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Subject(s)

• Abū Yazīd Bisṭāmī, Ṭayfūr ibn ʻĪsá -874? [Browse]
• Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr 858 or 9-922 [Browse]
• Qurʼan Sūrat al-Qamar 1. [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—12th century [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Predestination (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Motazilites—Criticism and interpretation—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslim saints—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufis—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Waqf—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

• Ṣābūnī, Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd, -1184. Bidāyah min al-Kifāyah. [Browse]
• Ṣābūnī, Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd, -1184. Kifāyah fī al-hidāyah. [Browse]
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372-1449. [Treatise on waqf]. [Browse]
• Silafī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1180. Correspondence. [Browse]
• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144. Correspondence. [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 112; 18 x 13.5 cm.; written surface 14-15 x 8-10 cm.; 10-19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.
• A collection containing:
• 1. Bidāyah min al-Kifāyah, by Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Ṣābūnī, an abridgment by the author of his own work on metaphysics which is entitled al-Kifāyah fī al-Hidāyah. MS incomplete at the end. Probably from XIIIth century.
• 2. Several legal questions and their answers relating to the mortmain property of Abraham in Hebron by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, A.H. 852 [A.D. 1449]. MS probably from XVIIth century.
• 3. A correspondence between Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Salafī, A.H. 576 [A.D. 1180] and al-Zamakhsharī, A.H. 538 [A D. 1144]. MS probably from XIVth century.
• 4. A fragment of a work on the lives of the ascetic. This contains the lives of Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī, A.H. 261 [A.D. 875] and al-Ḥallāj, A.H. 309 [A.D. 922].
• 5. Ḥadīth inshiqāq al-qamar, the tradition of ʻthe splitting of the moonʼ (Sūrah LIV:1). MS probably from XVth century.
• Marginal notes. MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

Other title(s)

Ḥadīth inshiqāq al-qamar.

OCLC

1340421328

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