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ibn ʿabbās said, "tafsīr is of four kinds: a kind that can be known from the language of the arabs, a kind that every muslim should know, a kind that only the scholars know, and a kind that only God knows."

al-ṭabarī, jāmiʿ al-bayān, vi, 41 (damascus 1417/1997)