Abstract: "Collection containing two glosses on al-Shirwānī's commentary on Samarqandī's Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth."Binding note: Stiffened brown leather. Each cover has an outer ruled border made of three blind fillets; half of the upper cover is missing.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-34a: Risālah ʻalá Mawlá al-ʻImād al-muḥashshī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Ibn Shujāʻ al-Dīn al-shahīr bi-Khazramah.Contents: 2. fol. 34b-37b: blank.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-56a: Risālah ʻalá Sharḥ al-fāḍil Masʻūd al-Rūmī / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.17 lines per page. Written in small but very clear naskh in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and "qawluhu", and to overline important words. In text no. 2, notes on content written in red in the margin. European glazed paper with watermarks; fol. 9 prev. 8 is a later replacement. Contains a few notes in the margin and some collation notes. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (starts on fol. 2; between fol. 35 and 38 prev. 34 and 35, two fol. blank).Collation: Paper, fol. 56 + i (modern endpaper) ; 1⁸ (+1, fol. 9) 2-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁸ (+1, fol. 48) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Copied by al-Ḥājj Qāsim in Qusṭanṭinīyah in 963 (from colophons, fol. 34a and 56a).
Abstract: Al-Shamāʾil al-Nabawīyah, a treatise on the sīrah of the Prophet, by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.12 lines per page. Written in elegant large Andalusian Maghribi in brown ink with use of red and blue ink and gold leaf for headings and paragraphs. Text within a triple-line frame ruled in red and blue ink. Catchwords on verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Extensive marginal notes in at least two different hands. European paper. No titlepage and a portion of the beginning of the text missing. Extensive water and insect damage to the paper, but the text legible throughout.Label in Arabic on fol. 1a: "Raqm 66".Incipit: مالك بن أنس عن ربيعة بن ابي عبد الرحمان عن أنس بن مالك أنّه سميعه يقول كان رسول الله ... ليس بالطويل البائن ولا بالقصير ولا بالأبيض الأمهوقExplicit: حدثنا محمد بن علي قال سمعت ابي يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر حدثنا محمد بن علي اخبرنا النضر اخبرنا ابن عون عن ابن سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عن من تأخذون دينكم ... و الحمد لله اولا واخرا و الصلاة والسلام على صاحب المقام ... وسلم تسليما
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Abstract: History of the conquest of North Africa from Qayrawān to Zāb.Binding note: Modern Western type binding of pasteboards covered with paper.Ms. codex.Title from rubric (fol. 1b).16 to 17 long lines per page. Written in Maghribi script, in brown ink with some use of red and occasional green; with catchwords on the verso of each leaf, and on the recto of each leaf from fol. 7a. European paper. Modern foliation using Western numerals. There is a ḥabūs mark (fol. 109b). Good condition with water staining and some minor insect damage. Some wear on final leaves.Copied by ʻAlī ibn Abī Muʻizz al-Rajrājī on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1140 (colophon, fol. 109b).Incipit: قال وسميت القروان قروان ... عقبة ابن عامر رضي الله عنه نزل بافريقيةExplicit: قال الراوى لهذا الحديث هذا ما وجدنا في السفر١ من فتوح افريقية من بلاد المهدية الى بلاد زاب وفي السفر الثانيمن بلاد زاب الى اخر المغرب ... وكان النصر للمسلمين من فضل الله وبركته ... وصلى الله على نبينا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثير.Opening rubric: (هذا تاليف فتوح افريقية من مدينة القروان الى زاب ببلاد طانة (؟
Abstract: 'A work on Ḥanafī law and jurisprudence, being a redaction from the author\'s al-Muntakhab min ʻulūm al-madhhabAbstract: and several commentaries such as Sharḥ al-Karkhī and al-Isbījābī (see beginning of textAbstract: fol. 2b). The text is followed on fol. 229-230b by an incomplete text written by another handAbstract: entitled "Majlis amlāhu muṣannif hādhā al-kitāb".'Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (prfessional hand) in black ink (faded to brown), with larger script for headings. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 1a-b. Several short excerpts on fol. 2a. Foliation in black ink (faded to brown) using Arabic numerals.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 10 Rajab 621 July 1224 by Bashīr ibn Ḥāmid ibn Sulaymān al-Jaʻfarī al-Tabrīzī (fol. 228b). According to notes on the margin of fol. 228b, collated on an autograph.Incipit: الحمد لله الاحد القديم الصمد الدايم ذي الكمال والدوام والجلال والاكرام والآلاء والنعم وصلى الله ... اما بعد فقد اختصرنا هذا الكتاب من كتابنا المنتخب من علوم المذهب ومن شروح بسيطة كشرح الكرخى ... كتاب الطهارات قال الله تعالى ياءيها الذين آمنوا اذا قمتم الى الصلوة فاغسلوا وجوهكم ... 3أ ففرض الله عز وجل في الوضوء غسلExplicit: لكل واحدة ثلثة اسهم وللاخت النصف اربعة وعشرون سعمًا وللاعمام اثنى عشر سهمًا لكل واحد سعمان تم الكتاب والحمد لله المنعم القديم المحمود العظيم وصلى الله على محمد رسوله الكريم ونبيه الحليم وعلى آله واصحابه وسلّم آخر عبارة المصنف الامير الامام الزاهد ايده الله وسدده
ff. 86. 182 x 130; 125 x 85 mm. 15 lin. 732 H. ?.Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 580 (8, 4: Kitāb al-mustaghīthīn).The ms. is divided into 4 juzʼ each with special title page and title in the form given above; title page of the first juzʻ and the commencement of the text are missing.Incip. (as extant): ... قال ما ترىد الى دمى شأنك بالمال قال اما المال فلست ارىدThese words agree with ms. Garrett 1893, fol. 2a, lin. 13.
