فتوى. رسالة النقشبندية

Title:

فتوى. رسالة النقشبندية

Creator:

Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 3-1574 or 5.

Contributor:

ابو السعود محمد بن محمد

Date:

1765

Description:

Abstract: Elegant copy of several texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on religious topics.Binding note: Brown leather over thin paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central mandorla and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 2a: Verses of poetry by Fuzulî-i Bağdâdî, Nazârî Efendi and Ilmî Efendi, with mention of the dates of events such as the death of Kemalpaşazade, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (al-Jurjānī), Jāmī, etc..Contents: 3. fol. 2b-3a: Blank.Contents: 4. fol. 3b-4b: Several short excerpts.Contents: 5. fol. 5a: Blank.Contents: 6. fol. 5b-8a: Fatwá Abū al-Suʻūd Afandī in Ottoman Turkish / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-afʻāl al-ikhtiyārah.Contents: 7. fol. 8b-12a: Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 12b-15a: Risālat al-Naqshbandīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khādimī.Contents: 9. fol. 15b-17a: Blank.Contents: 10. fol. 17b-43b: Waṣāyā / Abū Saʻīd Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Khādimī.Contents: 11. fol. 44a-45b: Blank.Contents: 12. fol. 46a: Nuktah sabʻah ḥākim fī waqt sabʻah at the end of the page: Min al-Sabʻīyāt.Contents: 13. fol. 46b-48b: Several short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, some excerpted from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī.Contents: 14. fol. 49a-55a: Verses attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʼ, etc..Contents: 15. fol. 55b-56a: Risālah fī bayān iṣṭilāḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth Title in table of contents: Muṣṭalaḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth; Definitions of several terms, starting with "mawqūf", "munqaṭaʻ", "muʻaḍḍal".Contents: 16. fol. 56b-57a: Blank.Contents: 17. fol. 57b: Taskhīr-i kabīr or Taskhīr-i qulūb Short text describing how to read a verse of the Fātiḥah each day of the week. On the margin, mention of al-Shaykh al-Karkhī.Contents: 18. fol. 58a: Blank.Contents: 19. fol. 58b-59b: Ṭabaqāt al-tābiʻīn min Kitāb al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 20. fol. 60a: Blank.Contents: 21. fol. 60b-62b: Several prayers, some for travelers, attributed to Sayyid ʻAlīʹzādah Aḥmad, Abū al-Suʻūd, al-Zamakhsharī, al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʻī.Contents: 22. fol. 63a-66a: Blank.Contents: 23. fol. 66b-67a: Risālah fī bayān ṭabaqāt al-masāʼil / ʻAlī Çelebi Efendi Hayâlîzade (or: Hayânîzade) Title supplied according to ms. Leiden, 1884, with author: ʻAlī Çelebi Qinālīzāda; title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ li-Hayâlî Zade ʻAlī Çelebi; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī taḥqīq anwāʻ al-masāʼil ʻinda al-Ḥanafīyah; see GAL II, 433/10.Contents: 24. fol. 67b: Blank.Contents: 25. fol. 68a: Fī ziyādat al-ʻumr wa-nuqṣānihi bi-al-ʻamal / Ibn al-Kamāl.Contents: 26. fol. 68b: Blank.Contents: 27. fol. 69a-92b: Several short texts in prose and verse, comprising a Qaṣīdah li-Abī ʻAlī Ibn Sīnā fī majiʼ al-rūḥ bi-al-qālib(?); several short texts and ḥadith commenting on the meaning of some words and on questions related to exegesis, excerpted from al-Sabʻīyāt, Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, Sharḥ-i Kāfīyah, Sharḥ al-Kashshāf, Firdaws al-akhbār, etc., and attributed to Saʻd al-Dīn, Ibn Kamāl (fī --? al-Tajrīd), al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, ʻImād Kātibī, Jawharī, Ḥasan Çelebi, etc.; a text explaining what a mufassir should know (fol. 70b); questions and answers in Ottoman Turkish attributed to Abū al-Saʻūd (fol. 75a-78b); Waṣiyat Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī (fol. 79b; four lines); Munājāt Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻArabī (fol. 79b; six lines); a text mentioning the names of the Aṣḥāb al-Kahf; a text "fī quṭb al-athwāb" (fol. 