16
questions, as Abū Muhammad Ismāʿīl ibn … did in his commentary.
As for that number, it is the number covered by Abū al-Maʿālī and Abū Ishāq in their respective works on juristic disagreement, and by al-Sharīf Abū Jaʿfar and Asʿad al-Mayhanī
مَسْأَلَة كَمَا فعل أَبُو مُحَمَّد إِسْمَاعِيل بن فِي تَعْلِيقه
وَأما ذَلِك الْمِقْدَار فَهُوَ الَّذِي يصفه أَبُو الْمَعَالِي وَأَبُو إِسْحَاق فِي خلافهما والشريف أَبُو جَعْفَر وأسعد الميهني