ff. 23. 210 x 155; 145 x 90 mm. 15 lin. the author completed his work 4 Rabīʻ II, 1131; probably autograph.Incip.: ... قوله ىعنى اشراط الساعة تفسىر للبعض کما هو ظاهر
Abstract: A collection of hadith with sound isnads and contents and their use for determining correct action.Title from the bottom edge of the manuscript.الاجزاء من الاول وحتى الرابع من كتاب شفاء الاوام للتمييز بين الحلال والحرامLater additions and repairs dated February 1917. Sale note and multiple reading notes. Includes fragments by ʻAlī ibn Abī ṭālib.جيدة وهو عبارة عن مجلد جلدي كبير سقطت منه بعض الأوراق في آخره وتم استبدالها بأوراق أحدث منها. وهو مكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمرليلة الجمعة 23/صفر/سنة1049هـ; ليلة الخميس الرابع شهر ربع الآخر1049ه; 2/جماد الأول/سنة1049هـ; نهاية نسخ الأوراق المستبدلة من اللقطة رقم (527-534): عشية الأحد لعشر خلت من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة1335هـNaskh script, written in black and red ink. Final pages added later in different hand.31 lines.
ff. 44. 225 x 165; 148 x 100 mm. 21 lin. Muḥarram 1196, Mūsá al-Wakīl al-Damirdāshī; on fol. 2b and 9a autogr. ijāzahs for Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn al-Zajjājī, dat. 1196 and 1197H.The authorʼs name does not appear in the text, but on fol. 2b ult. he refers to his al-Mirqāt al-ʻAlīyah fī sharḥ al-ḥadīth al-musalsal bi-al-awwalīyah.Not identical with Berlin 10253 (Brockelmann, GAL, II, 371, no. 6).Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذي اتصل فضله ... اما بعد فهذه احادىث وآثار واشعار مما املىتها من حفظى ولفظى في زاوىة القطب شمس الدىن ابى محمود الحنفى
ff. 126. 270 x 183; 193 x 120 mm. 31 lin. Shawwāl 947.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 95 (4: no. 1); S II, 87.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى نور قلوب العلماء بمصابىح
ff. 130. 210 x 145; 175 x 125 mm. 18 lin. 14th cent. (a number of missing leaves suppl. by a later hand).Brockelmann, GAL, I, 440 (18: no. 1); S I, 610.Acephalous - on fol. 1a, lin. 2 begins the second ḥadīth: ... روى عن رسول الله ... من کشف عن اخىه کربه
Abstract: Short biographies of the great Muslim Imāms and the four orthodox caliphs. It contains the lives of Abū Ḥanīfah 699-767, Mālik ibn Anas 713-795, al-Shāfiʻī 767-820 and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal 780-855, after which occurs a section on the love of God followed by one on the virtues of the four orthodox caliphs. This is followed by a section on the asceticism of Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī, one on the excellences of ʻĀshūrāʼ, one on the birth of the Prophet, one on prayer and a section on the death of the Prophet. Following the colophon, further chapters are added on the Nile, saints, and in eulogy of the Prophet, apparently in the same hand.Binding note: Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām Abū ḤanīfahContents: 2. fol. 6a-10a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām al-Mālik ibn Anas.Contents: 3. fol. 10a-15b: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Shāfiʻī.Contents: 4. fol. 15b-19b: Faṣl fi manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.Contents: 5. fol. 20a-29b: Bāb fī maḥabbat Allāh.Contents: 6. fol. 29b-35a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-khulafā al-arbāʻah.Contents: 7. fol. 35a-38b: Faṣl fī manāsik al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Abī ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī.Contents: 8. fol. 38b-40b: Bāb fī faḍl ʻāshūrā.Contents: 9. fol. 40b-45b: Bāb fī mawlid Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 10. fol. 45b-50b: Bāb fī faḍl al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 11. fol. 50b-57a: Bāb fī wafāt al-Nabī.Contents: 12. fol. 57b-60b: Faṣl fī dhikr Nīl Miṣr.Contents: 13. fol. 61a-88a: Faṣl fī dhikr al-awliyāʼ al-abrār wa-al-ṣāliḥīn wa-al-fuqarā al-akhyārīn.Contents: 14. fol. 88b-89b: Madīḥ fī al-Nabī ʻ.