Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah : manuscript and رحمة الأمة في اختلاف الأئمة : مخطوطة

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Title: Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah : manuscript
رحمة الأمة في اختلاف الأئمة : مخطوطة
Alternative Title: Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah 880-02
Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah
Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah
Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah
Raḥmat al-ummah
رحمة الأمة في اختلاف الأئمة 240-02/r
كتاب اختلاف الأئمة، المسمى، رحمة الأمة
اختلاف الأئمة، المسمى، رحمة الأمة
اختلاف الأئمة
رحمة الأمة
Creator: ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378
عثماني، محمد بن عبد الرحمن، ناشط 1378
Contributor: Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489.
Published / Created: 1498.
Publication Place: Selânik, Turkey
Abstract: Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aimmah "Mercy of the nation in the differences of the scholars." A treatise on the different opinions and interpretations of leading Islamic law scholars pertaining to legal matters, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUthmānī (active 1378), a Shāfiʻī Islamic law scholar, originally from Damascus (Syria) who became the Qāḍī (Chief Judge) of Ṣafad. The author finished writing his treatise on Tuesday, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī (9 March, 1379), in Ṣafad (Tsefat, Israel). Copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī (or al-Jaʻbarī ?) al-Hāshimī on Saturday, 12 Ramaḍān, 903 (13 May, 1498) in the city of Salānīk (Selânik, Turkey), from the copy which had been copied in Muḥarram, 855 Hijrī (February/March, 1451) by Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqriʼ al-Azʹharī (1407 or 1408-1489), a well-known Egyptian muqriʼ "Qurʼan reciter" and Qurʼanic scholar
Description: In Arabic.
Title from folio 2a.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī ajzala iḥsānah wa-anzala Qurʼānah wa-bayyana fīhi qawāʻid dīnih wa-arkānah, thumma jaʻala ilá Nabīyih bayānah, wa-awḍaḥa dhālika li-aṣḥābih fī ḥayātih, thumma tafarraqū baʻda wafātih yabtaghūna faḍlan min Allāh wa-ruḍwānih ..."
Secundo folio: ṭarīqah wa-aḥsan namaṭ.
12.5 x 17.5 cm; written surface: 8.5 x 12.5; 15 lines per page.
Binding: In dark brown leather binding with flap (in 24 numbered quires), central medallion on both covers.
In good naskh script; in black ink, on white paper; headings and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords. Some parts of the manuscripts are replaced in different hands: folios 1b-7b (written surface: 9 x 15 cm, 21 lines per page, in fair naskh taʻlīq script); folios 53a-54b (written surface: 9.5 x 14.5, 15 lines per page, in fair ruqʻah script).
Pages also numbered in Indian numerals: 1-474.
Text folios 1b-236b (pages 1-472).
Includes an elaborate index of contents: Folios 237a-237b (pages 473-474).
On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah, taʼlīf al-ʻĀlim al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī, taghammadahu Allāh bi-ruḍwānih. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn."
On the margin of page 472: "... Ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sibāhī bi-Dimashq al-maḥrūsah, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-man daʻá la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Fī tāsiʻ wa-ʻshrīn shahr al-Ḥijjah sanat arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn [year not mentioned]."
Author's colophon: "Qāla muʼallifuhu, raḥimahu Allāh raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-barakatihi wa-ʻilmih, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī: Faraghtu min taʼlīf hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak fī laylah yusfiru ṣabāḥuhā ʻan nahār al-Thulāthāʼ, ḥādī ʻashar Dhī al-Qaʻdah al-ḥarām, sanata thamānīn wa-sabʻimiʼah bi-rabḍ Ṣafad, ḥamāhā Allāh taʻālá."
Translation of the author's colophon: "The author (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, the Chief Judge of Ṣafad), may God have abundant mercy upon him, and may He benefit us by his blessing and knowledge, said: I finished writing this blessed book on Tuesday morning, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī [9 March, 1379], in the city of Ṣafad, may God protect it."
Copyist colophon: "Qāla kātibuhu al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-al-dhanb wa-al-taqṣīr, al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-qadīr, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban: Katabtuhu min nuskhah waqaʻat bi-yadī bi-madīnat Salānīk min arḍ al-Rūm, maktūb fīhā: Qāla kātib hādhihi al-nuskhah bi-yadihi al-fāniyah li-nafsih wa-liman shāʼa Allāh min baʻdih, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī nazīl al-Qāhirah al-maḥrūsah, fī shahr Allāh al-Muḥarram al-ḥarām, sanat khams wa-khamsīn wa-thamānimiʼah. Wa-faraghtu min kitābatihi yawm al-Sabt baʻda al-ẓuhr bi-madīnat Salānīk al-madhkūrah fī thānī ʻashar min shahr Ramaḍān min shuhūr sanat thalāth wa-tisʻmiʼah. Allāhumma ighfir lanā wa-li-wālidaynā wa-li-mashāyikhinā wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn, yā Rabba al-ʻĀlamīn."
Translation of the copyist colophon: "The copyist ... Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban, said: I copied this copy from a copy I saw in the city of Salānīk ... in which was written: The copyist of this book, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī, copied it for himself ... in Muḥarram, 855 [February/March, 1451]. The present copy was completed on Saturday afternoon, in the afore mentioned city of Salānīk on 12 Ramaḍān, 903 Hijrī [13 May, 1498] ..."
Provenance: Purchased from Palmyra Bookseller on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2006.
Extent: 1 volume (237 leaves) ; 18 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Arabic

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Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Arabic MSS suppl. 610

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Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic 15th century
Arabic manuscripts
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489.
ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378.
Subject (Topic): Islamic law
Shafiites
Subjects: Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489
ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378
Islamic law > Early works to 1800
Shafiites > Early works to 1800
15th century
Arabic manuscripts

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Citation: Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUthmānī, Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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