Title from ff. 1r and 2v.Written in a naskh hand in black ink, 13 lines per page; some phrases and the text commented upon in red. Marginal notes and corrections on some pages are in hand of the copyist. There are catchwords on the verso of each leaf. The text is framed within double red lines. Headpiece (f. 2r).Date from colophon (f. 57v) which also names the copyist as Muḥammad ibn Saʻd al-Dīn al-Asadī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī. The ms. was probably copied in Egypt.The book is followed by two short prayer books and a poem by Shaykh Raḍīwī al-Miṣrī al-Ṣaʻīdī al-Farshūṭī, written in the same hand: Ḥizb al-lāmiʻ (ff. 57v-64v) -- al-Ṣalawāt (ff. 64v-68r) -- Manẓūmah (f. 68v).Glazed paper. 18.5 x 13.8 cm. (13.8 x 7.7 cm.).Bound in half leather with flap.MS Arab 123. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Cream laid paper.Copied in 1282 1865 or 6 (f. 30r).Bound with: Risālah fī al-ijāzahli-Manṣūr ibn Salīm al-Iskandarī (ff. 1r-12v).MS Arab SM4327. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.