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Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī li-Badʼ al-amālī
Creator
قاري الهروي، علي بن سلطان محمد، -1605 or 1606.
Title
Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī li-Badʼ al-amālī, [17--] / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī.
ضوء المعالي لبدء الأمالي، [17--] / علي بن سلطان محمد القاري الهروي.
Physical Description
1 v. ([35] leaves) ; 23 cm.
Language
Arabic; Turkish, Ottoman
Notes
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī wajaba wujūd dhātih wa-thabuta karamuhu wa-jūduhu wa-shahida ṣifātuh wa-ẓahara[t] afʻāluhu al-ḥamīdah fī ṣaḥāʼif maṣnūʻātih wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá zubdat makhlūqātih wa-ʻumdat mawjūdātih wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi wa-atbāʻihi fī ḥarakātihi wa-sakanātih. Ammā baʻdu, fayaqūlu al-multajī ilá ḥaram rabbihi al-bārī ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī ... fa-sanaḥ bi-bālī ... an aṣnaʻa sharḥan mūjazan ʻalá qaṣīdat Badʼ al-amālī ... wa-sammaytuhu Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī li-Badʼ al-amālī fa-aqūlu ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي وجب وجود ذاته وثبت كرمه وجوده وشهد صفاته وظهر[ت] أفعاله الحميدة في صحائف مصنوعاته والصلاة والسلام على زبدة مخلوقاته وعمدة موجوداته وعلى آله وأصحابه وأتباعه في حركاته وسكناته. أما بعد، فيقول الملتجي إلى حرم ربه الباري علي بن سلطان محمد القاري ... فسنح ببالي ... أن أصنع شرحًا موجزًا على قصيدة بدء الأمالي ... وسميته ضوء المعالي لبدء الأمالي فأقول ..."
15 x 2.5 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 18.5 cm, 18 lines per page.
Modern binding.
In clear nastaʻlīq script; in black ink, on white paper; with the verses of al-Ushī's Badʼ al-amālī, and keywords and markings in red; catchwords.
Commentaries on the margins in Ottoman Turkish.
Colophon: "... Fa-nasʼalu Allāh taʻālá an yarḥama al-nāẓim wa-jamīʻ mashāyikhinā al-kirām wa-ābāʼinā wa-aslāfinā al-fikhām wa-an yakhtuma la-nā wa-li-aḥibbāʼinā bi-al-īmān wa-an yarizqanā al-maqām al-asná maʻa al-nabīyīn wa-al-ṣiddīqīn wa-al-shuhadāʼ al-ṣāliḥīn wa-salām ʻalá al-mursalīn wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn ..."
الخاتمة: "... فنسأل الله تعالى أن يرحم الناظم وجميع مشايخنا الكرام وآبائنا وأسلافنا الفخام وأن يختم لنا ولأحبائنا بالإيمان وأن يرزقنا المقام الأسنى مع النبيين والصديقين والشهداء الصالحين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين ..."
In Arabic.
Provenance
Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
Summary
Manuscript on Islamic doctrines by ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī, d. 1605 or 6, a prolific and leading Ḥanafī scholar from the city of Herat (Afghanistan) who lived and died in Mecca, being a commentary on Badʼ al-amālī a treatise in verse by ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Ūshī (12th cent.), also a Ḥanafī scholar from the region of Farghanah (Farghona), Uzbekistan. Name of copyist, place and date of copying not mentioned, probably in the 18th century in Turkey.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2011
References
ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī, Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī li-Badʼ al-amālī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī, Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī li-Badʼ al-amālī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - Turkey - 18th century.
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