شكر المنة في نصر السنة

Shukr al-minnah fī naṣr al-sunnah.

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[17--?]
Description
60 leaves : paper ; 205 x 147 (147 x 89) mm.

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    Summary note
    Polemics against the Ibādīyah by a muftī of Tripoli, comprising an introduction, four chapters (bāb), and a conclusion. The end of the latter is missing.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 13-14).
    • The name of the author does not appear in the ms., but the author frequently refers in the text to his teacher ʻAlī al-Ujhūrī (d. 1066/1656). According to Mach, following the Īḍāḥ al-maknūn, the author is Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maknī al-Mālikī, muftī in Tripoli (d. ca. 1100/1688). See Ismāʻīl Pāshā al-Baghdādī. Īḍāḥ al-maknūn fī al-dhayl ʻalá Kashf al-ẓunūn (1945-47), vol. 2, col. 53.
    • 22 lines per page. Written in Maghribī script, in black ink with use of red, yellow and purple ink. The text is framed by a double fillet in red ink. Glazed light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible.Fol. 30 is a later replacement. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on fol. 1a: "raqm 62 [or 63?]".
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 60 ; 1-6¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
    • Incipit: بسم ... صلى الله على ... الحمد لله الذى اعلا منار الدين واوضح منهاج الحق.. وبعد فان بعض الفقرا الصادقين
    • Explicit: \\ ومنها ترك الصلاة وتاخيرها عن وقتها ... فى نهار رمضان بغير غرر شرعى
    Binding note
    Unbound.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 2632
    Other title(s)
    الرد على الابادية المسمى شكر المنة في نصر السنة
    Title by a later hand (fol. 1a)
    • al-Radd ʻalá al-Ibādīyah al-musammá Shukr al-minnah fī naṣr al-sunnah
    OCLC
    69257879
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