بيان شهيد.

Bayān-i Shahīd.

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Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1565]
Description
95, i leaves : paper ; 203 x 150 (135 x 110) mm. bound to 203 x 155 mm.

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    Summary note
    Treatise on Imāmī fiqh. Left incomplete by the author.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from spine label.
    • Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʼ dotted. European paper. The beginning of the text is apparently a later replacement (fol. 2). Fol. 1 in the modern foliation is a fly-leaf with name of the author on the recto. Fol. 95 detached.
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied for al-Shaykh Nājī ibn al-Shaykh Hamzah [Nājī ibn Hamzah], his brother in God, Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 973 [2 crossed out] [1565] (fol. 95a).
    • Incipit: بسم ... وبه الاستعانة والتوكل الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا يستدر اخلاف كرمه ... اما بعد فان الادلة العقلية والنقلية متطابقة على شرف العلوم ومن اهمها معرفة الحي القيوم
    • Explicit: الفصل الثالث في الامساك وفيه مطالب الاول فيما يسك عنه وهو اقسام الاول الابتلاع يجب ه الى هنا انتهى فنهى كلام المص
    Binding note
    Bound in leather (camel color). Both covers are similarly blind tooled with a border consisting of a running pattern of impressions of a s-shape stamp outlined by two fillets on each side. The central area defined by the border has two fillets crossing in the middle, thus forming a "x". Paper pastedown and free endpaper.
    Provenance
    Impression of an oval seal (200 mm.) on fol. 2b.
    References
    Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 120
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    البيان في الفروع
    Title in Mach-Ormsby
    • al-Bayān fī al-furūʻ
    OCLC
    229364889
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