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Summary note
Collection of fatwas according to the Ḥanafī school. On the title page, explanation of the references used in the text (fol. 3a).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
Physical description: 33 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Marginal annotations (gloss and collation notes). European paper. Table of contents on fol. 2a. Short excerpts on legal matters written by the same hand as the main text on fol. 381b-382b Worm-eaten; disbound ; fragile
Chiefly quinions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Some quires towards the end of the volume are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see fol. 253a).
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn Sallāmah al-Abshīhī(?) al-Shāfiʻī, Thursday 21 (or 11) Shawwāl 990 [Nov. 18, 1582] (fol. 380b).
Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله خالق الارواح والاجسام وجاعل النور والظلام ... قال الشيخ الامام الزاهد البارع فقيه الامة ظهير الشريعة محي السنة مقتدي الانام بقية الاسلاف كريم الاطراف افتخار الملة والدين ركن الاسلام في العالمين طاهر بن احمد بن عبد الرشد البخاري نوّر الله تربته واعلى فى الجنان رتبته قد عرفتم اخواني ايدكم الله تعالى ان العلوم كثيرة والاعمار قصيرة
Explicit: وتبطل الثاني لانه يمكنها ان يقول طلبهما الشفعة والخيار والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب
Provenance
Ownership statement dated al-Qāhirah, 990(?) H. on fol. 380b (partly wanting due to worm damage). Ownership with seal on fol. 3a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1002
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 374 (12/2) ; SI
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
233045263
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