A biography of Saint Ephrem (Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373) translated into Arabic from an unidentified Syriac original by Buṭrus Rizq al-ʻAndārī, a student of Madrasat Mārī Yūḥannā Mārūn (Madrasat Dayr Mār Yūḥannā Mārūn, Kafr Ḥayy, Lebanon) on 17 January, 1895. Probably the translator's autograph.
Alternative Title:
حياة القديس ماري أفرام السرياني : مخطوطة.
Description:
15 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 16 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Unbound; 1 quire (49 numbered pages)., Colophon: "Qad tammat qiṣṣat ḥayāt al-Qiddīs al-ʻaẓīm wa-al-ṭūbāwī Mārī Afrām al-Suryānī wa-al-muʻallim al-Ilāhī bi-qalam mutarjimihā min al-lughah al-Suryānīyah ilá al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah Buṭrus Rizq al-ʻAndārī aḥad talāmidhat Madrasat Mārī Yūḥannā Mārūn wa-kāna dhālika fī al-dayr al-madhkūr fa-yarjū ghaḍḍ al-naẓar min kull labīb wa-adīb ʻammā faraṭa minhu al-khaṭaʼ siwá kāna min al-imlāʼ am min tarkīb al-jumal fa-subḥān man huwa maʻṣūm faqaṭ. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min hādhā al-kutayyib fī 17 K 2 [Kānūn al-Thānī] sanat 1895 Masīḥīyah. Fa-Allāh yuʻṭīnā an naʻīsha ka-hādhā al-Qiddīs al-ʻaẓīm wa-natamaththal wa-naqtadī bi-ḥayātihi al-mamlūwah qadāsah. Fa-hādhā mā aṭlubuhu wa-atamannāh bi-shafāʻat Sayyidat al-ʻĀlamīn wa-bi-ṣalāt al-ṭūbāwī Mārī Afrām wa-Mārī Mārūn wa-Mārī Yūḥannā Mārūn wa-jamīʻ al-qiddīsīn. Āmīn.", In fair ruqʻah script, in black ink on aging white paper., Incipit: "Ḥayāt al-Qiddīs Mārī Afrām al-Suryānī. Inna al-Qiddīs Afrām kāna min jins al-Suryān ayḍan min madīnat Nuṣaybīn wa-ummuhu min madīnat Umīd wa-abūhu kāna ḥabran fī Nuṣaybīn yakhdumu ṣanam ismuhu Īnīl dhāka alladhī hadamahu al-Malik al-ẓāfir Badbiyānūn fī ayyām al-Malik Qusṭanṭīn al-ẓāfir al-muʼmin al-ḥaqīqī ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: fa-al-niʻmah al-ilāhīyah raʼafathu., Title from caption., Translation of the colophon: "The biography of the great blessed and divine teacher Saint Ephrem the Syrian is completed by its translator from Syriac into Arabic Buṭrus Rizq al-ʻAndārī, a student of the School of Mārī Yūḥannā Mārūn at the mentioned monastery. He requests from any intelligent and learned reader to disregard any mistake in spelling or sentence structure. Glory be to the Only Infallible One. This booklet was concluded on 17 January 1895. May God grant us to live according to the example of this great saint and emulate his holy life. This is what I am asking and hope for through the intercession of Our Lady and the prayers of the blessed Saint Ephrem, Saint Mārūn, Saint Yūḥannā Mārūn and all the saints. Amen.", البداية: "حيوة القديس ماري أفرام السرياني. إن القديس أفرام كان من جنس السريان أيضًا من مدينة نصيبين وأمه من مدينة اميد وأبوه كان حبرًا في نصيبين يخدم صنم اسمه إينيل ذاك الذي هدمه الملك الظافر بدبيانون في أيام الملك قسطنطين الظافر المؤمن الحقيقي ...", الخاتمة: "قد تمت قصة حيوة القديس العظيم والطوباوي ماري أفرام السرياني والمعلم الإلهي بقلم مترجمها من اللغة السريانية إلى اللغة العربية بطرس رزق العنداري أحد تلامذة مدرسة ماري يوحنا مارون وكان ذلك في الدير المذكور فيرجو غض النظر من كل لبيب وأديب عما فرط منه الخطأ سوى كان من الإملاء أم من تركيب الجمل فسبحان من هو معصوم فقط. وكان الفراغ من هذا الكتيب في 17 ك 2 [كانون الثاني] سنة 1895 مسيحية. فالله يعطينا أن نعيش كهذا القديس العظيم ونتمثل ونقتدي بحياته المملوة قداسة. فهذا ما أطلبه وأتمناه بشفاعة سيدة العالمين وبصلوة الطوباوي ماري أفرام وماري مارون وماري يوحنا مارون وجميع القديسين. آمين.", and بداية الورقة الثانية: "فالنعمة الإلهية رأفته.
Subject (Name):
ʻAndārī, Buṭrus Rizq., Ephraem,--Syrus, Saint,--303-373., Madrasat Dayr Mār Yūḥannā Mārūn, Kafr Ḥayy., عنداري، بطرس رزق، مترجم., and مدرسة دير مار يوحنا مارون، كفر حي.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Syriac Christian saints--Biography.
Fazmawī, ʻAlī Riḍā ibn Yūnus, active 1904. فزموي، علي رضا بن يونس، ناشط 1904.
Published / Created:
1904
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 605
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A scholarly certificate "Ijāzah" given by the Muslim scholar ʻAlī Riḍā ibn Yūnus al-Jānakī al-Fātsawī al-Fazmawī (could not be identified) to his student al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAlī al-Bāzārjīfī (could not be identified). In the "Ijāzah" the teacher enumerates the subjects studied and authorizes his student to teach them. He gives the student advice on how to teach, how to treat his students and how to conduct himself to achieve the ultimate goal, God's favor and acceptance. The teacher also mentions in the "Ijāzah" the teachers from whom he received his learning and the unbroken chain of scholars up to the very first master. The "Ijāzah" is in the handwriting of the teacher and bears his stamp. It was issued on 5 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 1321 Hijrī (23 January, 1904).
Alternative Title:
Ijāzat ʻAlī Riḍā ibn Yūnus al-Jānakī al-Fātsawī al-Fazmawī ilá tilmīdhihi al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAlī al-Bāzārjīfī and إجازة من علي رضا بن يونس الجانكي الفاتسوي الفزموي إلى تلميذه الحاج عبد القادر بن علي البازارجيفي : مخطوطة / علي رضا بن يونس الجانكي الفاتسوي الإستانبولي.