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Collation: Paper ; fol. 89 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 17-19 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; entries in red, green and yellow ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness and foxed, a few folios are mended.Origin: According to colophon copied 14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1058 by Burhān al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mubārak al-Dāribī sic al-Baḍghānī (fol. 57a).Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل العلم للعلماء انساب انساباColophon: ووافق الفراغ من تعليق هذا الکتاب المبارك نهار الجمعة رابع عشر الحجة سنة ثمانية وخمسين والف وکتبه الفقير الى الله تعالى برهان الدين بن محمد بن احمد بن مبارك الداربي البضغاني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة والرحمة ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين آمين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible). Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of a running pattern and fillets. Rebacked.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Short excerpts from Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī; a commentary on Āyat al-Nūr; a text on Wājib al-wujūd; Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ; Ibn Ḥajar; Bayḍāwī.Contents: 2. fol. 6b-7b: Table of contents of Kitāb Arbaʻīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, followed by a short biographic note on the author.Contents: 3. fol. 8a: Short excerpt on al-imkān al-khāṣṣ and al-imkān al-ʻāmm; inscriptions in Persian.Contents: 4. fol. 8b-136a: al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 5. fol. 136b-182a: al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.Contents: 6. fol. 182b: Blank.Contents: "7. fol. 183a-184a: Short text on God's attributes apparently by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Bakr ibn MuḥammadContents: see end of textContents: fol. 184a)."Contents: '8. fol. 185a-188b: Excerpts from Itqān al-ʻulūm by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī reporting from Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī; Bayḍawī; Sharḥ al-Shmasīyah; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif by Jurjānī.'Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 183a-184a written in thick small naskh. Fol. 8-184 : European glazed paper. Fol. 1-7 and 185-188: fly-leaves on woven paper, with short excerpts written diagonally. Text 1 has been collated (see collation statement dated 17 Jumādá al-Thānī 1116 1704 on the margins of fol. 136a). Short excerpts and annotations on the margins. Long biographic note on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī after the colophon of text 1 (fol. 136a, 11 lines). Between fol. 135 and 136: Text in Persian on a small piece of paper. Some leaves loose.Copy of text 1 completed in 1115 by ʻAlī(?) ibn ʻAlī Akramghār(?) (colophon, fol. 136a).
