Muhammad Quraish Shihab is one of the popular mufassir in Indonesia who is famous with his Tafsir Al-Mishbah. He is also a pioneer of interpretation of al-Qur’ān with the thematic (mauḍū’iy) method. His thoughts used by most of Indonesian people, especially in academic circles. Almost all of his works are very famous and most highly respected. People learn it a lot and make it as a reference. One of the interesting works of M. Quraish Shihab is Tafsīr al-Lubāb. This Tafsīr used Ijmāly method, as him said in the introduction of Tafsīr al-Lubāb. Ijmāly method used by him is a little different with the method used by other mufassir, namely in terms of structure and systematic of writing. Although slightly different, but when we see in the perspective of ‘Ulūm al-Qur'ān it will be possible that the criteria of al-Lubāb method is qualify. If we see in the perspective of hermeneutic, what is the method used by him still fulfilled the criteria? In this study, the author focuses on the analysis of ijmāly method structure in Tafsīr al-Lubāb and then compare the method with hermeneutic approach, which is in the hermeneutic perspective, there are some criterias to understand the text. The author tries to compare the ijmāly method of Tafsīr al-Lubāb with hermeneutical approach. After compared both of that method, the author analyze it and make a conclution how is ijmāly method according to hermeneutical perspective.