81a); prayers and duʻaʼ, some in verses, and other verses of poetry attributed to Zayn al-Dīn al-Wardī, Ghars al-Dīn ibn Khalīl, al-Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣafadī, Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥājirī, Abū al-Faraj al-Waʼwaʼ, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bustī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suhaylī, al-Imām al-Nūrī (or al-Ghazālī, praising the Fātiḥah), al-Ghazālī in the Iḥyāʼ, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Wakīl, Munājāt of Shihāb al-Dīn (fol. 89b), al-Shāfiʻī, Saʻd al-Dīn, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sābiq, Ibn Rāwandī, ʻAlī, Ibn Fāris al-Lughawī, Abū Ismaʻīl, etc. (fol. 81b-92b); talisman on fol. 91a.Contents: 28. fol. 93a-94a: Waṣiyatʹnāmah / Mullā Khosraw.Contents: 29. fol. 94a-b: Several ḥadīth.Contents: 30. fol. 95a: Blank.Contents: 31. fol. 95b-97b: Mā ruwiya ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās fī tartīb al-anbiyāʼ.Contents: 32. fol. 98a: Names of the pre-Islamic Kings, from the Kitāb Bidāyat al-nihāyah, in Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 33. fol. 98b-139a: Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif wa-kāshif al-asrār / Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Samarqandī Title in table of contents: Tārīkh ṣaghīr al-musammá bi-Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif; title in Mach, R. Yahuda, following Kashf al-ẓunūn: Laṭāʼif al-afkār wa-kāshif al-asrār; the date Rabīʻ I 991 1583 is mentioned at the end of the text.Contents: 34. fol. 139b-141b: Blank.Contents: 35. fol. 142a-150a: Kitāb ʻUrf al-taʻrīf bi-al-mawlid al-sharīf / lil-Imām al-ʻallāmah al-shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī.Contents: 36. fol. 150b-151a: Blank.Contents: 37. fol. 151b-161a: Kitāb al-Indhār bi-wafāt al-nabī al-muṣṭafá al-mukhtār / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-shaykh al-muḥaqqiqīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Dāʼūd al-Ḥanbalī al-Dimashqī al-Ṣāliḥī Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-mutaʻallaqah bi-wafāt al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam.Contents: 38. fol. 161b-164a: Blank.Contents: 39. fol. 164b-169a: Risālat al-saqīfah / Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-khulafā bi----? al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam.Contents: 40. fol. 169b-170b: Risālah fī aḥkām al-sabb / Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥusām Çelebi Title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī sabb al-Nabī.Contents: 41. fol. 170b: Waṣiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf.Contents: 42. fol. 171a-183b: Kitāb al-Munabbihāt li-istiʻdād yawm al-mīʻād / Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī Title in table of contents: Munabbihāt li-Ibn Ḥajar; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād.Contents: 43. fol. 184a: Qaṣīdah / li-Mawlānā Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.Contents: 44. fol. 184b-186b, l. 5: Fiqh al-Kaydānī (or: Maṭālib al-muṣallī) / Luṭf Allāh al-Kaydānī Title in table of contents: Risālah fī anwāʻ al-mashrūʻāt fī ākhirihi Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl; see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1732.Contents: 45. fol. 186b, l. 5-187a: Risālah fī ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ / Ibn Kamāl Pāshā Title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl.Contents: 46. fol. 187b-188a: Risālah fī jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī wa-istijābih / al-muʼallif Bustān al-ʻārifīn Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī li-Bustān al-ʻārifīn.Contents: 47. fol. 188b-190b: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawj sic bi-al-riwāyah al-ṣaḥīḥah Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawjah, followed by an excerpt from Mukhtār al-Ṣaḥīḥ and from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī.Contents: 48. fol. 191a-193a: Short texts in Ottoman Turkish and in Arabic on