Description:
14 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 7 x 12 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Contemporary blue cloth binding with central medallion; the manuscript is loose within the binding., Colophon: "Hādhihi ṣūrat ijāzatī wa-sanadī fī al-Kitāb wa-al-Sunnah fī naqlīyāt al-ʻulūm wa-ʻaqlīyātihā lil-akh fī Allāh al-ṣāliḥ al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAlī al-Bāzārjīfī, wa-anā al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-ghanī ʻAlī Riḍā ibn Yūnus al-Jānakī al-Fātsawī mawlidan wa-al-Istānbūlī mawṭinan, fī al-yawm al-khāmis min Dhī al-Qaʻdah iḥdá wa-ʻishrīn wa-thalāthmiʼah wa-alf, ʻalá al-Nabī ṣalawāt Allāh alf alf. [Seal of] ʻAlī Riḍā 1312.", In clear naskh taʻlīq script, in black ink, on white paper; keywords in red; the opening page has a handsome heading in gold, red and blue. All sentences are separated by gold discs. All pages are ruled in gold, blue and black. The teacher's seal appears at the very end of the certificate, dated 1312 Hijrī (1894/1895). Folio 12a contains some rubrics in gold., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh ḥamda man shakar, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyid al-Bashar Nabīyinā Abī al-Qāsim Muḥammad al-abarr, wa-ʻalá ālihi alladhī ṭāba wa-ṭahur. Fa-yaqūlu al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-ghanī ʻAlī Riḍā ibn Yūnus al-Jānakī al-Fātsawī al-Fazmawī ayyadahumā Allāh taʻālá fī jamīʻ umūrihimā bi-taʼyīdihi al-qawī ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: bi-hi kull mubham., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "This is a representation of my Ijāzah (Certificate), including my chain of masters, related to the Qurʼān and Sunnah concerning the traditional and intellectual sciences, to the brother in the Good God, al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAlī al-Bāzārjīfī. Issued by me, I, the poor to the affluent God, Riḍā ibn Yūnus al-Jānakī al-Fātsawī mawlidan wa-al-Istānbūlī mawṭinan, dated 5 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 1321 of the Hijrah [23 January, 1904]. May God's prayers be on the Prophet [Muḥammad] thousand thousand times. [Seal of] ʻAlī Riḍā.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله حمد من شكر، والصلوة والسلام على سيد البشر نبينا أبي القاسم محمد الأبر، وعلى آله الذي طاب وطهر. فيقول الفقير إلى الله الغني علي رضا بن يونس الجانكي الفاتسوي الفزموي أيدهما الله تعالى في جميع أمورهما بتأييده القوي ...", الخاتمة: "هذه صورة إجازتي وسندي في الكتاب والسنة في نقليات العلوم وعقلياتها للأخ في الله الصالح الحاج عبد القادر بن علي البازارجيفي، وأنا الفقير إلى الله الغني علي رضا بن يونس الجانكي الفاتسوي مولدًا والإستانبولي موطنًا، في اليوم الخامس من ذي القعدة، إحدى وعشرين وثلاثمائة وألف، على النبي صلوات الله ألف ألف. [ختم] علي رضا 1312.", and بداية الورقة الثانية: به كل مبهم.
Subject (Name):
Bāzārjīfī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAlī, active 1904., Bāzārjīfī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAlī,--active 1904., Fazmawī, ʻAlī Riḍā ibn Yūnus,--active 1904., بازارجيفي، عبد القادر بن علي، ناشط 1904., بازارجيفي، عبد القادر بن علي،--ناشط 1904., and فزموي، علي رضا بن يونس،--ناشط 1904.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Islamic learning and scholarship., Muslim scholars--Biography., and Muslim scholars--Intellectual life.
Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 918 or 919-991 or 992. ابن بابويه القمي، محمد بن علي، 918 أو 919-991 أو 992.
Published / Created:
1625
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 570
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A Shīʻah treatise to prove that Imams and prophets do disappear and reappear (a fundamental Shīʻah doctrine), by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī (918 or 919-991 or 992), also known by the epithet "al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq" (the Trustworthy Shaykh "Master"), the most learned Shīʻī thinker of his day and one of the most important Shīʻī scholars. The work is also listed in reference sources under its longer titles "Ikmāl al-dīn wa-itmām al-niʻmah fī ithbāt al-ghaybah wa-kashf al-ḥayrah" and "Kamāl al-dīn wa-tamām al-niʻmah fī ithbāt al-ghaybah wa-kashf al-ḥayrah" (See: Brockelmann, GAL, S I: 322). Copied on Saturday, 20 Jumādá al-Thānī, 1034 (30 March, 1625) at "Qaryat Hāndūkafarḥay [?] min maḍāfāt baldah muʻaẓẓamah [...?]" (location could not be identified). Name of copyist not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Ikmāl al-dīn wa-itmām al-niʻmah fī ithbāt al-ghaybah wa-kashf al-ḥayrah, Kamāl al-dīn wa-tamām al-niʻmah fī ithbāt al-ghaybah wa-kashf al-ḥayrah, إكمال الدين وإتمام النعمة : مخطوطة / أبو جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن موسى بن بابويه القمي., إكمال الدين وإتمام النعمة في إثبات الغيبة وكشف الحيرة, and كمال الدين وتمام النعمة في إثبات الغيبة وكشف الحيرة
Description:
17.2 x 28 cm; written surface: 9 x 18.5 cm; 19 lines per page., Author's name from folio 2a., Binding: In modern brown leather binding., Colophon: "Tammat. al-Ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-itmām wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyid al-anām wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-muntakhabīn ilá yawm al-qiyām. Qad waqaʻa al-farāgh fī yawm al-Sabt muʼarrakhan 20 shahr Jumādá al-Thānī sanat 1034 fī Qaryat Hāndūkafarḥay [?] min maḍāfāt baldah muʻaẓẓamah [...?] ṣānahā Allāh taʻālá ʻan āfāt al-du[hū]r. Tamm. Tamm. Tamm. [Illegible seal].", In clear and somewhat small naskh script, in black ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; sometimes the headings are in large black script; about 100 leaves have some repair with some loss of text; extensive marginal notes in different hands; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi aʻin wa-waffiq ʻalá itmāmih. al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-wāḥid al-aḥad, al-fard al-ṣamad, al-qādir al-ʻalīm al-ḥakīm, taqaddasa wa-taʻālá ʻan ṣifāt al-makhlūqīn, dhī al-jalāl wa-al-ikrām wa-[...] wa-al-inʻām alladhī la-hu al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná wa-al-amthāl al-ʻulyā wa-al-ḥikmah al-bālighah ...", On folio 271a an ownership statement dated 1199 Hijrī (1784 or 1785): "Mimmā manna bi-hi al-Malik al-Jalīl ʻalá ʻabdihi al-ḍaʻīf al-dhalīl Mūsá ibn Sayyid ʻAlī ibn Sayyid Yūsuf ibn Kāẓim al-Mūsawī nasaban wa-al-Hīn Abzalī [?] nisbatan. Raḥima Allāh wālidayhi man laqāhu wa-rajjaʻahu ilá ṣāḥibihi, wa-laʻan Allāh man laqāhu wa-saraqahu wa-lam yurajjiʻhu ilá ṣāḥibihi wa-ḥarāmun ʻalayhi an yanẓura fīhi. Sanat tisʻah wa-tisʻīn wa-alf wa-miʼah [1199 (1784 or 1785)].", On preliminary leaf: The stamp of "Maktabat al-Ṭayyār al-Khāṣṣah - Baghdād. Taʼassasat 1947 M - 1366 H. al-ʻAdad 011. Muʼassisuhā Hāshim ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Ṭayyār.