Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459 محلي، جلال الدين محمد بن أحمد، 1389-1459
Published / Created:
1620.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 956
Image Count:
190
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A treatise on Islamic law according to the Shāfiʻī tradition by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥallī (1389-1459), an Egyptian, Shāfiʻī, Qurʼān and Islamic law scholar, from Cairo (Egypt), being a commentary on "Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn" of al-Imām al-Nawawī (Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf, 1233-1277), a well-known and prolific scholar from the village of Nawá in Ḥawrān (Syria), an authority on the Hadith and Islamic law. The present manuscript is part of the original work, covering the subjects (Bayʻ to Raḍāʻ "Sales to Breastfeeding"). Copied on Sunday, 17 Rabīʻ al-Thānī of the year 1029 of the Hijrah (22 March 1620). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title supplied by Hartford Seminary., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālih. Kitāb al-Bayʻ. Huwa ka-qawlika biʻtuka hādhā bi-kadhā, fa-yaqūlu ishtaraytuhu bi-hi, fa-yataḥaqqaqu bi-al-ʻāqid wa-al-maʻqūd ʻalayhi, wa-lahumā shurūṭ taʼtī, wa-al-ṣīghah allatī bihā yuʻqad, wa-badaʼa bihā ka-ghayrihi, li-annahā ahamm, lil-khilāf fīhā, wa-ʻabbara ʻanhā bi-al-shurūṭ, khilāf taʻbīrihi fī Sharḥ al-Muhadhdhab, ka-al-Ghazzālī ʻan al-thalāthah bi-arkān al-bayʻ, fa-qāla sharṭuhu al-ījāb, ka-biʻtuka wa-mallaktuka, wa-al-qabūl, ka-ishtaraytu wa-tamallaktu wa-qabiltu, ay, lā yaṣiḥḥu al-bayʻ bidūnihimā, li-annahu manūṭ bi-al-riḍá ...", Secundo folio: yaqbal ʻalá wafq al-ījāb., 20 x 27.5 cm; written surface: 12 x 19.5 cm; 29 lines per page., Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap; dark red leather on spine and flap., In clear medium naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the phrases of al-Minhāj in red; few notes and corrections on the margins; some wormholes on cover; catchwords., On folio 1a: An ownership statement: "Ṣāra hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak jārī fī milk ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad Jād al-Fiqī, bi-Masjid al-Ustādh Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī, fī shahr Rajab sanat 1211 [December 1796/January 1797], ʻammat barakātuh.", Colophon: "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min tamām hādhā al-rubʻ al-mubārak yawm al-Aḥad al-mubārak, sābiʻ ʻashar Rabīʻ al-Thānī, sanat 1029, tisʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf.", and Translation of the colophon: "This blessed quarter was completed on blessed Sunday, 17 Rabīʻ al-Thānī, of the year 1029 [of the Hijrah = 22 March 1620]."
Subject (Name):
Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459. and Nawawī, 1233-1277.
