Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839–923 CE, 224–310 AH) was a Sunni polymath of the Abbasid era: Quran commentator, historian, jurist and theologian. He was born in Amol, Tabaristan (in present-day Iran), travelled to study in Rayy, Basra, Kufa, Syria and Egypt, and settled in Baghdad, where he taught and wrote until his death.
His Jami' al-Bayan 'an Ta'wil Ay al-Qur'an, known as Tafsir al-Tabari, is the earliest large commentary to survive in full. It gathers the reports of the Companions and their successors verse by verse and weighs the different interpretations, and later commentators, including Ibn Kathir and al-Qurtubi, drew on it heavily. His Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk (History of the Prophets and Kings) begins with creation and Adam and is a key source for early Islamic history. He also founded a school of law, the Jariri madhhab, which did not survive.
He died in Baghdad in 923 at about 84.
In the chat on Quran 2:31, his tafsir is cited for the different readings of "all the names" and for how the test showed the limits of the angels' knowledge.
Sources: Tafsir al-Tabari on Quran 2:31 (Quran.com) · Wikipedia