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Daiber I Ms. 8

161 folios; 21×15 cm; 21-24 lines; naskhi; titles and beginnings of the chapters are written in yellow ink. Paper sometimes slightly damaged. Between fol.61 and 62v a loose folio with glosses; also between 112v and 113v: a folio with an extract in Turkish from al-Maghnisawi المغنساوي , Sharh al-fiqh al-akbar شرح الفقه الأكبر (by Abu Hanifa أبو حنيفة ). - Modern half-leather binding. Copied in 1182/1768 (112v; 149v) by Ahmad Ibn Ibrahim in the Madrasat Sakhmanara at Janpur.

IIIF Collection

Contents

  1. [1] fol. 1r - 4r

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [1031] fol. 4v - 112v

    Zubdat al-wa'izin fi bayan kalam rabb al-alamin زبدة الواعظين في بيان كلام رب العالمين

    The text is not mentioned in GAL but can be found in Hajji Khalifa (Kashf al-zunun III nr. 6840), also without author. The beginning of the text as transmitted by Hajji Khalifa proves the identity of both texts. It is a compendium (mukhtasar مختصر ) in 48 chapters of which 6 chapters should be studied every week. The text is a devotional book containing much material from Islamic law, the Koran, tradition and legends. We find anecdotes about al-Hasan al-Basri الحسن البصري (9r; 14r; 51v; 57v; 64r; 65r; 71v; 76r; 90v; 109r), figures of the Old Testament, sometimes with Wahb Ibn Munabbih وهب بن منبه as source (55r6; 79r9; 88r14; 109r); legends about Jesus (49r; 101r; 103r; 105v), about Abd al-Rahman Ibn Firdaws عبد الرحمن بن فردوس (76v), Abu Dharr al-Ghifari أبو ذر الغفاري (45r), Abu Mansur al-Maturidi أبو منصور الماتريدي and his 80 years old teacher shortly before his death (61r14ff.); Ali Ibn Abi Talib علي بن أبي طالب (40r; 75r, -3ff.); Abu Ja'far al-Tayyar أبو جعفر الطيار (67r); Mansur Ibn Uthman منصور بن عثمان (58v; 59r); Ma'ruf al-Karkhi معروف الكرخي (77v, ult.ff.); Sultan Mahmud سلطان محمود and lyas إياس about the question of standing before the Sultan as a mark of esteem (cf. on this K. DILGER, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des osmanischen Hofzeremoniells im 15. und 16. Jh., München 1967, p.77f.; H. KINDERMANN, Über die guten Sitten beim Essen und Trinken, Leiden 1964, p.131f.); Sahl Ibn Abd Allah (= al-Tustari?) سهل بن عبد الله (التستري ؟) 34r and 45r; Uthman عثمان (70v); Yahya Ibn Sulayman يحيى بن سليمان (78r). Most of the cited sources belong to Hanafite circles of the 6th/11-12th century. The Fatawi فتاوي by Bazzazi البزازي (= Hafiz al-Din Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Bazzazi حافظ الدين محمد بن محمد البزازي who died 827/1424 see GAL II 225; S II 316) on fol. 21v8 form the terminus post quem of this text. It must have been composed between 827/1424 and 1067/1657 (death of Hajji Khalifa). It is not only a collection of Hanafite rules of Islamic law but also an important compilation from sometimes old and rare sources. In the margin the copyist has added many glosses, mainly philological explanations in Turkish of single expressions; the source is Akhtari أختري or Akhtari kabir أختري كبير (8v; 15v; 24r etc.) = most likely the Arabic-Turkish dictionary of Mustafa Ibn Shams al-Din al-Qarahisari al-Akhtari مصطفى بن شمس الدين القرحساري الأختري (died 968/1560 see GAL S II 630; cf. ms. Berlin 7000 and 7001). - Many glosses are ascribed to a man called "(al-)Qadi القاضي " (16r; 20r; 27r etc.), some to "Rajab رجب " (28r; 98r; 100r) or "Rajabiya رجبية " (27v; 28r; 68r) ; cited texts are the Masabih مصابيح (106v), the Sharh masabih شرح مصابيح (20v) or al-Masabih wa-sharhuhu المصابيح وشرحه (97v) = perhaps Masabih al-sunna مصابيح السنة by al-Husayn Ibn Mas'ud al-Farra' al-Baghawi الحسين بن مسعود الفراء البغوي which has been commented many times (see GAL I 363 nr. 1 and S I 620 nr. 1); the Jami' mawa'iz al-Bukhari جامع مواعظ البخاري (5r; 5v; 22r); Mishkat al-anwar مشكاة الأنوار (30r; 30v) = perhaps the title mentioned in GAL S I 751; Kashf al-haqa'iq كشف الحقائق (17v); Shaykhzade شيخ زاده , al-Hashiya lil-Qadi al-Baydawi الحاشية للقاضي البيضاوي (4v; cf. GAL S I 739 nr. 12 and S II 650); Tabyin al-maharim تبيين المحارم (5r; according to GAL II 387 and S II 452 and 524 acribed to Sinan al-Din Yusuf Ibn al-Wa'iz سنان الدين يوسف بن الواعظ who wrote around 1000/1591), al-Ta'rifat التعريفات (10r); Tibyan تبيان (16r); Mukashafat al-qulub مكاشفة القلوب (30r; by al-Ghazzali الغزالي see GAL I 425 nr. 61 and S I 755 nr. 61); Fara'id فرائد (31r); Umar al-Nasafi عمر النسفي (46v; cf. GAL I 427; S I 758); Bahjat al-anwar بهجة الأنوار (54r); al-Tanbih التنبيه (65v); al-Ihya' wa-al-rawda الإحياء والروضة (66r); Tafsir al-Shaykh تفسير الشيخ (98r) etc. - Our text is cited in the anonymous collection of sayings by the prophet in the ms. Berlin 1646/2 (written around 1200/1785).

