| Sumario: | This study examines the passages in Jāmi' al-bayān 'an taṬwīl āy al-Qur'ān, the quranic commentary of Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-'abarī (d. 310/923), that address apparent violations of the ordinary rules of grammar and style for the sake of end rhyme. Analysis shows that al-'abarī assigns importance to end rhyme in the Quran and recognizes the effects that it has on the text. The term he uses for this quranic phenomenon is al-tawfīq bayna ruūs al-āyāt "making the verse-final words match," which justifies acceptable variations of the ordinary rules of Arabic for the sake of end rhyme. This differs from the term for poetic license in poetry, 'arūra "necessity," to which al-'abarī also refers in several passages of his commentary. In al-'abarī's view, the latter concept rather serves to justify the use of forms and structures in poetry that do not meet the standard of eloquent Arabic speech and so would not occur in the Quran.
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