayah

    Note: these connections are extracted from numeric S:A references inside the commentary text and are therefore biased toward mufassirun who use that notation. Prose-style references (e.g. "Surat al-Baqarah verse 30") will be added later, which should surface additional multi-source consensus.

  5. Q 1:6 (al-Fatihah) 60 outbound refs 7 mufassirun
    Connections 3 multi-source 45 single-source 7 commentators

    Multi-source connections cited by 2+ commentators

    Single-source mentions (45) cited by only one commentator

    By commentator who cites how many verses on this ayah

    Note: these connections are extracted from numeric S:A references inside the commentary text and are therefore biased toward mufassirun who use that notation. Prose-style references (e.g. "Surat al-Baqarah verse 30") will be added later, which should surface additional multi-source consensus.

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Whole-corpus rankings, recomputed every 24 hours.

Top mufassirun

by total outbound cross-references

  1. Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged) 24,206 refs 2,970 unique
  2. Tafsir al-Tabari 6,787 refs 2,620 unique
  3. Ma'arif-ul-Quran 5,155 refs 1,682 unique
  4. Kashani Tafsir 2,362 refs 679 unique
  5. Al-Qushairi Tafsir 2,190 refs 609 unique
  6. Kashf Al-Asrar Tafsir 869 refs 514 unique
  7. Tafseer Al Saddi 365 refs 365 unique
  8. Tafsir al-Tustari 193 refs 179 unique
  9. Tazkirul Quran 147 refs 41 unique
  10. Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas 21 refs 20 unique
  11. Tafsir Muyassar 9 refs 8 unique
  12. Tafseer Al-Baghawi 1 refs 1 unique

Most-cited target ayahs

verses other commentaries point at most

  1. Q 54:55 (al-Qamar) 88 citations 4 mufassirun
  2. Q 16:36 (an-Nahl) 71 citations 2 mufassirun
  3. Q 5:54 (al-Ma`idah) 69 citations 4 mufassirun
  4. Q 18:47 (al-Kahf) 69 citations 4 mufassirun
  5. Q 52:21 (at-Tur) 66 citations 2 mufassirun
  6. Q 30:27 (ar-Rum) 66 citations 2 mufassirun
  7. Q 40:60 (Ghafir) 62 citations 5 mufassirun
  8. Q 17:1 (al-Isra`) 61 citations 5 mufassirun
  9. Q 7:54 (al-A`raf) 59 citations 6 mufassirun
  10. Q 7:143 (al-A`raf) 59 citations 6 mufassirun
  11. Q 6:96 (al-An`am) 59 citations 3 mufassirun
  12. Q 56:89 (al-Waqi`ah) 54 citations 4 mufassirun
  13. Q 18:49 (al-Kahf) 54 citations 3 mufassirun
  14. Q 2:255 (al-Baqarah) 53 citations 6 mufassirun
  15. Q 17:44 (al-Isra`) 53 citations 5 mufassirun
  16. Q 40:51 (Ghafir) 53 citations 2 mufassirun
  17. Q 31:24 (Luqman) 53 citations 2 mufassirun
  18. Q 6:91 (al-An`am) 52 citations 7 mufassirun
  19. Q 10:96 (Yunus) 52 citations 1 mufassirun
  20. Q 26:214 (ash-Shu`ara`) 51 citations 4 mufassirun

Most-connected source ayahs

verses whose commentaries point outward most

  1. Q 36:30 (Ya Sin) 108 refs 2 mufassirun
  2. Q 50:1 (Qaf) 72 refs 6 mufassirun
  3. Q 2:144 (al-Baqarah) 69 refs 6 mufassirun
  4. Q 3:103 (al-Imran) 61 refs 6 mufassirun
  5. Q 1:6 (al-Fatihah) 60 refs 7 mufassirun
  6. Q 7:155 (al-A`raf) 58 refs 5 mufassirun
  7. Q 14:17 (Ibrahim) 58 refs 2 mufassirun
  8. Q 2:29 (al-Baqarah) 56 refs 6 mufassirun
  9. Q 39:22 (az-Zumar) 54 refs 6 mufassirun
  10. Q 2:48 (al-Baqarah) 53 refs 5 mufassirun
  11. Q 14:15 (Ibrahim) 53 refs 2 mufassirun
  12. Q 2:142 (al-Baqarah) 52 refs 4 mufassirun
  13. Q 43:82 (az-Zukhruf) 52 refs 2 mufassirun
  14. Q 43:83 (az-Zukhruf) 52 refs 2 mufassirun
  15. Q 43:84 (az-Zukhruf) 52 refs 2 mufassirun
  16. Q 43:85 (az-Zukhruf) 52 refs 2 mufassirun
  17. Q 43:86 (az-Zukhruf) 52 refs 2 mufassirun
  18. Q 43:87 (az-Zukhruf) 52 refs 2 mufassirun
  19. Q 14:16 (Ibrahim) 52 refs 2 mufassirun
  20. Q 1:4 (al-Fatihah) 51 refs 6 mufassirun