Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 مرغيناني، علي بن أبي بكر، -1196 or 1197
Published / Created:
1523 or 1524.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 603
Image Count:
560
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil" (Selected new issues), a treatise on Islamic law according to the Ḥanafī tradition, by Burhān al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī, a prominent and prolific Ḥanafī scholar, whose "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Marghīnān, a locality in the district of Farghānah (Marghilon, Farghona, Uzbekistan), being a collection of selected "nawāzil" (new issues which require fatwás (advisory or legal opinions), from a "faqīh" (Islamic law scholar)). Copied in the year 930 of the Hijrah (1523 or 1524), by Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim. Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 4b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. "al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-al-ʻāqibah lil-muttaqīn, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūlihi al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn ajmaʻīn. Kitāb al-Ṭahārāt. al-Ṭahārah fī al-lughah ʻibārah ʻan al-naẓāfah, wa-fī al-Sharīʻah, ʻibārah ʻan ghasl aʻḍāʼ makhṣūṣah bi-ṣifah makhṣūṣah, wa-hiya anwāʻ: Ṭahārat al-ṣughrá wa-Ṭahārat al-kubrá, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-ḥadath, wa-ṭahārat al-thawb wa-al-badan, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-khabath. Bāb mā yajūzu bi-hi al-wuḍūʼ, wa-mā lā yajūz. Faṣl fī al-miyāh ...", Secundo folio: Yūsuf, annahu lam yujawwiz fī al-badan., 14.3 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 12 cm; 14lines per page., Binding: Cover missing; dark brown leather on spine., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red and large black script; some notes on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a-3b: Miscellaneous quotations on Islamic law., At the head of folio 4a: "Hādhā kitāb Mukhtārāt nawāzil, li-ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah.", At the head of folio 5a: An endowment statement: "Waqf Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-Chakmajlī.", Text ends abruptly on folio 276b, as follows: "... rawá al-Ḍaḥḥāk ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās, rḍ, annahu qāl: Yakūnu baʻd al-Nabī nūr yukanná Abū Ḥ, yaḥya dīn Allāh wa-Sunnat Rasūl Allāh ʻalá yadih. Wa-ʻan Anas, qāl, qāla Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam: Yakūnu fī ākhir al-zamān rajul yukanná bi-Abī Ḥanīfah, yaḥyá dīn Allāh taʻālá wa-Sunnatī ʻalá yadih. Thumma shurrifa bi-al-dhikr fī Ḥadīth ākhar: Muliʼa qalbuhu ʻilman wa-ḥikmah ...", Folio 277 is bound upside-down and contains miscellaneous quotations., At the head of folio 277a: "ʻAdad masāʼil hādhā al-kitāb alf wa-khamsmiʼat wa-ithnān wa-thalāthūn, wa-dhakar al-khilāf fī miʼah wa-sabʻīn, wa-lam yadhkur al-qiyās illā fī [...?].", Colophon (at the lower right margin of folio 276b): "Tammat al-kitāb, bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb, ʻalá yad ʻAbd [al-ʻabd] al-ḍaʻīf, al-muḥtāj, al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-Ghanī, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-aḥsana ilayhimā wa-ilayhi. Tārīkhuhu sanat thalāthīn wa-tisʻimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed by the help of the Abundant Giving King, by the hand of the feeble, needy and poor to Gracious God, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, may God forgive him and his parents and treat them and him favorably. Dated in the year 930 [of the Hijrah = 1523/1524]."
Subject (Name):
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197.
Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556 واعظ المكي، عبد الرؤوف بن يحيى، -1556
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
53
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Versification of al-Nuqāyah (concise encyclopedia) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. and Followed by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title, scrawled in a later hand on leaf 217 recto, confused the author with ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī., The author's full name is given in the colophon (explicit)., Kâtip Çelebi (ed. Flügel) misprinted ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz as covering fann al-tafsīr only., Kâtip Çelebi gives the author's surname as al-Zamzamī al-Makkī. Brockelmann, S II, p. 509, lists a Naẓm ʻilm al-tafsīr under ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī al-Zamzamī, d. 1568, possibly the same work. (But Hitti, 7, gives his death date as A.H. 963 / A.D. 1556)., Kâtip Çelebi gives the death date as A.H. 963 (A.D. 1555 or 1556)., According to the colophon the author was a pupil of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 1565?)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu muḥtāj al-Ghanī al-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Raʼūf najl Yaḥyá al-Wāʻiẓ: Aḥmadu man ajāda bi-al-aḥkām ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 3 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505., Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556., Zamzamī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī, -1568., and Zamzamī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Yaḥyá, -1556.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic and Islamic learning and scholarship
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717 أحمد بن علي سعيد، -1717
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 428
Image Count:
652
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on Manār al-anwār (principles of law) of ʻAbd Allāh al-Nasafī. and Beginning and end missing. Probably with lacunae
Description:
Leaves misbound; the concluding part of the incipit, with the title, appears on leaf 278 recto., Fair modern (18th century?) naskhī., and Islamic binding, in black.
Subject (Name):
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717. and Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310.
An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al-awwal) of the original work, dealing with the conquest from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf (localities in North Africa). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm of Banū Ṣāliḥ on Wednesday, 1 Shaʻbān, 1083 Hijrī (22 November, 1672). Place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah and فتوح إفريقية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. Bi-ʻawn Allāh wa-barakat Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Qāl fa-kharaja ilayhā ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, yakūnu amīr al-jaysh, wa-kharrajahu Mawlānā ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wa-huwa amīr al-Madīnah [madīnat] al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam, wa-yakūnu ʻAlī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wazīrahu. Wa-lam yuqtal aḥad baʻda mawt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Fa-kharaja bi-sittīn alf fāris min bilād al-ʻArab ...", Secundo folio: miʼat alf fāris., 14 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 14 cm; 17 lines per page., Binding: In modern brown cloth binding., In fair Maghribī script, in brown ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; the first ten leaves are in a different hand and seem to have replaced the original; catchwords. The leaves are affected by dampness, but the text is legible, some are repaired without loss of text., Text folio 1a-155b., On folios 1a an advice on generosity, written in light blue ink, bearing the name and signature of al-Sayyid al-Ṭūfī al-Mālikī, Mudīr ʻĀmm Maʻhad al-Futūḥ al-Malakī, starts with: "Kun karīman kay tanāla bi-qurbinā nūran wa-ʻilman ...", On folio 10b an invocation in a different hand., Colophon: "Wa-hādhā muqtaḍá al-sifr al-awwal min al-Mahdīyah wa-ilá Sāṭīf ... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-ikmāl ʻalá yad ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm min Banī Ṣāliḥ ... Wa-kāana al-farāgh minhu ʻashīyah yawm al-Arbaʻ awwal shahr Shaʻbān ʻām thalāth wa-thamānīn wa-alf ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This is the end of the first book dealing with [the conquest] from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf ... Praise be to God on completing its copying by ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhim of Banī Ṣāliḥ ... The copying was completed on Wednesday evening, the beginning of Shaʻbān, 1083 [22 November, 1672] ..."
ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378 عثماني، محمد بن عبد الرحمن، ناشط 1378
Published / Created:
1498.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 610
Image Count:
484
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aimmah "Mercy of the nation in the differences of the scholars." A treatise on the different opinions and interpretations of leading Islamic law scholars pertaining to legal matters, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUthmānī (active 1378), a Shāfiʻī Islamic law scholar, originally from Damascus (Syria) who became the Qāḍī (Chief Judge) of Ṣafad. The author finished writing his treatise on Tuesday, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī (9 March, 1379), in Ṣafad (Tsefat, Israel). Copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī (or al-Jaʻbarī ?) al-Hāshimī on Saturday, 12 Ramaḍān, 903 (13 May, 1498) in the city of Salānīk (Selânik, Turkey), from the copy which had been copied in Muḥarram, 855 Hijrī (February/March, 1451) by Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqriʼ al-Azʹharī (1407 or 1408-1489), a well-known Egyptian muqriʼ "Qurʼan reciter" and Qurʼanic scholar
In Arabic., Title from folio 2a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī ajzala iḥsānah wa-anzala Qurʼānah wa-bayyana fīhi qawāʻid dīnih wa-arkānah, thumma jaʻala ilá Nabīyih bayānah, wa-awḍaḥa dhālika li-aṣḥābih fī ḥayātih, thumma tafarraqū baʻda wafātih yabtaghūna faḍlan min Allāh wa-ruḍwānih ...", Secundo folio: ṭarīqah wa-aḥsan namaṭ., 12.5 x 17.5 cm; written surface: 8.5 x 12.5; 15 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather binding with flap (in 24 numbered quires), central medallion on both covers., In good naskh script; in black ink, on white paper; headings and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords. Some parts of the manuscripts are replaced in different hands: folios 1b-7b (written surface: 9 x 15 cm, 21 lines per page, in fair naskh taʻlīq script); folios 53a-54b (written surface: 9.5 x 14.5, 15 lines per page, in fair ruqʻah script)., Pages also numbered in Indian numerals: 1-474., Text folios 1b-236b (pages 1-472)., Includes an elaborate index of contents: Folios 237a-237b (pages 473-474)., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah, taʼlīf al-ʻĀlim al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī, taghammadahu Allāh bi-ruḍwānih. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn.", On the margin of page 472: "... Ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sibāhī bi-Dimashq al-maḥrūsah, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-man daʻá la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Fī tāsiʻ wa-ʻshrīn shahr al-Ḥijjah sanat arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn [year not mentioned].", Author's colophon: "Qāla muʼallifuhu, raḥimahu Allāh raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-barakatihi wa-ʻilmih, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī: Faraghtu min taʼlīf hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak fī laylah yusfiru ṣabāḥuhā ʻan nahār al-Thulāthāʼ, ḥādī ʻashar Dhī al-Qaʻdah al-ḥarām, sanata thamānīn wa-sabʻimiʼah bi-rabḍ Ṣafad, ḥamāhā Allāh taʻālá.", Translation of the author's colophon: "The author (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, the Chief Judge of Ṣafad), may God have abundant mercy upon him, and may He benefit us by his blessing and knowledge, said: I finished writing this blessed book on Tuesday morning, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī [9 March, 1379], in the city of Ṣafad, may God protect it.", Copyist colophon: "Qāla kātibuhu al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-al-dhanb wa-al-taqṣīr, al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-qadīr, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban: Katabtuhu min nuskhah waqaʻat bi-yadī bi-madīnat Salānīk min arḍ al-Rūm, maktūb fīhā: Qāla kātib hādhihi al-nuskhah bi-yadihi al-fāniyah li-nafsih wa-liman shāʼa Allāh min baʻdih, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī nazīl al-Qāhirah al-maḥrūsah, fī shahr Allāh al-Muḥarram al-ḥarām, sanat khams wa-khamsīn wa-thamānimiʼah. Wa-faraghtu min kitābatihi yawm al-Sabt baʻda al-ẓuhr bi-madīnat Salānīk al-madhkūrah fī thānī ʻashar min shahr Ramaḍān min shuhūr sanat thalāth wa-tisʻmiʼah. Allāhumma ighfir lanā wa-li-wālidaynā wa-li-mashāyikhinā wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn, yā Rabba al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the copyist colophon: "The copyist ... Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban, said: I copied this copy from a copy I saw in the city of Salānīk ... in which was written: The copyist of this book, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī, copied it for himself ... in Muḥarram, 855 [February/March, 1451]. The present copy was completed on Saturday afternoon, in the afore mentioned city of Salānīk on 12 Ramaḍān, 903 Hijrī [13 May, 1498] ..."
Subject (Name):
Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489. and ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378.
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225 بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 93
Image Count:
700
Abstract:
Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif (also called "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá" to distinguish it from the author's two other smaller treatises: al-wusṭa "the middle one" and al-ṣughrá "the little one"), a treatise on magic, alchemy, astrology, devination, Islamic occultism, the name of God and the magical use of the Arabic alphabet by Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (d. 1225), a famous sufi scholar from the city of Būnah (Bône) now ʻAnnābah (Annaba, Algeria), died in Cairo, Egypt. Name of copyist and place of copying are not mentioned; the date of copying is mentioned enigmatically in the 12th century H (18th century M).