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: wa-qāla innahumā lan yaftariqā., Text folios 1b-271a., Title from folio 1a., Translation of the colophon: "It is concluded. Praise be to God that it [the manuscript] is completed. May prayer and peace be upon the Master of the Nations [Prophet Muḥammad] and upon his family and chosen companions till Judgment Day. It was completed on Saturday, dated 20 Jumādá al-Thānī, the year 1034 [30 March, 1625] at the village of Hāndūkafarḥay [?], a dependency of the exalted town of [...?], may the Almighty God protect it from the calamities of time. Completed. Completed. Completed. [Illegible seal].", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ربّ أعن ووفق على إتمامه. الحمد لله الواحد الأحد، الفرد الصمد، القادر العليم الحكيم، تقدس وتعالى عن صفات المخلوقين، ذي الجلال والإكرام و[...] والإنعام الذي له الأسماء الحسنى والأمثال العليا والحكمة البالغة ...", الخاتمة: "تمت. الحمد لله على الإتمام والصلوة والسلام على سيد الأنام وعلى آله وأصحابه المنتخبين إلى يوم القيام. قد وقع الفراغ في يوم السبت مؤرخًا 20 شهر جميدى [جمادى] الثاني سنة 1034 في قرية هاندوكفرحي [؟] من مضافات بلدة معظمة [...؟] صانها الله تعالى عن آفات الد[هو]ر. تم. تم. تم. [ختم غير مقروء].", بداية الورقة الثانية: وقال إنهما لن يفترقا., على وجه الورقة 271 عبارة تملك بتاريخ 1199 هجري (1784 أو 1785): "مما منّ به الملك الجليل على عبده الضعيف الذليل موسى بن سيد علي بن سيد يوسف بن كاظم الموسوي نسبًا والحين أبزلي [؟] نسبةً. رحم الله والديه من لقاه ورجّعه إلى صاحبه، ولعن الله من لقاه وسرقه ولم يرجّعه إلى صاحبه وحرامٌ عليه أن ينظر فيه. سنة تسعة وتسعين وألف ومائة [1199 (1784 أو 1785)].", and على وجه الورقة الابتدائية الختم التالي: "مكتبة الطيار الخاصة بغداد. تأسست 1947 م - 1366 ھ. العدد 011. مؤسسها هاشم عبد الباقي الطيار."
Subject (Name):
Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī,--918 or 919-991 or 992. and ابن بابويه القمي، محمد بن علي،--918 أو 919-991 أو 992.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Imamate--Early works to 1800., and Shīʻah--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
An illuminated talismanic scroll, begins with the basmalah formula (Bismillahi al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm), followed by Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Qurʼān, Chapter one), followed by twenty-nine of the ninety-nine of al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná (Most Beautiful Names of God), written in a horizontal fashion. Each name is written in gold on black background, in circular shape, each circle is surrounded by tiny script, known as ghubār script in the form of a dome. The tiny script begins with Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Qurʼān, Chapter one), followed by the Throne verse (Qurʼān, Sūrat al-Baqarah: verse 255), followed by prayers, quotations from the Qurʼān, and other often repeated Islamic phrases. All these verses and invocations are meant to protect the owner of the scroll.
Description:
435 x 19 cm., In different scripts and styles of writing, in black, gold, silver and other colors on thick paper., Incipit: Starts with the Basmalah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., God (Islam)--Name., Prayer--Islam., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Baqarah., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Fātiḥah., and Talismans.
Two anonymous treatises on Islamic doctrines: 1. Arkān al-Islam (folios 1a-26b), on the five pillars of Islam: Confession of the faith, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca, and giving alms. 2. Sullam al-tawfīq ilá maḥabbat Allāh ʻalá al-taḥqīq (folios 28b-35b) "Ladder of success to the true love of God", also called Fīmā yajibu taʻallumuhu wa-taʻlīmuhu wa-al-ʻamal bi-hi lil-khāṣṣ wa-al-ʻāmm "What must be learnt, taught and followed privately and publically". The manuscripts are written in two different hands with ample spaces between the lines to accommodate the interlinear translation into Javanese (in Arabic script), possibly to be used by students to practice translation from Arabic into Javanese. No reference could be found for either title. Name of copyists and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
Arkān al-Islām., Fīmā yajibu taʻallumuhu wa-taʻlīmuhu wa-al-ʻamal bi-hi lil-khāṣṣ wa-al-ʻāmm., Sullam al-tawfīq ilá maḥabbat Allāh ʻalá al-taḥqīq., أركان الإسلام., and فيما يجب تعلمه وتعليمه والعمل به للخاص والعام.
Description:
15 x 22 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 12 cm; 7-8 lines per page., Binding: No covers (in four quires)., Colophon of Arkān al-Islām: Colophon missing. Ends with: "... al-amwāl allatī talzamu fīhā zakāh sittat anwāʻ: al-Naʻam, wa-al-naqdayn, wa-al-muʻashsharāt [al-muʻarrashāt], wa-amwal al-tijārah, wa-al-rikāz, wa-al-miʻdān [al-maʻādin]. Tammat [... ... ...]. