رسالة في الرد على الوجودية ورد اباطيل كتاب الفصوص ... [الخ.].

Risālah fī al-radd ʻalá al-wujūdīyah wa-radd abāṭīl Kitāb al-Fuṣūṣ ... [etc.].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Damascus and Cairo, [1485-1491]
Description
38 leaves : paper ; 178 x 135 (140 x 110) mm bound to 180 x 140 mm

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    Summary note
    Refutation of Ibn ʻArabī's Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, completed on the last day of Rajab 834 [July 1418] (end of copy, fol. 23a). The text is followed by two short texts, written by another copyist, with an ijāzah for each text.
    Notes
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 2a).
    • Marginal annotations. Biographical note on the author of text 1 on fol. 2a. On fol. 33b, statement by the copyist Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī al-Muqrī, dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 896 [1491], stating he received an ijāzah from the author of Kitāb al-Ḥabs fī al-tuhmah, with the signatures of two witnesses. On fol. 37a, statement by the same, stating he received an ijāzah from Kamāl ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī, dated Jumādá al-Ākhirah 875 or 895 [1470 or 1490], signed by the latter (fol. 37a). Inscription "505" in black ink, using Western numerals on the upper cover.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 38 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 23-25 lines per page.
    • Description: Written in in medium small script in black ink ; rubricated ; overlining, re-inking and other use of red.
    • Paper: Light cream paper with pulp visible.
    • Origin: [Fāḍiḥat al-mulḥidīn] Copied for himself by Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsá ibn Abī Bakr ibn al-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Ṭarābulusī al-Ḥanafī, in Damascus in the Zāwiyat al-Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn al-Ḥiṣnī on 17 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 890 [April 1485] (colophon, fol. 23a). This text was collated twice, the second time in Cairo (see collation statements on fol. 23a) -- [Kitāb al-Ḥabs] and [Short treatise ] copied by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī al-Muqrī al-Ḥanafī (Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʻĀmirī al-Ghazzī al-Wafāʼī al-Muqrī al-Ḥanafī, fol. 37a), the first in Cairo, in the Madrasah al-Ashrafīyah Barsbay, on 18 Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 896 [Feb. 1491], the second in Jumādá al-Ākhirah 875 or 895 [1470 or 1490] (most probably the latter) (colophon, fol. 33a and 37a).
    • Incipit: [فاضحة الملحدين] الحمد لله المتعالي عما يقول الظالمون علوا كبيرا والصلاة والسلام المتوالي على نبينا الصادع بالحق بشيرا وتدبيرا ... وبعد فان الله تعالى برحمته خلق العباد وبين لهم سبيل الرشاد -- [كتاب الحبس] ما يقول السادة العلما ايمة الدين رضي الله عنهم اجمعين فى رجل منهم هل يحبس على التهم يوهل حبس النبى ... على التهم ام لا وما نقل عن النبى -- [Short treatise] قال شيخنا العلامة الجبير الفهامة كمال الدين محمود النيسابورى الحنفى اعاد الله علينا من بركات علومه الحمد لله (الروف المتعال والصلوة والسلام على محمد واله وصحبه دوى الجمال) الذى اعطى كل شي ما قبل استعداده وانعم وكرم نوع الانسان بانواع العلوم ... وبعد فقد سالنى من جعله الله مفتاحا لابواب المطالب بالذهن النقاد وصيره ... عن تقديم اسم سيدنا سليمن عليه من الله الصلاة والتسليم على اسم الله الكريم
    • Explicit: [فاضحة الملحدين] قد جاكم بصاير من ربكم فمن ابصر فلتفسر ومن عمى فعليها والله ولي الارشاد واليه ينتهى سبيل الرشاد ومن يضلل الله فما له من هاد قال مولفه رحمة الله عليه فرغ من تاليفه العبد ... محمد بن محمد بن محمد الحنفى البخاري تاب الله عليه وغفر له ولوالديه يوم الجمعة سلخ شهر رجب ... فى شهور سنة اربع ثلاثين وثمانمايه والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم -- [كتاب الحبس] لا دافع لحكمه ولا راد لمراده والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب والحمد لله اولا واخرا وله الحمد باطنا وظاهرا وسلامه على خير محمد زاله وسلم -- [Short treatise] وجوابه بما يتعلق بمقتضى ظاهر الاية وليكن هذا اخر الكلام فى هذا المقام اللهم ... ان منكرات الاخلاق والاعمال والاقوال والاهوا برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين هذا اخر كلام شيخنا العلامة كمال الدين كمال العجمى الحنفى نزيل دمشق(؟) المحروسة وفقه الله وايانا لما يحب ويرضى
    Binding note
    Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper over paper pasteboards. Paper pastedowns. Traces of a now wanting envelope flap.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 2a-23a: Risālah fī al-radd ʻalá al-wujūdīyah wa-radd abāṭīl Kitāb al-Fuṣūṣ musammāh bi-Fāḍiḥat al-mulḥidīn wa-nāṣiḥat al-muwaḥḥidīn kāshifah ʻan ʻawār abāṭīl al-mutaṭallibīn / taʼlīf Abū al-Faḍl ʻAlā al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī.
    • 2. fol. 23b: [Eight lines in verse and prose on friends and friendship] (Gharīb al-dār laysa lahu ṣadīq ...)
    • The same verses are quoted in al-Maḥāṣin wa-al-aḍdād by al-Jāḥiẓ].
    • 3. fol. 24a-33a: Kitāb al-Ḥabs fī al-tuhmah / Saʻd al-Dīn al-Dayrī al-Ḥanafī. Treatise on the question of detention before trial. On the title page chapter (bāb) mentioning charms to write in order to stop hemorrhage and to prevail over enemies.
    • 4. fol. 33b: Ijāzah. A statement by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī al-Muqrī, dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 896, stating he received an ijāzah from the author, with the signatures of two witnesses.
    • 5. fol. 34a-37a: [Short treatise discussing the reasons for placing the name of Solomon before that of God in Koran 27:30] / Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nīsābūrī al-Ḥanafī. Treatise followed by an ijāzah for the copyist, dated Jumādá al-Ākhirah 875 or 895, signed by the author, Kamāl ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (fol. 37a).
    • 6. fol. 37b-38a: [Inscriptions] Faded out due to water damage.
    Provenance
    On fol. 24, reading statement ("ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-majmūʻ") in the name of ʻUmar Ibn Yūnus Ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥanafī. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1580.
    • Yahya, O. Histoire et classification de l'oeuvre d'Ibn ʻArabī, vol. I, p. 115-116
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 144 (8/3)
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    Place name(s)
    • Syria Damascus
    • Egypt Cairo
    OCLC
    129654304
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