Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390 ابن عباد، محمد بن إبراهيم، 1332 or 1333-1390
Published / Created:
1717.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 489
Image Count:
464
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʻalīyah bi-Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" (also called "Sharḥ al-Nafazī ʻalá matn al-Sakandarī"), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Ḥimyarī al-Nafazī al-Rundī (1332 or 1333-1390.), a Ṣūfī and scholar from the city of Rundah (Ronda, Má́laga, Spain), who journeyed in cities of al-Maghrib and resided in Fès (Morocco) where he assumed the position of "khaṭīb" (preacher) at Jāmiʻ al-Qarawīyīn, and died there, being a commentary on "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah", a collection of Sufi and mystical aphorisms of Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Sakandarī (died 1309 in Cairo), an Egyptian Shādhilī and Ṣūfī scholar and author, an ardent opponent of the well-known Ḥanbalī scholar Ibn Taymīyah (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328). Copied on Thursday, 19 Shaʻbān, 1129 of the Hijrah (29 July, 1717). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam, Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah, كتاب شرح الحكم, and شرح الحكم العطائية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir. Qāla al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá, al-muʻtamid fī ghufrān dhunūbihi ʻalá Allāh taʻālá, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Nafazī al-ʻArsawī [?], laṭafa Allāh taʻālá bi-hi wa-raḥimahu wa-ghafara la-hu. Āmīn: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-munfarid bi-al-ʻaẓamah wa-al-jalāl, al-mutawaḥḥid bi-istiḥqāq nuʻūt al-kamāl, al-munazzah ʻan al-shurakāʼ wa-al-nuẓarāʼ wa-al-amthāl, al-mutaqaddis ʻan simāh [simāt] al-ḥadath min al-taghyīr wa-al-intiqāl wa-al-ittiṣāl wa-al-infiṣāl, ʻālim al-ghayb wa-al-shahādah, al-kabīr al-mutaʻāl, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-hādī min al-ḍalāl ...", Secundo folio: ḥaqāʼiquhā illā bi-al-talaqqī., 15.5 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 15.5 cm; 21 lines per page., Binding: In cardboard binding (in 23 numbered quires), In fair naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; with the phrases of "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam li-Ibn ʻAbbād, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-hi wa-al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn.", On folio 1a: Two verses of poetry, quoted from "Kitāb Ḥusn al-tanabbuh li-mā warada fī al-tashabbuh" of al-Najm al-Ghazzī (Ghazzī, Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1570-1651), On folio 1a: Two verses of "Mawwāl [a form of popular folk poetry], li-Sayyidī al-ʻārif billāh wa-Sayyid al-ʻĀrifīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, quddisa sirruhu.", On folio 1a: Ownership statement: "Āla ilá nawbat al-ḥaqīr Muḥṣṭafá al-Ḥalabī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAraḍī al-Ḥusaynī al-Muṭṭalibī, jammala Allāh aḥwālahu wa-min ʻatharātihi aqālahu. Fī 12 Sh. [Shʻbān/Shawwāl], 1269 [of the Hijrah = 21 May 1853 or 19 July, 1853].", On folio 1a: Five illegible ownership statements and two illegible seals., On folio 228a: A reader's statement: "Qad tammat qirāʼat hādhā al-kitāb al-ʻadhb al-mustaṭāb bayna al-ʻishāʼayn fī Jāmiʻ Banī Umayyah bi-Dimashq al-maḥmīyah, wa-dhālika laylat al-Khamīs al-thāniyah ʻasharī shahr Jumādá al-Thānī, sanat arbaʻah wa-sabʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf [28 January, 1858]. Katabahu al-faqīr Sulaymān ibn Jaʻfar Āghā, ʻufiya [ʻanh].", On folio 228b: A reader's note: "Naẓara wa-ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb afqar al-ʻibād wa-aḥwajuhum ilá al-Malik al-Jawwād, al-ʻabd al-musīʼ Saʻīd ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhā ibn Yāsīn al-Qudsī, nahār al-khamsīn [?] al-Khamīs alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat iḥdā [iḥdá] wa-sittīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [Thursday, [?]1748]." Followed by invocation by him in seven verses of poetry., Colophon (folio 228a): "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-Khamīs al-mubārak, tāsiʻ ʻashar Shaʻbān al-mubārak, min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼah wa-tisʻah wa-ʻishrīn min al-Hijrah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām. M.", and Translation of the colophon: "This blessed copy was completed on blessed Thursday, 19 blessed Shaʻbān 1129 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [29 July, 1717], may the best prayer and peace be upon Him."
Subject (Name):
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390. and Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1309.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Mysticism, Shādhilīyah, and Sufism
