Abstract: Al-Shamāʾil al-Nabawīyah, a treatise on the sīrah of the Prophet, by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.12 lines per page. Written in elegant large Andalusian Maghribi in brown ink with use of red and blue ink and gold leaf for headings and paragraphs. Text within a triple-line frame ruled in red and blue ink. Catchwords on verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Extensive marginal notes in at least two different hands. European paper. No titlepage and a portion of the beginning of the text missing. Extensive water and insect damage to the paper, but the text legible throughout.Label in Arabic on fol. 1a: "Raqm 66".Incipit: مالك بن أنس عن ربيعة بن ابي عبد الرحمان عن أنس بن مالك أنّه سميعه يقول كان رسول الله ... ليس بالطويل البائن ولا بالقصير ولا بالأبيض الأمهوقExplicit: حدثنا محمد بن علي قال سمعت ابي يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر حدثنا محمد بن علي اخبرنا النضر اخبرنا ابن عون عن ابن سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عن من تأخذون دينكم ... و الحمد لله اولا واخرا و الصلاة والسلام على صاحب المقام ... وسلم تسليما
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Title page: al-Mukhtaṣar al-kabīr min sīrat sayyidinā Rasūl Allāh.ff. 55. 187 x 144; 145 x 103 mm. 17 lin. Ṣafar 791, ʻAlī ibn ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Subkī.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 86 (4: no. 1); S II, 78. Ms. Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi Arapc̦a yazmalar kataloğu, 6028 has title al-Mukhtaṣar al-ṣaghīr fī sīrat al-bashīr al-nadhīr.Incip. : ... الحمد لله حمدا ىوافى جزىل نعمائه ... اما بعد فهذا مختصر
ff. 58. 178 x 125; 120 x 78 mm. 17 lin. 737 H. On last fol. autograph ijāzah by the author for the copyist Muḥibb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Khiḍr ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Yamanī, same date.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 86 (4: no. 1); S II, 78. Ms. Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi Arapc̦a yazmalar kataloğu, 6028 has title al-Mukhtaṣar al-ṣaghīr fī sīrat al-bashīr al-nadhīr.Incip. : ... الحمد لله حمدا ىوافى جزىل نعمائه ... اما بعد فهذا مختصر
Abstract: 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).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.Contents: 2. fol. 2a-224a : al-Shifāʾ bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-musṭafá / ʻIyāḍ ibn Mūsá.Contents: 3. fol. 224b : Ijāzah.Contents: 4. fol. 225b-226b : Collection of forty ḥadīth.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 1234 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 المتقينExplicit (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 الدينIncipit (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 لعيالهExplicit (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
ff. 345. 290 x 205; 197 x 125 mm. 25 lin. Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1042 (date in the colophon, fol. 227b).Brockelmann, GAL, II, 392 (3); S II, 415; Berlin 9602 (unidentified).Acephalous - according to note on fol. la, this is the second juzʼ of total eight, but this applies only to fol. 228sqq. The colophon on fol. 227 states correctly that fol. 1-227 contain (part of) the first juzʼ. Partial contents:1b: الباب الحادى عشر فى انواع الوحى16a: ... جماع ابواب بعض الامور الکاىنة بعد بعثه103a: ... جماع ابواب معراجه204a: جماع أبواب بدء اسلام الانصار228a: جماع ابواب الهجرة الى المدىنة الشرىفة285a: ... جماع ابواب بعض حوادث من السنة الاولى والثانىة333b: جماع أبواب المغازى التى غزا فىها ... بنفسه الکرىمةThe text breaks off in the 7th bāb of this section.
ff. 178. 258 x 178; 188 x 130 mm. 25 lin. 15th cen. (beginning and end by a later hand); on fol. 1a note by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad al-ḥanafī, dat. Jumādá II, 1087.Brockelmann, GAL, II, 128 (no. 11); S II, 126 (no. 12).Vol. 2; incip.: ... ذکر هدىة صل ىالله علىه وسلم فى مکاتبته الى الملوك وغىرهم
Abstract: Acephalous anon. work by a Zaydī author of the 6th/7th cent. H. There are frequent references to Shams al-Dīn Jaʻfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Salām (d. 573/ 1177: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 508) from whom the author received traditions. The book is divided into ten bābs (the beginning of the first bāb is missing).Ms. codex.Title from upper edge.On fol. 1a: "al-Sīrah li-Yaḥyá al-Zaydī" in pencil in Arabic script.Ms. erroneously foliated: second leaf is skipped. Record follows erroneous numbering.Physical description: 33 lines per page; written in small naskhi in black on white glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text framed in red border. Headings in large red script. A few marginal notes and corrections. Text on fol. 2a-97b.Origin: Copy completed and validated in Jumādá al-Awwal 1080 H. October 1669, with the support of Yaḥyá ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Amīr al-Muʾminīn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī (d. after 1687) (fol. 97b).The second bāb begins (fol. 4a): ... الباب الثانى فى الحمل به ومولده ... وعدله وبرکته وکراماته ... اخبرنا القاضى الاجل شمس الدىن جمال المسلمىن جعفر بن احمد بن عبدالسلام بن ابى ىحىى رضوان الله علىه مناولة ثم قراة قال اخبرنا
Abstract: Autograph copy of a biography of the Prophet Muḥammad in 1000 rajaz verses (GAL).Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly richly blind- and gold-tooled with a central roundel with geometrical motifs and an elaborate outer frame. The envelope flap has a portion of the same frame, with a roundel on its pointe. Embossed leather doublure.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a)."13 to 16 lines per page. Written in large casual naskh in thick black ink with use of red for decorations and re-inking. Dark cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines (grouped by two and three) visible. Fol. 18-19 are later replacements (light cream glazed paper with chain and laid lines visible). Some words are crossed out with a later version in the margin (see fol. 13a). On fol. (i)a: Ownership statements with seals; waqf mention; inscriptions. On fol. 1a: Title; long note (almost illegible); ownership statements; waqf. Several reading statements in the margin of fol. 4a6aetc. On fol. 37b-40b: Several audition certificates (samāʻ) by the author's handthe last dated 12 Dhū al-Ḥujjah 791 H. 1389. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals."'Autographal-Madīnah (colophonfol. 37b).'Incipit: بسم ... يقول راجى من اليه المهرب عبد الرحيم بن حسين المذنب احمد ربّى باتم الحمد وللصلوة والسلام اهدىExplicit: وساير الاصحاب والولىّ