dhikr.Contents: 49. fol. 193b-196b: Several short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish on the Kalimat al-tawḥīd.Contents: 50. fol. 197a: Blank.Contents: 51. fol. 197b-206b: Anonymous commentary on al-ʻAḍudīyah; Title at the beginning of text: Risālah sharīfah lil-Qādī ʻAḍud muʼallif al-Mawāqif; title at the end of text: al-Risālah al-sharīfah fī al-akhlāq; title in table of contents: al-Akhlāq al-ʻAḍudīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Sharḥ al-ʻAḍudīyah fī al-akhlāq.Contents: 52. fol. 206b-207b: Risālah fī labs al-maṣbūgh title from table of contents.Contents: 53. fol. 207b-208a: Sharḥ ʻAlī al-Qārī.Contents: 54. fol. 208a-b: al-Marātib al-khams al-qalbīyah title from table of contents / ʻAbd al-Salām, known as Başmakcızade, written in 1164-1165 H. 1751 (colophon, fol. 208b).Contents: 55. fol. 209a: Short saying attributed to Ibn Sīnā on girls of different ages, starting with: "Bint ʻashr lūz muqashsharah naẓarahā al-nāẓirīn").Contents: 56. fol. 209b-214a: Three short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on the Qurʼān and ḥadīth, ending with an excerpt from Kitāb al-ʻaql wa-al-naql by Taqī al-Dīn, quoting Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-ʻIbādī, entitled in the table of contents "Man yuḥkam bi-kufrihi wa-man lā yuḥkam lil-Qāsim al-ʻIbādī".Contents: 57. fol. 214b-216b: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-Khiḍr ʻalayhi al-salām incomplete at end / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-Khidrīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Kashf al-khidr ʻan amr al-Khiḍr.Contents: 58. fol. 217a-219a: Blank.Contents: 59. fol. 219b-254a: Risālah min ʻilm al-muḥādarah / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Title from table of contents; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Laṭāʼif al-ishārāt fī al-muḥāḍarāt wa-al-muḥāwarāt. According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn col. 533 (s. v. Jālib al-surūr) and col. 1551 (s.v. Laṭāʼif...), this is an abridgment of Jālib al-surūr wa-sālib al-ghurūr of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qarabāghī, d. 942/1535: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 566 (2), S II, 638; Chester Beatty Library: A handlist of the Arabic manuscripts, 5239. Identical with Muḥādarāt wa-muḥāwarāt, Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 57 (11a), Arabic manuscripts in the Yale University Library, 463.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.20 to 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Fol. 19 dyed in yellow. The paper has been frame-ruled. The text is framed within a gold and black border. In the texts in verses, verses are separated by gold borders (see fol. 87a). Illuminated headpices (ʻunwān) and divisions of the page with a floral motif in gold, pink, red green and white (fol. 2a, 4b, 12b, 17b, etc.). Hāshiyah written in a minaret shaped border on the margin of fol. 12b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Majmaʻ". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 208/2".Some texts are copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir, one of the disciples (tilmīdh) of Abū Bakr al-Marāshid in 1179 H. 1765 or 6 (fol. 161a). Others by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Khalīfah (Mehmet Halife) , known as Qurrah faqīh al-Lārandī from Lārandah (Larende or Karaman), in Anatolia, in 1180 H. 1766 or 7 (fol. 208b).

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Dictionaries
Headpieces (layout features)
Illuminated manuscripts
Biography
Early works to 1800
Prayers and devotions

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355?—Akhlāq al-ʻaḍudīyah

Provenance:

From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (note on fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

iii, 256, ii leaves: paper ; 205 x 155 (157 x 80) mm. bound to 208 x 160 mm.

Publisher:

1765 or 1766

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 225Y
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