[Five Arabic treatises on Islamic law and doctrine].

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1708-1712]
Description
177 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (142 x 95) mm bound to 210 x 158 mm

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    Summary note
    A collection of four Hanafite treatises on doctrine and law plus a commentary on a Zaydi doctrinal treatise.
    Notes
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Ms. erroneously foliated 1-175 beginning on fol. 2a. Record follows erroneous foliation. On front cover: Label reading "Mujammaʻ 5" in Arabic script. Inserted at end of ms.: 8 leaves of blank paper plus one leaf containing part of a commentary on a text on prayer. Leaves between texts have been canceled. Fol. 37, 109b, 146b blank. List of texts by a later hand on verso of front endpaper.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 175 + ix ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 23 lines per page.
    • Description: Written in naskh in black ink ; rubricated ; MS in excellent condition but some damp staining on first two leaves in upper left corner.
    • Origin: [Qurrat al-ʻayn] Copied 3 Jumādá al-Thānī 1124 H. [8 July 1712] by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh Badīr al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 109a) -- [Risālat al-taqlīd] Copied Text 3: 16 Jumādá [al-Thānī] 1124 H. [21 July 1712] (fol. 122a) -- [Sharḥ al-ʻaqīdah] Copied towards the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1119 H. [February 1708] (fol. 176 [sic])
    • Incipit: [ضوء الجواهر] الحمد لله ... قد وقع الاختلاف ... فى مسافر من مکة الى جدة هل هى مسافة سفر ام لا -- [قرة العين] الحمد لله الذى رفع العلماء برفع مقامهم ... وبعد فيقول -- [مروضة] الحمد لله الهادى بتوفيق اقتدا ايمة الهدى -- [بديع المعاني] الحمد لله الذى هدانا لهذا ... وبعد فان اعظم العلوم -- [شرح العقيدة] الحمد لله الذى انعم علينا وهدانا للاسلام
    Binding note
    Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Blind-tooled fillets.
    Language note
    Arabic.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. iib-36b: Ḍawʼ al-jawāhir al-muʻaddah li-ibānat subul qaṣr al-ṣalāh bi-ṭarīq Juddah / Raḥmat Allāhʹzādah al-Ḥanafī al-Anṣārī. Treatise on the legitimacy of shortening prayers when traveling from Mecca to Jedda.
    • 2. fol. 38b-109a: Qurrat al-ʻayn sharḥ risālat al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Zayn / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammadʹzādah al-Anṣārī al-Ḥanafī. Commentary on Ibn Nujaymʼs Taḥrīr al-maqāl fī masʼalat al-istibdāl, a treatise from his al-Fatāwá al-Zaynīyah.
    • 3. fol. 110b-122a: Risālat al-taqlīd al-murawwiqah al-mutasammīyah bi-al-Murawwiḍah / Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Shaykh Yūsuf al-Abdīnī. Treatise on taqlīd from the Hanafite perspective.
    • 4. fol. 123a-146a: Badīʻ al-maʻānī sharḥ ʻAqīdat al-Shaybānī / al-ʻAllāmah Ibn Qādī ʻAjlūn al-ʻIrāqī.
    • 5. fol. 147b-174b: Sharḥ al-ʻaqīdah allatī allafahā al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh / Abī Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī thumma al-Madanī al-Shāfiʻī.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1179, 1344, 1806, 2208, 2344
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 179 (VIII); S I, 291.
    • Murādī, M. K. Silk al-durar, I, 6, lin. 5.
    OCLC
    719444191
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