Keywords: Asatir al-Awwalin, Myth, Qur’anic Narrative, Tafsir al-Manar
Myth in most of people interpreted as fairy tales or stories of the past, which often do not have a reference that can be justified academically. This kind of understanding that led to the myth of a negative stigma in the eyes of society; is as something synonymous with things irrational and superstitious without them knowing that the Al-Qur'an also a myth recognized. Term Asa@tir al-Awwali@n is translated with "fairy tale people earlier Thus the story as one of the most important components in the Qur'a@n because most of the contents of al-Qur'a@n load on the story. The most important in this discussion is not whether or not divulging story historical but moral values that can be drawn from these stories, although the story is not known for sure never happens or not. Muhammad Abduh as the main character in the author interpretation of al-Manar is a pioneer that looked at the stories in the Qur'an is not a story or narrative history. However, moral values and Ibrah taken from the story.
Based on this background, the author formulated two issues namely; First, How does the view of Asa@tir al-Awwali@n in the holy Qur'an. Secondly, how is the interpretation of the (Asa@tir al-Awwali@n) According to Tafsir al-Manar.
To answer the problem formulation, data collection is done by means of the documentation used by the author. Other data collection methods, library research, namely gather from the data based on books, dictionaries, scientific journals, and others. This study uses a literary approach, qualitative data processing using descriptive analysis. After gather from the data, then Asatir al-Awwalin analyzed using tafsir al-Manar.
From these results it can be concluded that: In the study of al-Qur’a@n interpretation Asa@t{i@r al-Awwali@n have two different meanings. First, Asa@t{i@r al-Awwali@n addressed to al-Qur'a@n as a whole. It's as allegations made by one of Quraish he is Nadlr bin Harith and Quraish during the revelation of al-Qur'a@n, namely that al-Qur’a@n as a whole is a tale of those who passed was retold by the Prophet Muhammad. Second, Asa@t{i@r al-Awwali@n that leads to the mythical elements in the stories of the Qur'an. That the stories of the Qur’an are not only entirely true historical basis but also many of them are just tales, news and news from the past that did not really happen. In tafsir al-Mana@r, there are only two verses about Asa@t{i@r al-Awwali@n who interpreted the letter al-An'a@m verse 26 and Sura al-Anfa@l verse 31. From the interpretation of Rashid's approval of the two verses, we can conclude that the allegation of Quraish which states al-Qur'a@n is Asa@t{i@r al-Awwali@n based on two things. First, need to protect their religion and beliefs of destruction. Most of them have a good understanding of al-Qur’an were read out, but proud to recognize this truth brought Muhammad. This is because they are worried that the acceptance of al-Qur’a@n would destroy religion they have built for so long, and confirmed their territory in the land of Mecca. Second, their inability to turn away from what they believe before. The religion brought by the ancestors.