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Daiber I Ms. 49

124 folios; 24×17,5 cm;19 lines; Yemenite naskhi. Chapter-headings and single words often in red, green or blue ink. Modern half-leather binding. Copied Jumada II 1350/October 1931 (84r; 85r; 94r) and Rajab 1350/November 1931 (121v) in San'a'/Yemen.

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Contents

  1. [1]

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [1271] fol. 5r - 84r

    Simt al-juman fi sharh al-Risala al-nasiha lil-ikhwan سمط الجمان في شرح الرسالة الناصحة للإخوان

    An extensive commentary on the first half of Imam al-Mansur billah Abd Allah Ibn Hamza Ibn Sulayman إمام المنصور بالله عبد الله بن حمزة بن سليمان (died 614/1217 or 613/1216), al-Risala al-nasiha lil-ikhwan الرسالة الناصحة للإخوان (1 ms. is mentioned GAL I 404 nr. 13). The commentary was finished by the author in 1310/1892 (fol. 84r) and contains numerous heresiographical details based on old Mu'tazilite and Zaidite sources; cf. H. DAIBER, Mu'ammar (see ms.48) p.512 n.2. Two further mss. are Leiden Or. 6360 and 6637(1). The commentary is not mentioned by BROCKELMANN (GAL).

  3. [3] [1272] fol. 85v - 94r

    al-Bahr al-zakhkhar, al-Muqaddima (Bab fi al-milal al-kufriya) البحر الزخار، المقدمة (باب في الملل الكفرية)

    This is a section of a longer work; the author (died 840/1437) and the title of the longer work about fiqh and dogmatics (including in the introduction our chapter about Islamic sects) is not mentioned in the ms. Cf. however the edition by ALI IBN ABD AL-KARIM IBN MUHAMMAD AL-FADIL SHARAF AL-DIN علي بن عبد الكريم بن محمد الفاضل شرف الدين , Beirut 1394/1975, I p.36-51.

  4. [4] [1273] fol. 95r - 121v

    Kitab Khasa'is Amir al-Mu'minin Ali Ibn Abi Talib كتاب خصائص أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب

    On the author (died 303/915) and this collection of traditions about Ali Ibn Abi Talib and his family cf. F. SEZGIN, GAS I (Leiden 1967) 168 (with the title Kitab al-Khasa'is fi fadl Ali Ibn Abi Talib كتاب خصائص في فضل علي بن أبي طالب ). The text is now newly printed in Najaf 1388/1969. On fol. 95r the copyist has added a short biographical note about al-Nasa'i.

  5. [5]

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.