Shaykh 'Abdurrahmân Ibn Nâsir As-Sa'dî is a recognized contemporary scholar, born in 1889 (1307H) and died in 1957 (1376H) in Saudi Arabia. He was the author of a large number of works useful to the community, the best known of which is his exegesis of the Qur'ân: Taysîr Al-Karîm Ar-Rahmân fî Tafsîr Kalâm Al-Mannân, better known under the name of Tafsîr As-Sa'dî, which he wrote in the year 1342H, when he was 35 years old, and which he completed at the age of 37. This Tafsîr was and remains a reference among a large number of scholars.