Manuscript, on paper, containing Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb, Polemics against Christianity, preceded by the author's autobiography. A short version
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Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb 880-01, Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb, تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب 240-01/r, and تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب
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In Arabic., Copied in A.H. 1269 (A.D. 1853)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Hādhā Kitāb Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-munazzah ʻan al-ḥulūl wa-al-ittiḥād, al-muqaddas ʻan al-tathlīth wa-al-mawlūd wa-al-awlād, wa-al-munqidh lil-ḥaqq baʻda al-ḍalālah, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad al-khātim lil-risālah, wa-ʻalá ālihi al-rāshidīn fī kull ḥālah, mā ḥaqqa al-ḥaqq wa-zuhiqa al-bāṭil, wa-mā anṣafa ʻinda samāʻ al-ḥaqq kull ʻāqil. Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu rājī ʻafwa Rabbihi al-Karīm, al-faqīr ilayhi ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm: Qad aṭlaʻanī Allāh ʻalá hādhihi al-risālah, wa-hiya tusammá 'Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb' ...", The author was a Christian convert from Majorce., Script: Fair naskhī, in red and black., Binding: Modern library binding., Decoration: Rubricated., Foliated in modern pencil., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb al-musammá bi-'Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb'. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdahu. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá man lā nabī baʻdahu. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn. Wa-qad tamma al-risālah ʻalá yad afqar al-ʻibād, wa-aḥwajihim ilá Allāh taʻālá, al-Sayyid Aḥmad ibn Sayyid Ṣāliḥ ibn Sayyid al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Sayyid al-Ḥājj Bākīr ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Afandī, ghafara Allāh lahum wa-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn, wa-li-man daʻá la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min nuskhah al-mubārakah yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, waqt al-ḍaḥwah al-ṣughrá, fī shahr Jumādá al-Awwal, alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼatayn wa-tisʻah wa-sittīn min baʻd al-Hijrah al-Muḥammadīyah [February/March 1853], ʻalayhi afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-taslīm. Sanat 1269. Sanat 1269."