التساؤلات التفسيرية عند القاسمي في تفسيره محاسن التأويل: دراسة تحليلية في الجزءين الثاني والثالث

This study offers an analytical examination of the hypothetical exegetical questions posed by Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī in his tafsīr Maḥāsin al-Taʾwīl, focusing on his commentary in volumes two and three. This tafsīr was selected due to al-Qāsimī’s prominent scholarly standing in the fourteenth century AH and his distinctive methodological commitment to addressing interpretive problems with careful, disciplined reasoning. The study employs inductive and analytical–comparative approaches. It identifies two instances of hypothetical questioning in Sūrat al-Baqarah and four in Sūrat Āl ʿImrān, analyses their content and argumentative structure, and compares al-Qāsimī’s responses with those of other exegetes, offering justified preferences where appropriate. The findings indicate that al-Qāsimī deploys hypothetical questions to resolve interpretive ambiguities and to foreground coherence and interconnection among Qurʾānic statements. His method is characterized by the presentation of multiple interpretive possibilities—at times without explicit adjudication—and by frequent recourse to the formula “If it is said …” (fa-in qīla). The motivations for these questions vary, encompassing linguistic, grammatical, and rhetorical considerations.