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:
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:
Copied in A.H. 690 (A.D. 1291)., In Arabic., 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., 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."
ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378 عثماني، محمد بن عبد الرحمن، ناشط 1378
Published / Created:
1498.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 610
Image Count:
484
Resource Type:
text
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
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.", and 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] ..."
Subject (Name):
Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489. and ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378.
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.