Alternative Title:
Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá and شمس المعارف الكبرى
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī aḥāṭa bi-kull shayʼ ʻilman wa-ʻallam al-insān mā lam yaʻlam wa-ashhadu an lā ilāh illā Allāh waḥdah lā sharīka lah wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam, shahida Allāh an lā ilāh illā huwa shahādat azal, fa-min nūr hādhihi al-shahādah ightaraf al-muṣṭafūn ʻilman, fa-ifham dhālika. Wa-al-tartīb al-abadī fī al-shahādatayn al-muttaṣilatayn bi-al-malāʼikah al-kirām wa-ulī al-ʻilm fa-hādhihi shahādat al-abad, fa-man fahima sirra hātayn al-shahādatayn shāhada al-malakūtayn ...", 20 x 29 cm; written surface: 14 x 22 cm, ca. 30 lines per page., Bound., In fair naskh script, on yellowish paper; keywords and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; magic squares and illustrations; text within double red frames; catchwords., Includes table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript: "al-Faṣl al-awwal fī al-ḥurūf al-muʻjamah wa-mā yatarattabu fīhā min al-asrār wa-al-iḍmārāt. al-Faṣl al-thānī fī al-kasr wa-al-basṭ wa-tartīb al-aʻmāl min al-awqāt wa-al-sāʻāt. al-Faṣl al-thālith fī aḥkām manāzil al-qamar al-thamāniyah wa-ʻishrīn al-falakīyah ...", and Colophon: "... Wa-Allāh asʼalu an yulhima li-fahm mā ramaznāh wa-kashf mā satarnāh akh ṣadīq wa-khill ḥaqq [i.e. akhan ṣadīqan wa-khillan ḥaqqan]. Wa-fī hādhā al-qadr kifāyah li-man waffaqahu Allāh taʻālá wa-lā ḥawla wa-lā qūwata illā billāh al-ʻAlī al-ʻAẓīm wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn wa-jamīʻ al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-mursalīn wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. al-Tārīkh: Fī niṣf awwal min khums thālith min thulth awwal min niṣf thānī min suds thālith min niṣf awwal min khums thānī min ʻushr awwal min qarn thānī ʻashar min hijrat khayr al-bashar ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Tamma wa-kamula."
Subject (Name):
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Arabic alphabet, Astrology, Divination, God (Islam), Name, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, and Magic
Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459 محلي، جلال الدين محمد بن أحمد، 1389-1459
Published / Created:
1620.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 956
Image Count:
190
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A treatise on Islamic law according to the Shāfiʻī tradition by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥallī (1389-1459), an Egyptian, Shāfiʻī, Qurʼān and Islamic law scholar, from Cairo (Egypt), being a commentary on "Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn" of al-Imām al-Nawawī (Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf, 1233-1277), a well-known and prolific scholar from the village of Nawá in Ḥawrān (Syria), an authority on the Hadith and Islamic law. The present manuscript is part of the original work, covering the subjects (Bayʻ to Raḍāʻ "Sales to Breastfeeding"). Copied on Sunday, 17 Rabīʻ al-Thānī of the year 1029 of the Hijrah (22 March 1620). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title supplied by Hartford Seminary., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālih. Kitāb al-Bayʻ. Huwa ka-qawlika biʻtuka hādhā bi-kadhā, fa-yaqūlu ishtaraytuhu bi-hi, fa-yataḥaqqaqu bi-al-ʻāqid wa-al-maʻqūd ʻalayhi, wa-lahumā shurūṭ taʼtī, wa-al-ṣīghah allatī bihā yuʻqad, wa-badaʼa bihā ka-ghayrihi, li-annahā ahamm, lil-khilāf fīhā, wa-ʻabbara ʻanhā bi-al-shurūṭ, khilāf taʻbīrihi fī Sharḥ al-Muhadhdhab, ka-al-Ghazzālī ʻan al-thalāthah bi-arkān al-bayʻ, fa-qāla sharṭuhu al-ījāb, ka-biʻtuka wa-mallaktuka, wa-al-qabūl, ka-ishtaraytu wa-tamallaktu wa-qabiltu, ay, lā yaṣiḥḥu al-bayʻ bidūnihimā, li-annahu manūṭ bi-al-riḍá ...", Secundo folio: yaqbal ʻalá wafq al-ījāb., 20 x 27.5 cm; written surface: 12 x 19.5 cm; 29 lines per page., Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap; dark red leather on spine and flap., In clear medium naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the phrases of al-Minhāj in red; few notes and corrections on the margins; some wormholes on cover; catchwords., On folio 1a: An ownership statement: "Ṣāra hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak jārī fī milk ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad Jād al-Fiqī, bi-Masjid al-Ustādh Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī, fī shahr Rajab sanat 1211 [December 1796/January 1797], ʻammat barakātuh.", Colophon: "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min tamām hādhā al-rubʻ al-mubārak yawm al-Aḥad al-mubārak, sābiʻ ʻashar Rabīʻ al-Thānī, sanat 1029, tisʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf.", and Translation of the colophon: "This blessed quarter was completed on blessed Sunday, 17 Rabīʻ al-Thānī, of the year 1029 [of the Hijrah = 22 March 1620]."