ff. 234 (incompl. at end). 193 x 126; 125 x 62 mm. 19 lin. 17th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 401 (no. 1); S II, 425.Incip.: ... الحمد لله وسلام ... وبعد فلما ىسر الله
Abstract: "Treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: completed on 27 Jumādá II 969 March 1562 (see end of textAbstract: fol. 337a). The text is preceded on fol. 12a-15a by what appears to be a description of contentsAbstract: written by the same hand as the main text (beginning wanting). Fol. 332 is an addition with Abū Ḥanīfah's WaṣāyāAbstract: written by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl in Ṣafar 1145."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with a floral arabesque, with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers. Blind stamp on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 17a, l. 5-6).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta. The text is framed within a single line in magenta. Thin dark cream European paper with watermark; some leaves dyed in light yellow or green. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-11b. Handmade label with inscriptions on the upper cover. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 12a). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on fol. (i)a: "62".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Khalīl ibn Muṣṭafá, and completed in the night of Friday 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1143 June 1731 (fol. 337b; the colophon is inscribed within a circle consisting of two lines in red ink).Beginning as extant: الشرع والادد القاعدة الثانية اذا اجمع الحلال والحرام غلب الحرام الحلال وبيان ما يقزع عليها من اشباه ... 15أ ... بسم ... الحمد لله على ما انعم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وبعد فان الفقه اشرف العلوم قدرا واعظمها اجراExplicit: على رأس شجرتين فتقطع نصفين رحمه الله تعالى وهذا آخر ما اوردنا من كتاب الاشباه والنظائر فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابى حنيفة النعمان ... وكان الفراغ من تأليفه فى السابع والعشرين من جمادى الآخرة سنة تسع وستين وتسعماية وكانت مدة تأليفه ستة اشهر مع تخلّل ايام توعك الجسد والحمد لله ... الى يوم القيام وكتبه مؤلفه بيده الفانية زين بن نجيم الحنفى ... هذا آخر ما قاله المؤلف ... بجاه نبيه محمد ومصطفاه وآله واصحابه ومن والاهBeginning of text fol. 332a: بسم ... قال ابو حنيفة ... لابنه حماد ... يا بنى ارشدك الله تعالى وايدك اوصيك بوصايا ان حفظتها
acephalous first rubʻ (10 kurrāsahs missing at the beginning) containing ṭahārah through ḥajj; ff. 316. 270 x 175; 200 x 125 mm. 33 lin. 16th cen.Commentary on the abridgment of Rawḍat al-ṭālibīn: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 244 (no. 10); S II, 254.Incip.: ... قال ... الحمد لله الذى اظهر لنا ثمر الروض من کمامه
ff. 184. 322 x 210; 220 x 110 mm. 18 lin. 18th/19th cen. (Imām Shāmil).Brockelmann, GAL, II, 109 (commentary c); S II, 105.Incip.: ... الحمد لله على افضاله ... هذا ما اشتدت الىه حاجة المتفهمىن
Abstract: Collection of texts of Arabic literature.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. The envelope flap has a similar frame and a mandorla on its pointe. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-30b: Bard al-akbād fī al-aʻdād / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 2. fol. 31a-76a: Tarjamat al-kātib fī ādāb al-ṣāḥib / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.Contents: 3. fol. 77a-111b: Lawʻat al-shākī wa-damʻat al-bākī / Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and green ink. European paper with watermark. Mention in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Sh 441" (repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover).On fol. 1a: Table of contents by a later hand, mentioning a Risālat ʻibrat al-labīb by al-Ṣafadī which does not appear in the copy.Collation: Paper, fol. 111 ; 1-7¹⁰ 8⁶ 9² 10-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (+1, fol. 109) 14² ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
ff. 24. 175 x 128; 128 x 77 mm. 21 lin. Jumādá I, 956.Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 1010 (135a) ascribes this text to ʻUmar al-Maylānī, likewise the mss. in Arabische, türkische und persische Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek in Bratislava, 224 and 225. Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 1012 (154) ascribes it to Mawlānā Yūsuf. ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn, col. 260 attributes this work to Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Kūrānī (d. 768/1366: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 263); Fihris al-kutub al-mawjūdah bi-al-Maktabah al-Azharīyah, III, 545 to Ibn al-ʻArabī (title: Bayān al-asār lil-ṭālibīn al-abrār), see Yaḥyá, Histoire, no. 85.Incip.: ... الحمد لله القادر العلىم ... وبعد فالعلم أشرف منقبة
