كتاب الاشارات الى بيان الاسماء المبهمات / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة الزاهد محيي الدين ابي زكريا يحيى بن شرف بن مري بن حسين بن محمد النواوي الشافعي مما اختصره من كتاب الحافظ ابي بكر الخطيب البغدادي وما لحقه به رحمهما الله تعالى وغفر لهما انه على كل شيء قدير.

Kitāb al-Ishārāt ilá bayān al-asmāʼ al-mubhamāt / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-zāhid Muḥyī al-Dīn Abī Zakaryā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf ibn Mrī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Nawāwī al-Shāfiʻī mimmā ikhtaṣarahu min Kitāb al-ḥāfiẓ Abī Bakr al-khaṭīb al-Baghdādī wa-mā laḥiqahu bihi raḥimahumā Allāh taʻālá wa-ghafara lahumā innahu ʻalá kull shayʼ qadīr.

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[ 1429]
Description
46, i leaves : paper ; 180 x 138 (125 x 95) mm. bound to 180 x 145 mm.

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    Summary note
    An abridgment of al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī's Asmāʼ al-mubhamah, on difficult names of transmitters of ḥadīth, with additions, completed during the night of Wednesday 20 Shaʻbān 667 [April 24, 1269] (see note by the collator on the margin of the colophon, fol. 45b).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naksh in black ink with use of red for entries, re-inking and overlining. Soft light-cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. The text has been collated (see collation statement on fol. 45b). Erased inscription on fol. 1a. Cut off seal(?) or inscription on the margin of fol.2. Fol. 1 loose. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits a leaf between fol. 30 and 31).
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 46, i ; 1-3¹⁰ 4¹⁰ (+1, end of quire) 5⁴ (+1, beginning of quire) + i (later added fly-leaf; European paper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
    • Origin: Copy completed on Friday 26 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 832 [April 2, 1429] by Abū Bakr ibn Ḥasan ibn Abī Bakr al-Kurdī. This copy was made from a copy made from the copy of al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn, muḥaddith in Aleppo (colophon, fol. 45b).
    • Incipit: الحمد لله باري المصنوعات ومدبر المحدثات ومصرف الالسن واللغات ... اما بعد فان علم الحديث من انفس العلوم الشرعية واولى ما رغب فيه اصحاب الانفس الزكية ... [3أ] ... حرف الالف حديث عن ابي ابن كعب رضي الله عنه قال سمعت رجلا يقرا فقلت من اقراك
    • Explicit: وهذا الباب واسع جدا وفيما اشرت اليه كفاية ولا يليق به [45ب] زيادة عليه وبالله التوفيق فهذا اخر ما تيسر وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته وسلامه على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين
    Binding note
    Quarter bound with flap (off-white paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap; golden brown leather spine and fore edge flap). Paper pastedowns (leather doublure on fore-edge flap).
    Provenance
    Ownership statement in the name of ---? Aḥmad [---] al-Bīlawī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 815
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 397/XV ; SI
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    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    166926946
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