Subject (Name):
Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459. and Nawawī, 1233-1277.
Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201 ابن الجوزي، أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي، حوالي 1116-1201
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
99
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Short manual of history, being an abridgment of the author's al-Muntaẓam fī multaqaṭ al-multazam and Preceded by 1 page of notes
Alternative Title:
Kitāb shudhūr al-ʻuqūd fī taʼrīkh al-ʻuhūd and كتاب شذور العقود في تأريخ العهود
Description:
Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī jalá ʻalá al-fikr mā jalá min al-ʻibar ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 2 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Geographic):
Islamic Empire
Subject (Name):
Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201.
Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr, Muḥammad ابن الحاج الكبير، محمد
Published / Created:
1598.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 195
Image Count:
288
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Treatise on Islamic magic and occultism by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī (an obscure author). Copied by ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī, on Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] (3 December, 1598). The date of the year is suspect; it has been erased and re-written in a different hand. 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007, falls on a Thursday not Monday. The manuscript was collated by Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khawjah (or al-Khūjah). Place of copying not mentioned
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 1b): "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāh, innī asʼaluka al-iʻānah ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Qāla Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr // mubtadiʼan bi-bismi al-ilāh al-qadīri. al-Ḥamdu lillāhi alladhī ʻallamanā // sirra al-kunūzi wa-bihi awlānā ... Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri // taḥqīqun fī ṣanāyiʻi al-abrāri ...", Secundo folio: Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri., 16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 16.5 cm; 21 lines per page., Binding: Brown leather binding with flap, covers embossed with central medallions, in four numbered quires., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; many commentaries and corrections on the margins; magic squares; text within double red frames; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk musammiyan [musammá] bi-Durrat al-anwār lil-fāḍil Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī, wa-huwa ʻumdah fī al-funūn al-maʻdūmah, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá. Āmīn. Bi-jāh Sayyid al-Mursalīn.", On folio 1a: A medical snuff recipe for those afflicted with the spirits of the rebellious Jinn: "Ṣifat saʻūṭ lil-muṣāb bi-aryāḥ al-jān al-mutamarridīn ...", On the margin of folio 136b, a coallation note: "Balaghah muqābalatan bi-ghāyat al-diqqah ʻalá yadinā. Kātibuhu al-faqīr Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khawjah.", On folios 137a and 138a-138b, medico-magical recipes, in a different hand., Colophon (folio 136b): "Tamma hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Ithnayn al-mubārak al-muwāfiq 4 arbaʻah khalat min shahr Jumād Awwal, sanat 1007 [?] alf wa-sabʻ sinīn [?] min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-adhká [wa-azká] al-taḥīyah wa-sallama taslīman kathīran dāyiman abadan ilá Yawm al-Dīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. ʻAlá yad kātibihi al-faqīr ilá Allāh ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Tamm. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb wa-ilayhi al-marjiʻ wa-al-maʼāb. Wa-ilá Allāh tarjiʻ al-umūr. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam.", and Translation of the colophon: "This book was concluded on blessed Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] of the Hijrah of the Prophet ... Copied by ... ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī ..."