Reading Tafsir Books Without Ritual Purity

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible for me to read from Tafsir al-Jalalayn without being in a state of ritual purity?

The Shaykh:
There is no harm in the tafsir; you may read the tafsir without being in a state of ritual purity, because the tafsir is not the Qur'an, it is the words of the commentator. Yes.

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh.

The Shaykh:
Holding the book while not in a state of ritual purity: is it a mushaf or is it not a mushaf? That is his intention. If the Qur'an is a full page with its boundaries and the tafsir is in the margins of a mushaf, it is not permissible to touch it except while in a state of ritual purity. However, if the Qur'an is separated from the tafsir, like Tafsir Ibn Kathir, then it is permissible to read it while not in a state of ritual purity, because you are not holding the mushaf, you are holding a tafsir.