كتاب الشفاء بتعريف حقوق المصطفى صلى الله عليه وعلى آل وصحبه وسلم / تأليف القاضي الامام الفاضل عياض بن موسى بن عياض اليحصبي رحمه الله

Kitāb al-Shifāʾ bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam / taʾlīf al-qāḍī al-imām al-fāḍil ʻIyāḍ ibn Mūsá ibn ʻIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣabī raḥimahu Allāh.

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[Egypt, between 14--? and 1577]
Description
184 leaves: paper ; 268 x 185 (185 x 125) mm. bound to 270 x 200 mm.

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    Summary note
    Treatise on the devotional obligations of the Muslims towards the Prophet.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from illuminated title page (fol. 2a).
    • Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible; frame-ruled. Fol. 1 and 184 are later additions (European paper). Collation notes on the margin. Verses of poetry on fol. 1a. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including price and ownership and reading statements. Large stamp erased throughout. Stained.
    • Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in gold, blue, and black on fol. 2a. The upper part of the page bears a rectangular panel (120 x 50 mm.) outlined in blue with flecks at each outer corner, with a cartouche bearing the title on a gold and blue ground. Roundel in gold and black outlined in blue to the left of the panel. A scalloped roundel consisting of two interlocking trefoils occupies the centre of the page. The surface defined by the roundel bears the end of the title on a ground left plain. The roundel is outlined in blue with small flecks.
    • Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "Rābiʻ al-Shifā" on fol. 32a).
    • Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "AUT S 75" (repeated on fol. 1a).
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Raḍiy al-Ḥanafī (fol. 182b).
    • Incipit: بسم ... وما توفيقى الا بالله عليه توكلت واليه اتيت الحمد لله المنفرد باسمه الاسمى المختص بالملك الاعز الاحمى ... اما بعد اشرق الله قلبي وقلبك بانوار اليقين ولطف لي ولك بما لطف به لاوليايه المتقين
    • Explicit: ولا يرد دعوة القاصدين ولا يصلح عمل المفسدين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله واصحابه وازواجه وعترته الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم تسليماً كثيراً ابدًا الآبدين والحمد لله رب العالمين
    Binding note
    Bound in brown leather with flap. Both covers ahve a large blind stamped lobed mandorla. Smaller stamp on the envelope flap. Rebacked; fore-edge replacement. Poor condition.
    Provenance
    Several ownership and reading statements on fol. 2a, including one dated 985 H. [1577 or 8] ; one in the name of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khiḍr al-Azharī al-Shāfiʻī, khaṭīb bi-al-Jazīrah al-Khaḍrā [Egypt] (repeated on fol. 182b). Several ownership and reading statements on fol. 182b-183b, including a signed selling statement from Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf to ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Taqī al-Dīn al-Tīzīnī al-Shāfiʻī; one signed reading statement and ijāzah stating that the volume was read by several people with al-Shaykh Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn al-Banūfarī al-Mālikī, in a Madrasah in al-Jazīrah al-Khaḍrāʾ, during several years, the last session on 26 Ramaḍān 987 [1579] ; five reading statements and ijāzah from the same Banūfarī, dated 989, 990 to 993, 994, 995, 996. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 4501
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 369 (5/1)
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 630 (5/1)
    OCLC
    237188386
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