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb.", Colophon of Sullam al-tawfīq ilá maḥabbat Allāh ʻalá al-taḥqīq: Colophon missing. Text ednd abruptly with: "... aw ʻinda ruʼyat jamʻ wa-ḥshr qāʼim fa-lam nughādir minhum aḥadan, yaqṣudu al-istikhfāf ...", In Arabic with interlinear translation into Javanese., In fair naskh script (Jawi style), in black ink on Indonesian paper called Daluang which is manufactured from the bark of a certain native tree called Saeh., Incipit of Arkān al-Islām: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu Allāh [lillāh] Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn ʻalá umūr al-dunyā wa-al-dīn, wa-ṣallá Allāh wa-sallam ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad khātim al-nabī [al-nabīyīn] wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn, wa-lā ḥawla wa-lā qūwata illā billāh al-ʻalī al-ʻaẓīm. Fa-qāla: Arkān al-Islām khamsah: Shahādat an lā ilāha illā Allāh wa-anna Muḥammadan Rasūl Allāh, wa-iqām al-ṣalāh, wa-ītāʼ al-zakāh, wa-ṣawm Ramaḍān, wa-ḥajj al-Bayt ...", Incipit of Sullam al-tawfīq ilá maḥabbat Allāh ʻalá al-taḥqīq: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdah lā sharīka lah, wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan ʻabduhu wa-rasūluhu, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-al-tābiʻīn. Ammā baʻd, fa-hādhā juzʼ laṭīf yassarahu Allāh taʻālá fīmā yajibu taʻallumuhu wa-taʻlīmuhu wa-al-ʻamal bi-hi lil-khāṣṣ wa-al-ʻāmm. Wa-al-wājib mā waʻada Allāh fāʻilahu bi-al-thawāb wa-tawaʻʻada tārikahu bi-al-ʻiqāb. Wa-sammaytuhu Sullam al-tawfīq ilá maḥabbat Allāh ʻalá al-taḥqīq ...", On folio 1a two lines in Javanese script and crude drawings of what seems to be a snake, a sword, two birds and a larva (probably a talisman of some kind)., On folios 26b, 27a-28a scribbles in Arabic and in Javanese (in Arabic script)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio of Sullam al-tawfīq ilá maḥabbat Allāh ʻalá al-taḥqīq: mā waʻada Allāh fāʻilahu., Secundo folio: Arkān al-Islām: Arkān al-Islām khamsah., Title of Arkān al-Islām from folio 1b., Title of Sullam al-tawfīq ilá maḥabbat Allāh ʻalá al-taḥqīq from folio 29a., بداية أركان الإسلام: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد الله [لله] رب العالمين وبه نستعين على أمور الدنيا والدين، وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبي [النبيين] وآله وصحبه أجمعين، ولا حول ولا قوة إلّا بالله العلي العظيم. فقال: أركان الإسلام خمسة: شهادة أن لا إله إلّا الله وأن محمدًا رسول الله، وإقام الصلاة، وإيتاء الزكاة، وصوم رمضان، وحج البيت ...", بداية الورقة الثانية لـِ: أركان الإسلام: أركان الإسلام خمسة., بداية الورقة الثانية لـِ: سلم التوفيق إلى محبة الله على التحقيق: ما وعد الله فاعله., بداية سلم التوفيق إلى محبة الله على التحقيق: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين، وأشهد أن لا اله إلّا الله وحدة لا شريك لة، وأشهد أن محمدًا عبده ورسوله، صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى آله وصحبه والتابعين. أما بعد، فهذا جزء لطيف يسره الله تعالى فيما يجب تعلمه وتعليمه والعمل به للخاص والعام. والواجب ما وعد الله فاعله بالثواب وتوعد تاركه بالعقاب. وسميته سلم التوفيق إلى محبة الله على التحقيق ...", خاتمة أركان الاسلام: الخاتمة مفقودة. ينتهي بـِ: "... الأموال التي تلزم فيها زكوة ستة أنواع: النعم، والنقدين، والمعشراة [والمعرّشات]، وأمول التجارة، والركاز، والمعدان [والمعادن]. تمت [... ... ...]. والله أعلم بالصواب.", and خاتمة سلم التوفيق إلى محبة الله على التحقيق: الخاتمة مفقودة. ينتهي النص فجأةً بـِ: "... أو عند رؤية جمع وحشر قائم فلم نغادر منهم أحدًا، يقصد الاستخفاف ..."
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Arabic manuscripts. and Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
A collection of several works by different authors, on different Islamic subjects: 1. Poem on the seven voluntary fasts in Islam by an anonymous author (folio 1a). 2. Kitāb al-dumūʻ "Book of tears" (folios 1b-55a), also known by the title "Baḥr al-dumūʻ" (Sea of tears), on exhortation and repentance, by Ibn al-Jawzī (ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201), a prolific Ḥanafī scholar from Baghdad (Iraq). Copied in 1181 Hijrī (1767 or 1768). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned. 3. Miscellaneous anecdotes (folios 55b-57b). 4. Kitāb Ādāb al-akl "On the etiquette of eating" by an anonymous author (folios 57b-68a). 5. Kitāb Ādāb al-nikāḥ "On the etiquette of marriage and sexual intercourse" by an anonymous author (folios 68a-87b). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned. 6. Miscellaneous Ḥadīths and advices (folios 87b-100b). Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥassānī in 1181 Hijrī (1767 or 1768). Place of copying not mentioned. 7. Tanwīr al-ghabash fī faḍl al-Sūdān wa-al-Ḥabash. "On the virtues of Blacks and Abyssinians" (folios 101a-134b) by Ibn al-Jawzī, copied at the end of 26 Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 1181 (14 May 1768) by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥasanī. Place of copying not mentioned. 8. A chapter (bāb) from an unidentified book by an unidentified author titled Bāb al-ʻAql ḥujjat Allāh ʻalá khalqih "Chapter of The mind is a proof of the existence of the Creator" (folios 135a-137a). 9. Questions and answers on Islamic law (folios 137b-139a) by al-Shaykh al-Ḥasan ibn Masʻūd al-Yūsī (1630 or 1631-1691), a prolific North African Islamic law scholar, a poet and "adīb" (litterateur). Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥassāni from leaflets marked by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tāghazūtī (could not be identified). 10. An anecdote from an unidentified work by Abū Bakr al-Muṭawwiʻī (could not be identified) regarding the encounter in Jerusalem of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀbid (could not be identified) with al-Khaḍir and Ilyās (two Heavenly entities), copied from a book by al-Tādilī (could not be identified) (folios 139b140a). Followed by an invocation "Duʻāʼ" (folio 140a). 11. Excerpts from Tuḥfat al-albāb fī ʻajāʼib al-buldān "Gift to the intellect regarding the wonders of countries" (folios 140a142b). Author and title could not be identified. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned. 12. Excerpts from Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá "On the life of animals" of Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī, 1341?-1405 (folios 142b-146b). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Ādāb al-akl., Ādāb al-nikāḥ., ʻAql ḥujjat Allāh ʻalá khalqih., Bāb al-ʻAql ḥujjat Allāh ʻalá khalqih., Baḥr al-dumūʻ, Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá, Kitāb al-dumūʻ., Tanwīr al-ghabash fī faḍl al-Sūdān wa-al-Ḥabash., Tuḥfat al-albāb fī ʻajāʼib al-buldān., آداب الأكل., آداب النكاح., باب العقل حجة الله على خلقه., بحر الدموع, تحفة الألباب في عجائب البلدان., تنوير الغبش في فضل السودان والحبش., حياة الحيوان الكبرى, عقل حجة الله على خلقه., and كتاب الدموع.
