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Collection Daiber II
Ms_no 37
Item_no 2064
Item Description Abu al-Fath Ahmad Ibn Sa'id أبو الفتح أحمد بن سعيد (Ms. Berlin 2065: Abu al-Fath Muzaffar Ibn Ahmad Ibn Mas'ud al-Hanafi أبو الفتح مظفر بن أحمد بن مسعود الحنفي ): Aqidat bayan al-iman wa-al-shari'a عقيدة بيان الإيمان والشريعة. Our Ms. has no title; the author is mentioned in GAL S II 994 no. 51 among those who cannot be identified. Our text, of which a second copy is Ms. Berlin 2065 (copied 1093/1682), sets out to prove that belief and law consist of 20 aspects, of which five are related to the heart (qalb قلب ), five to the tongue (lisan لسان ), five to the extremities of the body ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ (jawarih جوارح and five to other limbs (kharij al-jawarih خارج الجوارح ). The text gives definitions of central terms like iman إيمان, islam إسلام, ihsan إحسان, tawhid توحيد, shari'a شريعة, din دين, ijma' إجماع etc. The author follows the Hanafite doctrine.
Folios fol. 20v - 32r
Genre Fiqh: religious duties

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Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo