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Kashf al-ghummah ʻan jamīʻ al-ummah : al-niṣf al-thānī

Creator
Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566.
شعراني، عبد الوهاب بن أحمد، حوالي 1493-1565 أو 1566.
Title
Kashf al-ghummah ʻan jamīʻ al-ummah : al-niṣf al-thānī / lil-Shaʻrānī. -- 1785.
كشف الغمة عن جميع الأمة : النصف الثاني / للشعراني. -- 1785.
Physical Description
275 leaves ; 22 x 16.5 cm.
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from: Brockelmann, II, 337. In manuscript, inside front cover, by a modern hand: al-niṣf al-thānī min Kashf al-ghummah lil-Shaʻrānī.
Compared with the printed edition, Cairo, 1864 or 5.
Incipit: "[Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-]Raḥīm ... [Kitāb al-bayʻ. Wa-fīhi bayān al-amr bi-al-kas]b wa-ādābih. Kāna Anas ibn Mālik, raḍiya Allāh [ʻanh], yaqūlu: Samiʻtu Rasūl Allāh ... yaqūlu: ʻAllama Allāh ... Ādam ... alf ḥirfah min al-ḥiraf ..."
البداية: "[بسم الله الرحمن الـ‍‍]ـ‍‍رحيم ... [كتاب البيع. وفيه بيان الأمر بالكسـ‍‍]ـ‍‍ب وآدابه. كان أنس بن مالك، رضي الله [عنه]، يقول: سمعت رسول الله ... يقول: علّم الله ... آدم ... ألف حرفة من الحرف ..."
Fair naskhī, in red and black.
Islamic binding, in brown.
The first half wanting.
Colophon: "Wa-kutibat hādhihi al-nuskhah li-ajl ... ʻĪsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭāʼī ... taḥrīran fī yawm al-Jumʻah, fī bīst duvvuhum shahr-i Rabīʻ al-Ākhir, sanat 1199 ..."
الخاتمة: "وكتبت هذه النسخة لأجل ... عيسى بن أحمد الطائي ... تحريرًا في يوم الجمعة، في بيست دوهم شهر ربيع الآخر، سنة 1199 ..."
Translation of the colophon: "This copy was written for ... ... ʻĪsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭāʼī ... dated, Friday, 22 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir, year 1199 [of the Hijrah = 4 March 1785] ..."
Provenance
Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Summary
A corpus of traditions; the second half of the work only.
Preceded and followed by 2 leaves of notes.
Copied in A.H. 1199 (A.D. 1785).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Brockelmann, II, 337; S II, pp. 465-66.
ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad al-Shaʻrānī, Kashf al-ghummah ʻan jamīʻ al-ummah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad al-Shaʻrānī, Kashf al-ghummah ʻan jamīʻ al-ummah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 18th century
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