ff. 24. 220 x 160; 155 x 120 mm. 22 lin. autograph, Muḥarram 757.Concerning qiṣāṣ; divided into unnumbered faṣl; the title appears in the colophon.Incip.: ... اما بعد حمد الله ... فهذه فصول محکمة المبانى ... تضمنت مسائل مهمة الاقتصاص
ff. 189. 245 x 192; 180 x 90 mm. 25 lin. RabīʻI, 1304; collated by Muḥammad Shukrī al-Ālūsī, same date.Brockelmann, GAL, SN II, 420.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى اسهل اسباب السنة
Abstract: "Edifying treatiseAbstract: with examples from the conduct and oaths taking of important shaykhs. At the beginning of the text is a list of Shaʻrānī's shaykhs. The text is followed on fol. 183b-186a by a copy of the ijāzāt given by the ʻUlamāʾ of Egypt to the author."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped and red-painted scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Edges, spine, fore-edge flap mended in red leather.Ms. codex.Title from preamble of text (fol. 2b).Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark; glossy. The text is framed within two single red lines (gold, black, blue and red on fol. 1b-2a). Crudely executed headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b. Subject headings written in black ink by a later hand on the margin. Fol. 181-182 apparently later replacements. Stained with water.Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Saturday 12 Ramaḍān 1062 Aug. 17, 1652 (fol. 186a).Incipit: اقول وانا العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربّي عبد الوهاب ابن احمد بن على بن احمد بن كمال الدين بن موسى بن مولاي ابى عبد الله الزغلى بضم الزاي المعجمة وسكون الغين المعجمة سلطان تلمسن بارض المغرب واجل اصحاب سيدنا العارف بالله تعالى الشيخ ابى مدين شيخ مشايخ المغرب ... الحمد لله رب العالمين واصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... واقول حسبى الله ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوى الا بالله العلي العظيم وبعد فهذه عهود ومواثيق اخذت علينا من ساداتنا ومشايخنا الذين عاصرناهم وبعضها اقبسناهاExplicit: ابن حمزه الرملي الانصارى الشافعى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والحمد لله لرب العالمين وصلى الله ... يقول مولفها ... قد ارسلت هذا الكتاب لسيدي الشيخ بن عبد الحق تغمده الله برحمته فمكث عنده سنة ونصفا ومر عليه مرات قال الشيخ ابو اللطف ابن عمه قد استفدت من هذا الكتاب المبارك فوايد كثيرة واخذته المينه قبل كتابته عليه رحمة الله تعالى وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم السبت المبارك ثانى عشر شهر رمضان المبارك سنة اثنين وستين والف احسن الله ختامها بمحمد واله امين امين امين
vol. 1 (rubʻal-ʻibādāt). ff. 395. 301 x 208; 233 x 135 mm. 35 lin. Rabīʻ II, 1099.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 252 (commentary 7); S II, 266.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى دبرالانام بتدبىره القوى
vol. 1 (rubʻal-ʻibādāt). ff. 349. 300 x 215; 193 x 115 mm. 33 lin. Shaʻbān 996.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 252 (commentary 7); S II, 266.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى دبرالانام بتدبىره القوى
vol. 2 (nikāḥ-bāb qaṭʻ al-ṭarīq). ff. 321. 300 x 205; 230 x 132 mm. 39 lin. 17th/18th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 252 (commentary 7); S II, 266.Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى دبرالانام بتدبىره القوى
Incip.: ... الحمد لله الموفق لطلب العلم وتحصىلهvol. 1 (ṭahārah-farāʼiḍ). ff. 255. 265 x 181; 175 x 116 mm. 30 lin. 15th cen.Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 681 (commentary 16b).
Physical description: Inside the rim is Sūrah 108 of the Qurʾān in blue and at the bottom is Sūrah 112 in brown. On the outside is Sūrah 108 written in blue again, and the rest of the writing contains many repetitions of "lā ilāha illā Allāh" and "Allāhu akbar." Aside from the minor firing fault at the lip, it is in excellent condition.Origin: Likely made in China for the Islamic market in the 18th century.
Fols. 156; 20 x 14.6 cm.; written surface 15.3 x 8.9 cm.; 17 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:(1) A treatise on Christian theology entitled al-Burhān fī tathbīt al-īmān, a translation by ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʻAbd Allāh, the son of the bishop of Antioch, from the original Greek text of Sophronius, known as Fam al-Masīḥ, d. after A.D. 637. The treatise gives a resumé of the work of the first six church councils and the fundamentals of the Christian faith.Beg.: بسم الله ... کتاب البرهان في تثبىت الاىمان وهوColophon: فهذا ما انعم به علىنا واهب الخىرات المسىح الاهنا تعالى وفتح فانا لامانة البرهان على الاراء الصحىحة السلىمة وابادة فساد المذاهب الوخىمة الذي له المجد مع الاب والروح القدس الان ودائما الى اباد الدهور کلها امىن(2) A treatise on celibacy entitled Maqālah sābiʻah wa-tisʻīn fī-al-batūlīyah by Yūḥannā al-Dimashqī (John of Damascus) d. before A.D. 754.