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15.5 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 18 cm; 20-24 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather binding, flap missing; central medallion on both covers; leaves are loose within the binding as usual with some Islamic bindings., Colophon of An anecdote regarding the encounter of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀbid with al-Khaḍir and Ilyās: "Manqūl min kitāb al-Tādilī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu wa-nafaʻanā bi-barakātihi. Āmīn.", Colophon of Bāb al-ʻAql ḥujjat Allāh ʻalá khalqih. Colophon missinng. Ends with: "... wa-lā yuṣghī al-muʼmin al-ʻāqil li-khurāfat man yaqūlu al-maʻbūdāt al-bāṭilāt maʻa Allāh ka-al-aṣnām wa-al-Shams wa-al-Qamar hiya al-manfīyah li-annahā layst bi-ālihah li-ḥudūthihā wa-iftiqārihā wa-lā muthbitah li-wujūdihā wa-thubūtihā. Qāla Allāh taʻālá: 'Inna alladhīna tadʻūna min dūn Allāh ʻibādun amthālukum' wa-lam yaqul ālihah mithlī, wa-shattāna mā bayna mā istaghraqatʹhu al-ʻubūdīyah wa-bayna mā wajabat la-hu al-ulūhīyah. H. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman.", Colophon of Excerpts from Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá. Colophon missing. Ends abruptly with: Yanāmu bi-iḥdá muqlatayhi wa-yattaqī // bi-ukhrá al-aʻādī fa-huwa yaqẓānu nāʼimu. Wa-ghayruhu ...", Colophon of Excerpts from Tuḥfat al-albāb fī ʻajāʼib al-buldān. Colophon missing. Ends with: "... Fa-lā taʻjaban yā hādhā mimmā raʼaytahu // fa-kullu umūr al-dunyā hādhā maṣīruhā. H.", Colophon of Kitāb Ādāb al-akl: Colophon missing. Ends with: "... wa-qāla ayḍan: ʻAjibtu li-man yadkhulu al-ḥammām ʻalá al-rīq thumma yuʼakhkhiru al-akl baʻda an yakhruja kayfa lā yamūtu. Wa-ʻajibtu li-man iḥtajama thumma bādara al-akl kayfa lā yamūtu. Wa-qāla ayḍan lam ara shayʼan anfaʻu lil-wabāʼ min duhn al-banafsaj yuddahanu bi-hi wa-yushrab.", Colophon of Kitāb Ādāb al-nikāḥ: "Wa-hādhā alladhī wajadnā fa-qayyadnāh min baʻḍ al-awrāq, wa-lam najid lahum [la-hā] awwalan wa-lā ākhiran wa-fīhim [wa-fīhā] batr wa-tamzīq min ṭūl al-zamān ʻalayhim [ʻlayhā]. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman. Wa-ākhir daʻwānā an al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn.", Colophon of Kitāb al-dumūʻ (folio 55a): "Intahá Kitāb al-Dumūʻ. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh wa-ilayhi al-rujūʻ. Wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad dhī al-majd wa-al-maqām al-marfūʻ wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi ulī al-ikhlāṣ lillāh wa-al-khushūʻ. Wa-raḥima Allāh man allafahu wa-kātibahu wa-kāsibahu wa-qāriyahu wa-sāmiʻahu wa-mustaʻmilahu wa-li-man daʻā lahum bi-al-maghfirah wa-al-raḥmah. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. ʻĀm 1181.", Colophon of Miscellaneous Ḥadīths and advices: "Wa-hādhā mā wajadnāhu muqayyadan fa-qayyadnāh wa-lillāh katabnāh. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran athīran ilá yawm al-dīn wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. ʻAlá [yad] ʻabdihi Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥassānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu. Āmīn ʻĀm 1181.", Colophon of Poem on the seven voluntary fasts in Islam. Colophon missing. Ends with: Wa-thālithu ayyām al-Muḥarrami innahu // jalīlun wa-ʻĀshurāʼu [wa-ʻĀshūrāʼu] fīhi aqāwilu.", Colophon of Questions and answers on Islamic law: "Kutiba hādhā min baʻḍ al-awrāq waqafa ʻalayhim [ʻalayhā] Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tāghazūtī wa-ʻallama ʻalayhim [ʻalayhā] bi-ʻalāmatihi. Wa-naqalahā ʻabd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥassānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu. Āmīn.", Colophon of Tanwīr al-ghabash fī faḍl al-Sūdān wa-al-Ḥabash: "Kamula bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ḥusn ʻawnih Kitāb Tanwīr al-ghabash fī faḍl al-Sūdān wa-al-Ḥabash taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Faqīh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj al-Jawzī, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá wa-raḍiya ʻanhu. Āmīn. Wa-al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-mudhnib ʻubayd Allāh wa-aqall al-ʻabīd Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥassānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu, yawm al-Jumʻah ākhir )26) maḍat min Dhī al-Ḥijjah ʻām 1181 [14 May, 1768].", In fair, small Maghribī script, in black ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Incipit of An anecdote regarding the encounter of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀbid with al-Khaḍir and Ilyās: "al-Ḥamdu lillāh. Dhakara Abū Bakr al-Muṭawwiʻī ʻan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀbid qāl: Kuntu jālisan fī Bayt al-Maqdis ʻinda Bāb Sulaymān, ʻlayhi al-salām, yawm al-Jumʻah baʻda al-ʻaṣr, idh jāʼa ilayya shakhṣān, aḥaduhumā yushbihu khilqtuhu khilqatanā wa-al-ākhar ʻaẓīm al-khalq, kānat jabhatuhu ʻarīḍatan wa-kāna fīhā athar ḍarbah wa-sallamā ʻalayya ...", Incipit of Bāb al-ʻAql ḥujjat Allāh ʻalá khalqih: "Bāb al-ʻAql ḥujjat Allāh ʻalá khalqih wa-huwa mālik al-qalb wa-amīr al-jasad wa-wazīr al-rūḥ wa-tarjumān al-ʻabd wa-bi-hi yaqaʻu al-tadbīr wa-tathbut al-ḥujjah. Wa-huwa ʻaqlān, ʻaql mawhūb wa-ʻaql maksūb. Fa-al-ʻaql al-mawhūb huwa alladhī wahaba Allāh ʻazza wa-jall lil-ʻulamāʼ yumayyizūn bi-hi al-ḥaqq wa-al-bāṭil, wa-al-ʻaql al-maksūb huwa alladhī ishtarakat [fīhi] jamīʻ al-khalāʼiq wa-uʻṭiya minhu lil-malāʼikah wa-banī Ādam wa-al-bahāʼim ...", Incipit of Excerpts from Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá: "Wa-min kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān. Ḥarf al-Yāʼ. Yājūj wa-Mājūj, summū bi-dhālika li-kathratihim. Wa-qīl huwa ism Aʻjamī ghayr mushtaq. Qāla Muqātil: Hum walad Yāfit ibn Nūḥ, ʻlayhi al-salām. Wa-ammā qawlu man qāl anna Ādam nāma wa-iḥtalam wa-iltaṣaqa manīyuhu bi-al-turāb fa-tawallada minhu hādhā al-ḥayawān fa-mardūd bi-ʻadam iḥtilām al-anbiyāʼ ʻalayhim al-salām ...", Incipit of Excerpts from Tuḥfat al-albāb fī ʻajāʼib al-buldān: "al-Ḥamdu lillāh. Dhukira fī Tuḥfat al-albāb fī ʻajāʼib al-buldān anna fī balad al-Sūdān ummah bilā ruʼūs wa-qad dhakarahum al-Shaʻbī fī kitāb Sīrat al-mulūk. Wa-qad dhakara anna fī bilād al-Maghrib ummah min walad Ādam kulluhum nisāʼ wa-lā yaʻīshu fī arḍihim dhakar ...", Incipit of Kitāb Ādāb al-akl: "Kitāb Ādāb al-akl. