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Title
تحفة العباد بما يجب عليهم الاعتقاد ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-ʻibād bi-mā yajibu ʻalayhim al-iʻtiqād ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4353Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/rr172372q
Publisher
[1400-1599]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
79 leaves : paper ; 180 x 135 (130-150 x 87-103) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 109, 255, 2329, 2625, 4047.
Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 994 (45); S II, 103 (no. 23).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-7b: Tuḥfat al-ʻibād bi-mā yajibu ʻalayhim al-iʻtiqād. The authorʼs ijāzah for the copyist Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Sālim, dated Muḥarram 895.
2. fol. 8a-13a: Īḍāḥ al-tāmm li-bayān mā yaqaʻu fī alsinat al-ʻawāmm wa-yaḥṣulu bi-hi al-inbizām li-takbīr al-malik al-ʻallām wa-al-tahlīl wa-al-salām. Urjūzah on correct pronunciation of the takbīr and tahlīl.
3. fol. 14a-49a: Kalām ʻalá masʼalat al-Qurʼān.
4. fol. 54a-71b: Durrah al-muḍīyah fī al-radd ʻalá Ibn Taymīyah.
5. fol. 72a: Shiʻr qālahu al-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Muftī Maḥmūd al-Dashtī.
6. fol. 72b-73b: [Poems] / Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn.
7. fol. 75b-78b: Qaṣīdah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd. This is al-Maqṣūrah al-ṣughrá, not al-kubrá.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Layout: 17-20 lines per page.
Incipit: [تحفة العباد] يقول ابوالفضل المحب محمدا * لربى شکر لا يزال مجددا -- [الايضاح التام] الله جل وتعالى اکبر * من کل شيء قدره لا يقدر -- [الكلام] الحمد لله الولى الحميد ... سألت اعزك الله ... عن مذهب علم الاشعرية فى مسئلة القران وما وجه الصواب فيها عندهم ... وبيان فساد قول الحشوية ... بانهم يقولون القران مخلوق -- [الدر المضية] الحمد لله الذى ارسل رسوله بالهدى ... اما بعد فانه لما احدث ابن تيمية -- [قصيدة] لا ترکننّ الى الهوى * واحذر مفارقة الهواء

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Subject
Arabic language—Pronunciation—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islam—Apologetic works—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800
Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm 1263-1328
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
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File Count
86

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Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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