(3) Another treatise on celibacy entitled Risālah fī faḍīlat al-ʻiffah ʻan al-jimāʻ by Īliyā, bishop of Nusaybin (Turkey), sent to his brother, Abū Saʻīd Manṣūr ibn ʻĪsá. In this treatise the author refutes a saying about the impossibility of refraining from sexual intercourse stated in Kitāb al-Ḥayawān of al-Jāḥiẓ, A.H. 255 A.D. 868/9.(4) A treatise on the pre-determination of oneʼs age and provision for living, in the form of an answer to a question put to the Anbā Būluṣ, by Fakhr al-Dawlah ibn Yalmūs al-Kabūrī when the former was about to be ordained bishop of Cairo.Beg.: بسم الله ... مسألة سألها الشىخ فخر الدولة بن ىلموسColophon: تم جواب القدىس انبا بولص والسبح لله دائما. تم(5) A sermon about the cure for sorrow entitled Ṭibb al-ghamm wa-shifāʼ al-ḥuzn wa-al-hamm. The place for the name of the author is left blank.(6) A sermon on the text, ʻʻThere was a certain householder which planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and digged a winepress in it and built a towerʼʼ, Matthew 21:33.(7) A treatise on the computation of the cycles of the sun and the moon entitled Ḥisāb al-kuklus al-shamsī wa-al-qamarī. The treatise calculates the time of fasts and feasts and other ecclesiastical occasions from the year 7160 7215 of the creation.(8) A poem about the events that happened in Aleppo A.H. 1065 A.D. 1655 by ʻUbayd Allāh.MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: "Collection of texts on inheritance law along with a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's arithmetical treatiseAbstract: Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār. Note in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 136b."Contents: 1. fol. 1b-35a: Bāb masāʼil al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-wilāʼ.Contents: 2. fol. 35a-42b: Risālat al-mūṣá la-hu.Contents: 3. fol. 42b-58b: Faṣl fī ʻamal al-munāsakhah bi-al-jadwal wa-yusammá al-Shubbāk aydan.Contents: 4. fol. 58b-67b: Jāmiʻ al-aḥkām fī aṣnāf dhawī al-arḥām.Contents: 5. fol. 67b-69a: Risālah imtiḥānīyah. Concerning Islamic inheritance law.Contents: 6. fol. 69b: Hadith quoted from Sharḥ Mashāriq al-anwār.Contents: 7. fol. 71b-136a: Sharḥ Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār.Contents: 8. fol. 137b-141a: Manẓūmah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Zayd. Poem on inheritance law according to the Zaydī school.Contents: 9. fol. 141b-142a: Bab ul-ebyat li-ahval il-erbain. Poem on inheritance law in Ottoman Turkish.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: 17-25 lines per page; texts 8-9 in two columns. Written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Numerous charts and diagrams. Some dampstaining and foxing; fol. 136 partially torn away. Ms. appears to have been written by a single hand with the exception of texts 8-9 which appear to be later additions. Fol. 70a-71a, 137a, 142b blank.
Abstract: A collection of poems in eulogy of the Prophet and his family and on Ṣūfī love by various authors. Incomplete at the beginning.Binding note: Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue-green patterned paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Stray writing on the upper cover pastedown and the lower cover.Collation: Paper ; fol. 119 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 9 lines per page.Description: Watermarks ; MS in good condition.Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 20 Shawwāl 1198 by the redactor, Saʻd ibn Rajab ʻAntar al-Ṭālibī al-Shāfiʻī al-Shādhilī (fol. 119a).Incipit: تم کلام سيدي الحباكColophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا المجموع في يوم الاثنين العشرين في شهر شوال سنة 1198 على يد کاتبها الفقير سعد ابن رجب عنتر الطالبي بلدا الشافعي مذهباً الشاذلي طريقة غفر الله له ولوالديه امين. تم
Copied A.H. 1138 A.D. 1725/6 by the author ?.Fols. 69; 22.3 x 16.8 cm.; written surface 15 x 7.8 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in clear naskhi; with catchwords; headings in red.A collection of stories and wise sayings on religious, moral and social topics.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله الذي دبرامورنا من فضله وکرمهColophon: جمعها وکتبها بخطﻪ العبد الضعىف المذنب المحتاج الى عفو ربه الغني المصطفى القىرالشهري المتوطن بمرعش غفرالله له ولوالدىه ولجمىع المؤمنىن والمؤمنات بالطافه الواسعات في سنة ثمان وثلاثىن ومائة والف تارىخ سنة 1138Marginal notes and glosses. On page before the first is the basmalah; evidently the copyist intended to begin the MS on this page. After the colophon is a statement that this copy was made in A.H. 1150 A.D. 1737/8. MS in fair condition.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: A collection of stories containing: the story of the Shaykh al-Ḥadabī and Hārūn al-Rashīd; a story about some merchants; the tale of the Shaykh Shams al-Dīn and what befell him with the wisest man; the story of ʻAlī al-Jazzār; also two short paragraphs on magic with magic square diagrams.Binding note: Later? type III (without flap) binding in thick paper.Contents: 1. 