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-sallama taslīman. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī aḥsana tadbīr al-kāʼināt fa-khalaqa al-khalq wa-al-samāwāt wa-anzala al-māʼ al-furāt min al-muʻṣirāt fa-anshaʼa al-ḥayy wa-al-nabāt wa-qaddara al-arzāq wa-al-aqwāt wa-ḥafiẓ bi-al-maʼkūlāt qiwá al-ḥayawānāt wa-aʻāna ʻalá al-ṭāʻāt wa-al-aʻmāl al-ṣāliḥāt wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Muḥammad dhī al-muʻjizāt al-bāhirāt ...", Incipit of Kitāb Ādāb al-nikāḥ: "Kitāb Ādāb al-nikāḥ. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-Nabī al-karīm wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī lā tuṣādifu sihām al-awhām fī ʻajāʼib ṣanʻatih majrá wa-lā tarjiʻu al-ʻuqūl ʻan awāʼil badāʼiʻihi illā wālihatan ḥayrá wa-lā tazālu laṭāʼifu ʻamalihi niʻmatan ʻalá al-ʻālamīn tatrá, fa-hiya tatawālá ʻlayhim ikhtiyāran wa-qahran ...", Incipit of Kitāb al-dumūʻ: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbih wa-sallama taslīman. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Faqīh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAlī al-Jawzī, raḥimahu Allāh wa-raḍiya ʻanh: al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī ikhtaraʻa al-ashyāʼ bi-laṭīf qudratih wa-badīʻ ṣanʻatih fa-aḥsana fīmā ikhtaraʻa, wa-abdaʻ al-mawjūdāt ʻalá ghayr mithāl, fa-lā sharīka la-hu fīmā abdaʻ. Allafa al-laṭīf wa-al-kathīf min aʻdād āḥād al-jawāhir wa-jamaʻa li-yufrida bi-al-waḥdānīyah kull maṣnūʻ ...", Incipit of Miscellaneous Ḥadīths and advices: "Wa-min baʻḍ taʼālif al-Aḥādīth: Man dakhala ʻalá marīḍ an yaḍaʻa yadahu ʻalá jabīnihi aw mawḍiʻ min jasadihi wa-an yadʻwa la-hu li-qawlihi, ʻalayhi al-salām: Mā min ʻabdin Muslimin yaʻūdu marīḍan lā yaḥḍuru ajaluhu fa-yaqūlu nasʼalu Allāh al-ʻaẓīm rabb al-ʻarsh al-ʻaẓīm an yashfiyaka wa-yuʻāfiyaka illā shafāhu Allāh ...", and Incipit of Poem on the sev
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Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405. Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá., Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá,--1341?-1405., Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201. Kitāb al-dumūʻ., Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201. Tanwīr al-ghabash fī faḍl al-Sūdān wa-al-Ḥabash., Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī,--approximately 1116-1201., Yūsī, al-Ḥasan ibn Masʻūd, 1630 or 1631-1691., Yūsī, al-Ḥasan ibn Masʻūd,--1630 or 1631-1691., ابن الجوزي، ابو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي، حوالي 1116-1201. تنوير الغبش في فضل السودان والحبش., ابن الجوزي، أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي، حوالي 1116-1201. كتاب الدموع., ابن الجوزي، أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي،--حوالي 1116-1201., دميري، محمد بن موسى، 1341?-1405. حياة الحيوان الكبرى., دميري، محمد بن موسى،--1341?-1405., يوسي، الحسن بن مسعود، 1630 أو 1631-1691., and يوسي، الحسن بن مسعود،--1630 أو 1631-1691.
Subject (Topic):
Animals--Early works to 1800., Arabic manuscripts., Black race--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800., Curiosities and wonders in literature--Early works to 1800., Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800., Ethiopians--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800., Faith and reason--Islam--Early works to 1800., Fasting--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800., God (Islam)--Early works to 1800., Hadith--Early works to 1800., Islamic law--Early works to 1800., Islamic literature--Early works to 1800., Islamic marriage customs and rites--Early works to 1800., Jinn--Qurʼanic teaching--Early works to 1800., Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800., Repentance--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800., Salutations--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800., Sexual intercourse--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800., and Women in Islam--Early works to 1800.
Treatises on Islamic philosophy and doctrines, as follows: 1. al-Farq bayna al-ʻilm wa-al-maʻrifah, a philosophical treatise, on the difference between knowing and knowledge (folios 2b-51b) by anonymous, in Arabic with many glosses and marginal notes in Javanese (in Arabic script). Part of the treatise is in the form of question and answer. 2. Bahjat al-ʻulūm fī sharḥ Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl (folios 52b-86a) by anonymous. An extensive commentary on "Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl" of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad (died 983?), on Islamic doctrines. 3. Taʻlīq ʻalá Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh (folios 87b-149b), by anonymous, a commentary on "Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Zāhid, died 1416 (a prolific Egyptian Ṣufī and Shafiʻī Islamic law scholar), a treatise on Shāfiʻī Islamic law discussing sixty legal issues. 4. Sharḥ kalimatay al-Shahādah (folios 144b-149b), a commentary on the two statements of the confession of the Islamic faith, by anonymous. 5. Bāb "Faḍl al-ʻaṣā" (folio 150a), "Chapter on the virtue of the staff", a quotation attributed to "Bustān al-ʻārifīn", probably of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
Bāb "Faḍl al-ʻaṣā"., Bahjat al-ʻulūm fī sharḥ Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl., Farq bayna al-ʻilm wa-al-maʻrifah., Sharḥ kalimatay al-Shahādah., Taʻlīq ʻalá Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh., باب "فضل العصا"., بهجة العلوم في شرح بيان عقيدة الأصول., تعليق على ستون مسألة في الفقه., شرح كلمتي الشهادة., and فرق بين العلم والمعرفة.
