كتاب الافصاح على المذاهب الاربعة / تصنيف الامام العالم الرباني عون الدين يحيى بن محمد بن ابي هبيرة الحنبلي

Kitāb al-Ifṣāḥ ʻalá al-madhāhib al-arbaʻah / taṣnīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-rabbānī ʻAwn al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Hubayrah al-Ḥanbalī.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[between 13--? and 1381?]
Description
i, 191, i leaves: paper ; 222 x 157 (157 x 117) mm. bound to 222 x 157 mm.

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    Summary note
    Treatise on the teaching of the different schools regarding legal questions (ikhtilāf al-madhāhib). The text is followed on fol. 184b by two short texts on wuḍūʻ, one attributed to al-Shāfiʻī, the other to al-Nawāfī(?) ; by a text on the names of the Prophet entitled according to the colophon "al-Anwār al-Jalīyah fī sharḥ asmāʼ al-Muṣṭafīyah", attributed to ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Muḥsin al-Wāsiṭī (Text 2, fol. 184b-186a) ; and by a duʻa, incomplete at beginning and end (Text 3, fol. 189a-190b).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 2a).
    • 18-19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Fol. 187-191 are later additions. Kabīkaj and magic square and script on fol. 2a. Collation statement on the lower corner of fol. 184a (partly cut off). Several inscriptions with one obliterated ownership statement on fol. 186b (last fol. of the original ms.). Verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 187a (attributed to Saʻdī ) and 188b. Qurʼanic verses mentioning "Shifāʼ" on fol. 188a. Fol. 190 blank. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "11". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1016".
    • According to the colophon, the al-Anwār al-Jalīyah was copied on Yawm al-Aḥad 9 Ṣafar 783 [May 5, 1381] in a Madrasah Niẓāmīyah (colophon, fol. 186a). The ms. appears however to be from a later date.
    • Incipit text 1 (fol. 2b): كتاب الطهارات اجمعوا على ان الصلوة لا تصح الا بطهارة وجد السبيل اليها لقوله
    • Explicit text 1 (fol. 184a): بين الامة التمسك بما اجتمع عليه ومن روى طايفة واو عصابة اراد بعض اللقة(؟) آخره والحمد لله والصلوة على محمد واله
    • Incipit text 2 (fol. 184b): الحمد لله الذي اعطي جزيلا واولي جميلا ... قال ... عبد الرحمن بن المحسن الواسطى ... اما بعد فان اسما نبينا محمد ... كثيرة قيل هى الف اسم وانى حرصت على الوقوف عليها مجموعة
    • Explicit text 2 (fol. 186a): منه اخذ قسم من الجمال والوسافة ... الثابت والمتيب الراجع الى الله تعالى المفكر فى قدرته تمت
    • Beginning text 3 as extant (fol. 189a): والعفاف والغني ونعوذ بك من جهدك البلا ودرك الشقاء وسوء القصاء ... ونعوذ بك من الشر كله عاجله واجله ما علمنا منه ومن لم نعلم
    Binding note
    Black paper over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Violet paper pastedowns and free endleaf.
    Provenance
    Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed ---? ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dāʻī, with obliterated name of place and Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated 21 Muḥarram [12]80 [July 1863]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 1672
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    اختلاف العلماء
    Title in a note on fol. 2a, refering to Kashf al-ẓunūn
    • Ikhtilāf al-ʻUlamāʼ
    OCLC
    77639565
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