هذا كتاب شرح المعراج ... [الخ.]

Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ al-Miʻrāj ... [etc.]

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Arabic
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Rajab 1247-28 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1248 [December 1831-April 18, 1833]
Description
(1), 150, (1) leaves : paper ; 222 x 163 (170 x 105) mm. bound to 223 x 170 mm.

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    Summary note
    A collection of texts on topics including the Miʻrāj, forgiveness of sin, and prayer.
    Notes
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 150 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some headings in yellow ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "EAC", shield with a face-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
    • Layout: 15-25 lines per page, ruled.
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • On the folio before title page is a list of the names of the works contained in the MS. There are blank folios between each title. Title page of 4th work (fol. 82a) has a statement on the title page says that the work was completed by Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar ibn Zayn ibn ʻAlawī ibn Sumayṭ Bāʼalawī. After the colophon of the final text (fol. 150b) is a statement by a different and later hand that the work was written by Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn at the request of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf ʻAlawī.
    • Origin: [Sharḥ al-Miʻrāj] Copied Wednesday 17 Shaʻbān 1248 by Sulaymān ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī Mīrdād (fol. 60b) -- [Hādhihi al-Mubashshirāt] Copied Friday 28 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1248 by Sulaymān ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī Mīrdād (fol. 79b) -- [Kitāb Fatḥ al-Raḥmān] Rajab 1247 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAwaḍ al-Shāfiʻī al-Isrāʻī al-Ḥaḍramī al-Shāmī (fol. 106b) -- [Maslak qarīb] Monday 9 Shawwāl 1247 (fol. 150b).
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Colophon: [شرح المعراج] وکان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الکتاب المبارك الشريف ضحى يوم الاربعاء سبعة عشر في شهر شعبان المعظم من شهور سنة 1248 من هجرة النبي الامين صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين على يد کاتبه احقر الورى واقل العباد سليمان بن عبد المعطي ميرداد غفرالله تعالى لهما وختم بالصالحات عملهما والمسلمين اجمعين امين امين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وتابعيه وحزبه -- [مبشرات] تمت النسخة المباركة ضحوة يوم الجمعة 28 ذي القعدة سنة 1248 وصلى الله على سيجنا محمد واله وصحبه وتابعيه وحزبه -- [فتح الرحمن] تم کتاب فتح الرحمن بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه عصريوم الاحد شهر رجب ... سنة 1247 سبع واربعين ومائتين والف بقلم العبد الفقيرالى عفوالله تعالى محمد بن احمد بن عوض ... نسبا الشافعي مذهبا الاشعري اعتقادا الحضرمي وطنا الشامي مسکنا غفرالله له ولوالديه واخوانه واحباه [احبائه] وقرابته وايانا ووالدينا وجيمع المسلمين آمين آمين آمين -- [مسلك قريب] تمت الدعوات والاذکار بعون الملك الستارالغفار. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد المختار وآله واصحابه الابرارالاخيار. کمل الکتاب في ظهر الاثنين تاسع شوال سنة 1247
    • Incipit: [شرح المعراج] بسم الله ... الحمد لله المان على عباده بنعم لا تحصى -- [مبشرات] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي يفوا عن الكثير -- [فتح الرحمن] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الملك العلّام -- [مسلك قريب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي جعل ذکره
    Binding note
    Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Decorative blind-stamped and blind-tooled edging and flap decoration. Endbands.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1a-60b: Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ al-Miʻrāj / Aḥmad Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī. A commentary on the work of al-Ghayṭī on the Ascension of the Prophet entitled Qiṣṣat miʻrāj al-Nabī.
    • 2. fol. 63a-78b: Hādhihi al-Mubashshirāt fī sharḥ al-mukaffirāt / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Kurdī al-Baytūshī. A commentary on the author's own versification of the atoning deeds as they are enumerated in al-Khiṣāl al-mukaffirah li-al-dhunūb al-mutaqaddimah wa-al-mutaʼakhkhirah of Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī.
    • 3. fol. 78b-79b: al-Adʻiyah al-mustaṭābah fī al-Adʻiyah al-mustajābah. An ode with commentary based on Suyūṭī's Sihām al-is̄ābah fī al-adʻiyah al-mujābah.
    • 4. fol. 82a-106b: Kitāb Fatḥ al-Raḥmān fīmā yaḥṣulu bi-hi al-Islām wa-al-īmān / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Waḍḍaḥī. A book on the articles of Muslim faith, ceremonial purity and prayer with a decorative title page.
    • 5. fol. 109b-150b: Maslak qarīb li-kull sālik munīb. A ʻʻmissalʼʼ of Muslim prayer with complete instructions.
    Provenance
    • Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    • Fol. 1a has three ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad Bā Hārūn dated 1248; [name obscured] dated 1252; and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf. al-Saqqāf's signature is repeated on fol. 63a.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 656, 1516, 1567, 1973.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    معراج
    Title on bottom edge
    • Miʻrāj
    OCLC
    1294313684
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