A comparative study of interpretative methods in conciliating purity and wrong of the prophet Dawood

Commentator‘s interpretative methods is known as one origin for Shiite and Sunni difference in Quran commentaries. Commentators, when interpreting theǀĞƌƐĞƐ ϮϮ-Ϯϲ ŽĨ ĐŚĂƉƚĞƌ ^ƵĂĚ͕ ĚŝīĞƌ ŝŶ ĐŽŶĐŝůŝĂƟŶŐ prophet Dawood‘s purity and wrong. Surveying Shiite and Sunni‘s commentary methods comparatively, the paper has intended to study the origins of commentator‘s differences. To do so, some Shiite and Sunni‘s commentaries including Shiite commentaries Al-Tebyan, Noor al-Thaqalayn and Al-Mizan and Sunni‘s Jami al-Bayan, Mafatih al-Ghaib, Ruh al-Ma’ani and Al-Munir have been studied with regard to the subject. It has been proved that Al-Mizan, taking the method of Quran to Quran commentary and using reasonable and theological proofs and traditions as supporter, has presented the solution best.