Description:
17.5 x 23 cm; written surface: 10 x 14 cm; 9 lines per page., Binding: Modern green cloth binding., Colophon of al-Farq bayna al-ʻilm wa-al-maʻrifah: Colophon missing. Ends with: "... al-Zuhd thalāthat aḥrūf [aḥruf], Zāʼ wa-Hāʼ wa-Dāl. Fa-al-Zāʼ zād al-maʻād, wa-al-Hāʼ hudá fī al-dunyā, wa-al-Dāl dāma ʻalá ṭāʻat Allāh taʻālá wa-al-humām al-ʻābid raḥmat Allāh ʻlayhi wa-ʻalá aṣḥābihi ajmaʻīn bi-barakat Muḥammad Sayyid al-mursalīn bi-raḥmatika yā arḥam al-rāḥimīn. Tammat. Wa-Allāh aʻlam.", Colophon of Bāb "Faḍl al-ʻaṣā" is missing. Ends with: "... Wa-ruwiya ʻan al-Nabī ṢM annahu qāl: Man balagha al-arbaʻīn sanah wa-lam yuʼkhadh [yaʼkhudh] al-ʻaṣá [al-ʻaṣā] ʻallahu min al-ʻujb wa-al-kibr. Bustān al-ʻārifīn.", Colophon of Bahjat al-ʻulūm fī sharḥ Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl: "... Wa-nakhtumu al-kitāb bi-ṣalāt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam: Allāhumma innī asʼaluka salāmah fī al-dīn wa-ʻāfiyah fī al-jasad wa-ziyādah fī al-ʻilm wa-jazīlan fī al-ākhirah bi-sabab barakat ismika al-karīm, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Yā Rabba al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-Allāh aʻlam. Tammat. Wa-Allāh aʻlam. Āmīn." In a different hand: "al-Tawfīq. Tammat al-kitāb al-Sharḥ al-Samarqandī.", Colophon of Sharḥ kalimatay al-shahādah: "Tammat al-kitāb al-musammá bi-hā [bi-]Sharḥ kalimatay al-shahādah, wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb.", Colophon of Taʻlīq ʻalá Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh. Colophon missing. Ends with "... wa-tumattiʻunā bi-al-naẓar ilá wajhika al-karīm maʻa aḥibbāʼika al-aṣfiyāʼ al-aḥyāʼ wa-al-abrār, wa-ṣallá Allāh taʻālá [ʻalá] afḍal al-khalq Sayyidinā Muḥammad kullamā dhakaraka al-dhākirūn wa-sahá wa-ghafila ʻan dhikrika al-ghāfilūn, wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Tammat.", In Arabic and Javanese with translation into Javanese., Incipit of al-Farq bayna al-ʻilm wa-al-maʻrifah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī akhraja ʻibādahu min al-ʻadam ilá wujūd wa-jarrahum bi-tawfīqihi ʻan ghasaq al-jahl ilá al-shuhūd wa-amarahum ilá al-ṣalawāt al-khams bi-al-rukūʻ wa-al-sujūd li-taḥṣīl al-niʻam wa-ḥawāʼij al-maqṣūd ...", Incipit of Bāb "Faḍl al-ʻaṣā": "Bāb Faḍl al-ʻaṣā. Qāla al-faqīh, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu: Rawá Maymūn ibn Mamrān ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās: Imasāk al-ʻaṣā sunnat al-anbiyāʼ wa-zayn al-ṣāliḥīn wa-silāḥ ʻalá al-aʻdāʼ yaʻnī al-kalb wa-al-ḥayyah ...", Incipit of Bahjat al-ʻulūm fī sharḥ Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl: Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir wa-lā tuʻassir. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī nawwara qulūb al-muʼminīn bi-nūr hidāyatih wa-asʼaluka bi-riḍāka fī taʼlīf al-mukhtaṣar ... wa-sammaytuhā Bahījat al-ʻulūm fī al-sharḥ [sharḥ] fī Bayān ʻaqīdat al-uṣūl wa-Allāh al-mustaʻān ...", Incipit of Sharḥ kalimatay al-shahādah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-Allāh al-muʻīn ʻalá man sharaḥa bi-faḍlihi al-ʻamīm. Wa-Allāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi wa-sallam. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn kamā yanbaghī li-jalālihi wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qāla al-muṣannif, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá Jinān [?], raḍiya Allāh ʻanh: Iʻlam anna kalimatay al-shahādah mimmā yajibu ʻalá kull mukallaf ...", Incipit of Taʻlīq ʻalá Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá ashraf al-mursalīn Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Ammā baʻd, fa-hādhihi [fa-hādhā] taʻlīq ʻalá al-muqaddimah al-maʻrūfah bi-al-Sittīn masʼalah al-mansūbah lil-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil Ibn ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-Zāhid taghammadahu Allāh bi-raḥmatih, yaḥullu alfāẓahā wa-yutimmu mafādahā. Wa-asʼalu Allāh min faḍlihi al-jazīl an yanfaʻa [bi-hā], fa-huwa ḥasbī wa-niʻma al-wakīl ...", On folio 52a Ḥadīth: al-Ḥarrāthūn min ummatī, fa-inna nahāruhum jihād wa-layluhum ṭawāf wa-nawmuhum kaffārah li-mā maḍá min dhunūbihim ...", On folios 150b-151b prayers and invocations in Javanese and Arabic., On folios 86b-87a, a quotation attributed to "Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn" of al-Ghazzālī about seeing the moon in the month of Ramaḍān., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio for Bahjat al-ʻulūm fī sharḥ Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl: bi-shafāʻatihi ṣallá., Secundo folio of al-Farq bayna al-ʻilm wa-al-maʻrifah: ʻalayhi bi-ḥaythu lā yakhfá., Secundo folio of Sharḥ kalimatay al-shahādah: ṣaddaqa bi-qalbihi mā lam., Secundo folio of Taʻlīq ʻalá Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh: Allāh bi-raḥmatih yaḥullu., The codex is written in fair and large naskh script (Jawī style), in black ink on Indonesian paper called "Daluang" which is manufactured from the bark of a certain native tree called "saeh"; headings, keywords and markings in red; numerous marginal and interlinear notes in Javanese (Arabic script). Ample spaces are left between the lines to accommodate the notes and the translation into Javanese; some wormholes, mainly marginal., Title of al-Farq bayna al-ʻilm wa-al-maʻrifah from folio 3a., Title of Bāb "Faḍl al-ʻaṣā" form folio 150a., Title of Bahjat al-ʻulūm fī sharḥ Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl from folio 53a., Title of Sharḥ kalimatay al-shahādah from colophon (folio 149b)., Title of Taʻlīq ʻalá Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh from folio 87bb., Title of the codex supplied by cataloger., Translation of Sharḥ kalimatay al-shahādah: "The book titled Sharḥ kalimatay al-shahādah is concluded. God is more knowledgeable of what is correct.", Translation of the colophon of Bahjat al-ʻulūm fī sharḥ Bayān ʻAqīdat al-uṣūl: "We conclude the book by the invocation of the Prophet, may God pray on him and grant him peace [...]