Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, approximately 1042- author أبو شجاع الإصفهاني، أحمد بن الحسين، approximately 1042- author
Published / Created:
1291.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 226
Image Count:
63
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, containing Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī's Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār, a Concise manual of Shafiʻi law
Alternative Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Shāfiʻī 880-02, Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Shāfiʻī, مختصر في الفقه على مذهب الشافعي 240-02/r, and مختصر في الفقه على مذهب الشافعي
Description:
In Arabic., Copied in A.H. 690 (A.D. 1291)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Khayr al-Nabīyīn, Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi ajmaʻīn. Qāla al-Qāḍī al-ajall al-Imām Abū Shujāʻ Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad aḥsan Allāh tawfīqahu: Saʼalanī baʻḍ al-aṣdiqāʼ, ḥafiẓahum Allāh, an aʻmala mukhtaṣaran fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Shāfiʻī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu, fī ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār wa-nihāyat al-ījāz, yaqrubu ʻalá al-ʻālim darsahu, wa-yashulu ʻalá al-mubtadī ḥifẓuhu ...", On folio 31b: A statement dating the birth of a child named Yaḥyá, the night of Saturday, 5 Rabīʻ al-Awwal, of the year 676 of the Hijrah (13 August 1277), as follows: "Wulid al-walad al-aʻazz al-afḍal khalaf al-quḍāh wa-al-afāḍil wa-al-aʼimmah wa-al-ʻulamāʼ, Jalāl al-Millah wa-al-Dīn, Yaḥyá, abqāhu Allāh taʻālá, waqt nawmat al-nās, laylat al-Sabt, ṣabāḥuhā, al-khāmis min shahr Rabīʻ al-Awwal, sant sitt wa-sabʻīn wa-sittimiʼah.", Script: Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black., Binding: In brown leather, Type III (without flap); cover deteriorated., Decoration: Rubrication., Foliated on every fifth leaf in modern pencil., and Colophon: "Tamm bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ḥusn tawfīqihi fī al-thāmin ʻashar min Rajab, sanat tisʻīn wa-sittimiʼah [24 July 1291], bi-yad Sulaymān ibn Maḥmūd ibn Abī al-Fatḥ, ḥāmidan lillāh wa-muṣallīyan ʻalá Nabīyihi."
Copied by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in A.H. 660 (A.D. 1261 or 1262).
Description:
On the scribe, cf. Huart, Les calligraphes et les miniaturistes de l'Orient Musulman, Paris, 1908, p. 84 ff., Pasted in is an ALS by Richard J.H. Gottheil in October 29, 1931 to Henry Fletcher describing this manuscript., Calligraphic microscopic naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in blue and gold on leaf 1 verso., Islamic binding, much younger, gilt, with flap., Colophon: "Katabahu Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī sanat sittīn wa-sittimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "Written by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in the year 660 [of the Hijrah = 1261/1262]."
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, Henry Prather, 1873-1959., Gottheil, Richard J. H. 1862-1936. (Richard James Horatio),, and Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī, -1299?