الشفاء / للفقيه القاضي الامام ابي الفضل عباس بن موسى بن عياض اليحصوبي

al-Shifāʾ / lil-faqīh al-qāḍī al-imām Abī al-Faḍl ʻAbbās ibn Mūsá ibn ʻIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣūbī

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[14--?]
Description
iii, 225, i leaves : paper ; 314 x 215 (216 x 150 and 267 x 180) mm. bound to 314 x 215 mm.

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    Subject(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Summary note
    Treatise on the devotional obligations of the Muslims towards the Prophet, followed by an ijāzah (text 1). The volume contains also a collection of forty ḥadīth (text 2).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 2a).
    • 21 long lines per page (text 1) and 35 long lines per page (text 2). Text 1 is written in very clear large naskh and text 2 in medium small naskh, using black ink with red for headings and punctuation. Illuminated title page in gold and blue. Light cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible. Frame-ruled (101 mm.). Fol. 21 is a later replacement on glazed European paper. Collations notes (collation statement on some fol., see fol. 36a) and other annotations in the margins. Ownership statements on fol. 2a (one dated [1]234 H. [1818-19]). Table of contents by a later hand on fol. (i) and 1. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starting with 1 on fol. 2). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counting fol. (ii) as fol. 1).
    • On fol. 224b : Ijāzah by ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Daymī(?) for Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Majd al-Dīn Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUthmān al-Dimyāṭī al-Maḥallī al-Mālikī, dated Thursday 23 Jumādá al-Ulá 884 [August 1479].
    • Text 2, which seems to be by the same hand as text 1, was copied by Muḥammad al-Qādirī(?) Imām al-Umawī al-Ḥanafī bi-al-madrasah al-Umawīyah(?) (colophon, fol. 226b).
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 225 ; a (endpaper) + ii (later European paper with watermark) + 225 + i (later European paper, with another watermark) + b (endpaper).
    • Incipit (text 1, fol. 2b): بسم ... وصلى الله ... قال الفقيه القاضى الامام ابو الفضل ... الحمد لله المنفرد باسمه الاسما المختص بالملك الاعز الاحمى ... اما بعد اشرق الله قلبي وقلبك بانوار اليقين ولطف لي ولك بما لطف به لاولياءه المتقين
    • Explicit (text 1, fol. 224a): ولا يرد دعوة القاصدين ولا يصلح عمل المفسدين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل وصلواته على نبينا محمد خاتم النبيين وسلّم تسليماً كثيراً الى يوم الدين
    • Incipit (text 2, fol. 225b): الحمد لله ... والصلى الله على ... وبعد فهذه حوادث خرجها بعض العلما الاعلام فى اسطناع المعروف للمسلم نفع الله بها الحديث الاول عن انيس رضى الله عنه ان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال الخلقُ كلُهُم عيالُ الله فاحبُّ خلقِه اليه انفعُهم لعياله
    • Explicit (text 2, fol. 226b): الحديث الاربعون عن ابن عمر رضى الله عنهما قال قيل يا رسول الله اي العمل احب اليك قال انفع الناس للناس
    Binding note
    Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboard, with gold painted decoration. Blue paper pastedown, except on the doublure of the fore-edge flap which has a gold painted decoration. This binding presents similarities with the binding of Princeton, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 50L.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. (i)b-1b : [Table of contents].
    • 2. fol. 2a-224a : al-Shifāʾ bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-musṭafá / ʻIyāḍ ibn Mūsá.
    • 3. fol. 224b : [Ijāzah].
    • 4. fol. 225b-226b : [Collection of forty ḥadīth].
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 4501
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 369 (5/1)
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 630 (5/1)
    Other title(s)
    • الشفاء بتعريف حقوق المسطفى
    • كتاب الشفاء
    Title in the beginning of text (fol. 2b, l. 9)
    • al-Shifāʾ bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá
    Title on tail
    • Kitāb al-Shifāʾ
    OCLC
    68569903
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