. It is concluded. God is more knowledgeable. And in a different handwriting: [May we have] success. The book of "Sharḥ al-Samarqandī" is concluded.", بداية الفرق بين العلم والمعرفة: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي أخرج عباده من العدم إلى وجود وجرّهم بتوفيقه عن غسق الجهل إلى الشهود وأمرهم إلى الصلواة [الصلوات] الخمس بالركوع والسجود لتحصيل النعم وحوائج المقصود ...", بداية الورقة الثانية لبهجة العلوم في شرح بيان عقيدة الأصول: بشفاعته صلى., بداية الورقة الثانية لتعليق على ستون مسألة في الفقه: الله برحمته يحل., بداية الورقة الثانية لشرح كلمتي الشهاده: صدّق بقلبه ما لم., بداية الورقة الثانية للفرق بين العلم والمعرفه: عليه بحيث لا يخفى., بداية باب "فضل العصا": "باب فضل العصا. قال الفقيه، رضي الله عنه: روى ميمون بن ممران عن ابن عباس: إمساك العصا سنّة الأنبياء وزين الصالحين وسلاح على الأعداء يعني الكلب والحية ...", بداية بهجة العلوم في شرح بيان عقيدة الأصول: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ربّ يسر ولا تعسر. الحمد لله الذي نوّر قلوب المؤمنين بنور هدايته وأسئلك برضاك في تأليف المختصر ... وسميتها بهيجة [بهجة] العلوم في الشرح [شرح] في بيان عقيدة الأصول والله المستعان ...", بداية تعليق على ستون مسألة في الفقه: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشرف المرسلين سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين. أما بعد، فهذه [فهذا] تعليق على المقدمة المعروفة بالستين مسألة المنسوبة للشيخ الإمام العالم العامل ابن عباس أحمد الزاهد تغمده الله برحمته، يحلّ ألفاظها ويتم مفادها. وأسأل الله من فضله الجزيل ان ينفع [بها]، فهو حسبي ونعم الوكيل ...", بداية شرح كلمتي الشهاده: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. والله المعين على من شرح بفضله العميم. والله رب العالمين. وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد وآله وأصحابه وسلم. الحمد لله رب العالمين كما ينبغي لجلاله والصلوة والسلام على محمد وآله. قال المصنف، رحمه الله تعالى جنان [؟]، رضي الله عنه: اعلم أن كلمتي الشهادة مما يجب على كل مكلف ...", خاتمة الفرق بين العلم والمعرفه: الخاتمة مفقودة. ينتهي النص بـِ: "... الزهد ثلاثة أحروف [أحرف]، زاء وهاء ودال. فالزاء زاد المعاد، والهاء هدى في الدنيا، والدال دام على طاعة الله تعالى والهمام العابد رحمة الله عليه وعلى أصحابه أجمعين ببركة محمد سيد المرسلين برحمتك يا أرحم الراحمين. تمت. والله أعلم.", خاتمة باب "فضل العصا" مفقودة. ينتهي النص بـِ: "... وروي عن النبي صم أنه قال: من بلغ الأربعين سنة ولم يؤخذ [يأخذ] العصى [العصا] علّه من العجب والكبر. بستان العارفين.", and خاتمة بهجة العلوم في شرح بيان عقيدة الأصول: "... ونختم الكتاب
Subject (Name):
Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad,---983?--Bayān ʻaqīdat al-uṣūl., Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad,---983?--Bustān al-ʻārifīn., Ghazzālī,--1058-1111.--Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn.--Selections., Zāhid, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1416.--Sittūn mas̄ʼalah fī al-fiqh., أبو الليث السمرقندي، نصر بن محمد،---983?--بستان العارفين., أبو الليث السمرقندي، نصر بن محمد،---983?--بيان عقيدة الأصول., زاهد، أحمد بن محمد،---1416.--ستون مسألة في الفقه., and غزالي،--1058-1111.--إحياء علوم الدين.--مختارات.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800., Islamic law--Early works to 1800., Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800., Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)--Early works to 1800., Shafiites--Early works to 1800., Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) in literature--Early works to 1800., and Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800.
A collection of Islamic prayers, invocations and decorations, as follows: 1. Part of an invocation in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic (folio 1a). The first leaf seems to be missing. 2. Asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná (The 99 most beautiful names of God), written within gold squares (folio 1b-3a). 3. The name of the Prophet Muḥammad (folio 3a-4b). 4. Duʻāʼ istighfār kabīr (A prayer for seeking God's forgiveness) (folios 4b-5a). 5. Sharḥ muhr kabīr sharīf (An explanation of the noble seal of God) (folio 5b). 6. The seal itself written in large thulth script (folio 6a). 7. The word "Allāh, jalla jalāluh", written within a crescent moon surrounded by a decorative rectangle in gold and blue (folio 6b). 8. The word "Muḥammad, ʻalyhi al-salām" written in a similar fashion (folio 7a). 9. The name of "Adam" written within a circle surrounded by a decorative rectangle in gold and blue (folio 7b). 10. The names of Noah, Muḥammad, Abū Bakr, ʻUmar, ʻUthmān, ʻAlī, Ḥasan, Ḥusayn in a similar fashion (folios 8a-12a). 11. The names of the famous companions of the Prophet Muḥammad, written within decorative circles: Abū Bakr, ʻUmar, ʻUthmān, ʻAlī, Ṭalḥah, Zubayr, ʻAbd Allāh, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ibn ʻAwf, Saʻd, Saʻīd, Abū ʻUbaydah, Ḥasan, Ḥusayn (folios 12b-19a). 12. The names of "Ahl al-Kahf" (Seven sleepers of Ephesus): Yamlīkhā, Makshalīnā, Mithlīnā, Marnūsh, Bardanūsh, Shādhanūsh,Kafshaṭṭayyūsh and their dog "Qaṭmīr" (folios 19b-23a). 13. A prayer in the form of cypress trees (folios 23b-32a). 14. Invocation seals "muhrs": "Yā Ḥannān", "Yā Mannān" (Oh Merciful, Oh Generous), "Wa-huwa ʻalá kull shayʼ qadīr (He is able to do anything), Unity of God, Shifāʼ al-Qurʼān (Quranic medicine), seal of a prayer for getting well, seal for the great prayer of getting well, the seal of the Prophet, the seal of Sulaymān (Solomon), explanation of the seal of Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq (the sixth Shiʻī Imām, died 765), the seal of the Almighty, all written within decorative circles (folios 32b-38a). 14. Drawings of: "Hand of Faṭimah", "Dhū al-Fiqār" (ʻAlī's sword), foot of the Prophet Muḥammad, the Prophet's shoes, "Tawakkalū ʻalá Allāh" (Rely upon God), the staff of Moses, an ax, a rose, the banner of gratitude, the cloak of the Prophet Muḥammad, his rosary, his ewer and his basin, all drawn in gold (folios 39b-43a). 15. Decorative sketches of Mecca and Medina in gold and other colors (folios 43b-44a). 16. A prayer for attaining "al-Maqām al-Maḥmūd" (the Glorious Station "a place in Heaven") (folios 44b-45a). 17. Various Islamic flags drawn in gold (folios 45b-47a). 18. Various prayers for variety of occasions (folios 47b-69a). 19. Various talismanic numerology squares (folios 69b-72b). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century
Description:
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: The first leaf seems to be missing., Secundo folio: al-rāfiʻ al-muʻizz al-mudhill., 12 x 19 cm; written surface: 6 x 10 cm; lines per page vary., Binding: In brown leather binding with flap; covers richly gilt with central medallion on both sides and corners decorations; edges slightly rubbed., In large and beautiful naskh or thulth scripts, in black ink on thin white paper; with headings in white ink on gold background; catchwords., and Colophon: Last page seems to be missing; ends with a magic square and the katchword "barkamsah".
Treatise on words which have three different meanings, depending on whether the first syllable has the vowel a, i, or u.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Hitti 2003(27) is a versified version, and Ahlwardt 7072 a shorter one, without the shawāhid., Islamic binding, in brown, front cover and flap missing., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Lexicography and Islamic binding