  3. [3] [1032] fol. 113v - 149v

    Kitab ahwal al-qiyama = Daqa'iq al-akhbar fi dhikr al-janna wa-al-nar كتاب أحوال القيامة = دقائق الأخبار في ذكر الجنة والنار

    This eschatological text has neither title nor author; it is identical with the text which is edited by M. WOLFF, Muhammedanische Eschatologie, Leipzig 1872 and with the numerous editions bearing the title Daqa'iq al-akhbar دقائق الأخبار etc., see GAL S II 420; cp. S I 346). - In the margin the copyist has added philological notes from al-Akhtari الأختري (see preceding text). fol. 153v-160r A collection of excerpts from the following texts

  4. [4] [1033] fol. 153v - 154r

    Jila' al-qulub جلاء القلوب

    see GAL II 440 nr. 5; S II 654 nr. 5). See ms.17, fol. 71v-91v.

  5. [5] [1034] fol. 154r - 154v

    Anwar al-tanzil أنوار التنزيل

    154r13-154v9.

  6. [6] [1035] fol. 154v

    Tafsir تفسير

    cf. GAL I 196 nr. 1; S I 347 nr. 1.

  7. [7] [1036] fol. 155v

    Mukashafat al-qulub مكاشفة القلوب

    cf. preceding text, glosses.

  8. [8] [1037] fol. 155v - 156r

    Tafsir kabir تفسير كبير

    a commentary on Sura 30, 41 (40) fol. 155v18-156v, ult.

  9. [9] [1038] fol. 157r - 157v

    Tanbih al-ghafilin تنبيه الغافلين

    perhaps by (GAL I 196 nr. 4; S I 348 nr. 9) fol. 157r1.

  10. [10] [1039] fol. 157v - 158v

    A fragment of a commentary on Sura 87, 14 fol. 157v19-158v7.

  11. [11] [1040] fol. 158v - 160r

    Fadilat laylat al-qadr فضيلة ليلة القدر

    An treatise on fol. 158v7-160r (incomplete at the end). There are a few glosses in the margin of the excerpts mentioned.

  12. [12]

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.