1a-12b: Hādhihi Ḥikāyat al-Shaykh al-Ḥadabī maʻa Hārūn al-RashīdContents: 2. fol. 12b-14b: Miscellany including magic squareContents: 3. fol. 15a-18a: Miscellany including magic and a tale of some merchantsContents: 4. fol. 18b-25b: Hādhihi qiṣṣat al-fatá Shams al-Dīn wa-mā jara la-hu maʻa aṣlaḥ al-nāsContents: 5. fol. 25b-34b: Qiṣṣat ʻAlī al-Jazzār wa-mā jarā la-hu maʻa Malik BuʻdādCollation: Paper ; fol. ii + 35 ; catchwords.Description: Written in Maghribi ; rubricated ; final folio replaced by a later hand written in naskhi ; watermarks (crescents?) ; MS in fair condition.Layout: 17-19 lines per page.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Colophon: حكايت الشيخ الحدبي ... والفرق بين الجماعات وهو ملك الموت منوعات 1 تمت بحمد الله وحسن عونه وتوفيقه على يد الفقير الى ربه عبد الله له والم...ين امين امين امين امين امين امين منوعات 2 انتهى الكتاب المبارك سنة تم وصحح وكمل قصة الفتى شمس الدين لتمام والكمال والحمد لله على كل حال تمت صحح تمت قصة علي الجزار تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله على کل کل حال. امين امين ام مIncipit: حكايت الشيخ الحدبي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد منوعات 1 فبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد منوعات 2 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد قصة الفتى شمس الدين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد قصة علي الجزار بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد
Fols. 38; 17.5 x 13.6 cm.; written surface 13 x 10 cm.; 23 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red; with rubrications.A collection containing:1. ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī, a tract on the articles of faith by al-Ṭaḥāwī, A.H. 321 A.D. 933. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 216; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1938.2. al-Sawād al-aʻẓam, a compendium of theology based on 62 questions and answers, by Abū al-Qāsim Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-ḥakīm al-Samarqandī, A.H. 342 A.D. 953.According to the MS the author is al-Bukhārī, A.H. 256 A.D. 870. Cf. ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 629; Brock. I, p. 174.3. al-Hidāyah min al-iʻtiqād, a commentary by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī, fl. ca. A.H. 720 A.D. 1320/1, on Badʼ al-amālī, an ode on the articles of faith by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ūshī, fl. ca. A.H. 569 A.D. 1173/4. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 559; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2409.MS in good condition; Arabic binding. Probably from XVth century.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Copied A.H. 1264 A.D. 1848 by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Jād Allāh.Fols. 442; 24 x 16.8 cm.; written surface 16.5 x 9.8 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:1. A work on judicial decisions according to ḥanafite law, entitled Kitāb Jāmiʻ lil-masāʼil al-muhimmāt fī al-aḥkām muʻīn li-man ibtulī bi-faṣl al-khuṣūmāt min al-fuḍalāʼ al-kirām, by Ibrāhīm ibn ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad Bīrīzādah al-ḥanafī, A.H. 1099 A.D. 1688.2. Another work on judicial decisions according to ḥanafite law, entitled Wāqiʻāt al-muftīn, by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Yūsuf al-ḥanafī al-ḥalabī, A.H. 1107 A.D. 1695/6 (see Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 120, 148). Printed in Būlāq, A.H. 1301 A.D. 1883/4.3. A short treatise on the judicial decisions concerning paying a fine for wounds, entitled al-ʻArūs al-ʻalawīyah fī al-ʻurūsh al-sharʻīyah, followed by another discussing the legitimacy of wearing silk by men, entitled Niʻmat al-qadīr fī-mā yaḥillu lil-rajul min al-ḥarīr, both by Muḥammad Ṭāhir Sunbul.A few marginal notes and glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Fols. 48; 18 x 13-13.5 cm.; written surface 12.2-15 x 9-11 cm.; 19-25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:1. ḥilyat al-ṭirāz fī ḥall masāʼil al-alghāz, a treatise on singular cases in jurisprudence by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Zayd al-Khuzāʻī al-ḥanbalī al-Maqdisī, who flourished ca. A.H. 873 A.D. 1468/9. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5010. Copy was made A.H. 859 A.D. 1455 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maqdisī.2. A short note on oaths and divorce by Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah, A.H. 728 A.D. 1328.3. A discussion on the tradition inna aghbaṭa awliyāʼī ʻindī...4. al-Muʻīn ʻalá fiʻl sunnat al-talqīn, a manual on the liturgical instructions and prayers over the dead in preparation for the catechism by Munkar and Nakīr, by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as al-Nājī, A.H. 900 A.D. 1495. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 644. Copy is probably from XVIIth century.5. Risālah fī al-daʻwah bi-al-majhūl, a discussion of 70 legal cases by ʻAlam al-Dīn Ṣālih al-Bulqīnī, A.H. 868 A.D. 1464. Copy probably from XVIth century.6. A treatise on the ʻIrāqī and Syrian (Shaʼmī) system of weights. The copy was made in A.H. 966 A.D. 1558/9 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kurdī.MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Copied A.H. 1121 A.D. 1709 by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muṣṭafá Qarah Qāḍī.Fols 104; 20.3 x 13.7 cm.; written surface 15.5 x 8 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A collection containing:1. Murshid al-mutaʼahhil, a manual for married life and the mutual duties of parents and children, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Iznīqī, A.H. 821 A.D. 1418. See Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 493; cf. Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2052.2. Īqāẓ al-nāʼimīn, a short treatise asserting that piety and good works for utilitarian ends are void and bad, by Muḥammad ibn Pīr ʻAlī al-Bīrkilī, A.H. 981 A.D. 1573. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8842. On the two folios after the colophon is a fragment of a religious work.3. Dhukhr al-mulūk, a short work extolling the just ruler, condemning the despot and offering advice to potentates, by Muḥammad ibn Pīr ʻAlī al-Bīrkilī. Also known as Naṣīḥat al-mulūk.4. A fragmentary work on religious propriety. The work is incomplete at the beginning.5. al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf, a treatise refuting the idea that the last judgment would fall at the end of a thousand years from the time of Muḥammad. The author is given as Ibn Kamāl Pāshā, A.H. 940 A.D. 1533/4, while in fact the author is al-Suyūṭī, A.H. 911 A.D. 1505. See Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 211/2; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2753 ff.6. Waṣāyā al-Nabī, a collection of exhortations by the Prophet addressed to the Caliph ʻAlī.7. Anwār qudsīyah fī asrār rūḥīyah, an abridgment of earlier works on prayer, worship and the other religious duties. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3554.8. Ḥadāʼiq al-muʼminīn wa-riyāḍ al-muttaqīn, a summary of various earlier works on prayers, ablutions, and ceremonials.MS in fair condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped on cover and flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: A collection of short excerpts including hadith, sayings of the four caliphs, Arabic grammar, and virtues of those named Aḥmad or Muḥammad.Binding note: Later binding. Covered in violet paper with yellow and black pattern.Contents: 1. fol. 1: Quotations from the sayings of the first four caliphs and others; a few traditions with Turkish commentsContents: 2. fol. 2: Discussion on the particles kay, matá and laʻallá based on the opinions of different grammariansContents: 3. fol. 3-4: Discussion on the virtues of those whose names are either Aḥmad or MuḥammadMs. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Marginal notes and glosses. The first folio is slightly smaller and by a different hand. MS in good condition.Collation: Paper ; fol. 4 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 14-22 lines per page.Description: Written in naskhi and Fārisī ; vowel signs on fol. 1 ; MS in good condition.Origin: According to colophon copied 29 Shaʻbān 894 (fol. 4b).
Copied A.H. 1264-67 A.D. 1848-1851 by Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad Falyūzī.Fols. 76; 21.7 x 15.8 cm.; written surface 16 x 9.7 cm.; 21 lines to page; on European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.A collection containing:1. Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, an anti-Christian polemical treatise by a convert, originally a Franciscan friar from Majorca, followed by several notes.2. A treatise containing answers to questions on eschatological matters by al-Ghazzālī, A.H. 505 A.D. 1111 entitled Ajwibat al-masāʼil. This work is also known as al-Ajwibah al-Ghazzālīyah fī al-masāʼil al-Uukhrawīyah. Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1303, 1309.3. A treatise refuting the doctrines of the Jews, establishing the prophethood of Muḥammad and showing the words that have been changed in the Bible, entitled al-Risālah al-hādiyah, by ʻAbd al-Salām al-Muhtadī al-Muḥammadī (see Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 456/7.Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; ruled marginal lines in red. On back of the last page and on the following are several notes about the prophecies concerning Muḥammad in the Bible. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.