Manuscript, on paper, containing Tuḥfat al-labīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, or a text containing Polemics against Christianity, preceded by the author's autobiography
Alternative Title:
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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Copied in A.H. 1244 (A.D. 1828)., In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh, al-rājī karīm al-ṣafḥ ʻan dhanbihi al-ʻaẓīm, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān, laṭafa Allāh bi-hi wa-bi-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn, Āmīn, bi-mannihi wa-faḍlihi wa-karamihi, Āmīn: Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn ʻalá al-qawm al-kāfirīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khaṣṣanā bi-khayr al-adyān, wa-jaʻalanā min ummat Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-ʻAdnān, wa-akramanā bi-tilāwat al-Qurʼān, wa-ṣawm shahr Ramaḍān ...", The author was a Christian convert from Majorce., Script: Fair naskhī, in red and black., Binding: In paper covered cardboard, Type II (with flap); light brown leather on the spine of the cover and the flap., Decoration: Rubricated., Foliation in modern pencil., and Colophon: "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min taswīd hādhā al-kitāb waqt adhān al-ẓuhr, yawm al-Sabt, laylat al-Aḥad, 8, li-thamān layālin maḍat min shahr Allāh al-ḥarām, iftitāḥ ʻām 1244 [21 July 1828], ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAlī al-Saqqā, khādim al-fuqarāʼ, laṭafa Allāh bi-hi." To the right of the colophon: An ownership statement: "Mimmā manna Allāh taʻālá al-ʻAlī ʻalá ʻabdihi al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr ʻAlī." To the left of the colophon: "In raʼayta ʻayban fa-sudda al-khalalā // tabqá ʻinda al-nāsi fī ʻayn al-malā. Wa-lā tuʻāyir man fīhi ʻaybun // jalla man lā fīhi ʻaybun wa-ʻalā."
