This article reflects on some methodological issues in the study of tafsīr, taking the dissemination of the ideas of Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) on the non-perpetuity of the chastisement of Hell in Sufi tafsīr as a case study. I show that Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas on the issue were hardly adopted by later Sufi commentators on the Qurʾān. I investigate whether just as its exoteric counterpart, and despite the claim of Sufi tafsīr being rooted in ‘experience’ and thus being more ‘original’, Sufi tafsīr is ‘genealogical’ and is thus more conservative in its content. Although the Sufi genre of tafsīr generally seems more willing to include Sufi sayings and ideas from outside the boundaries of the genre, this does not make it adaptive of the non-mainstream ideas of Ibn ʿArabī on Hell proposed outside the genre. This brings up some considerations on the use and usability of tafsīr as a source of intellectual history.

本文以传播伊本·阿拉比（卒于638/1240年）关于苏菲·塔菲的地狱的永久化的思想为例，对塔菲的研究中的一些方法论问题进行了反思。我表明，伊本·阿拉比（IbnʿArabī）关于这个问题的想法几乎没有被后来的苏非评论家对古兰经的采用。我调查了是否像苏菲塔夫那样具有公开意义，并且尽管苏菲塔夫斯宣称自己扎根于“经验”并因此更加“原始”，但苏菲塔夫斯还是“家谱”的，因此在内容上更为保守。尽管塔夫苏尔的苏菲派类型通常似乎更愿意将苏菲派的说法和观点包括在该派别的边界之外，但这并不能使其适应于伊本·阿拉比在地狱之外提出的关于地狱的非主流思想。