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Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb : manuscript
Creator
سيوطي، 1445-1505.
Title
Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb : manuscript / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
بشرى الكئيب بلقاء الحبيب : مخطوطة / جلال الدين السيوطي.
Production
Place not identified, 1684.
Physical Description
1 volume (30 leaves) ; 22 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from incipit (folio 1b).
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Hādhā juzʼun laṭīf wa-sammaytuhu Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb, lakhkhaṣtuhu min kitābī al-kabīr alladhī allaftuhu fī aḥwāl al-Barzakh, qaṣartuhu ʻalá al-bushrá bi-mā yalqāhu al-muʼmin ʻinda mawtihi wa-fī qabrihi min al-takrīm wa-al-tarḥīb, wa-billāh al-tawfīq ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين. هذا جزوٌ لطيف وسميته بشرى الكئيب بلقاء الحبيب، لخّصته من كتابي الكبير الذي ألفته في أحوال البرزخ، قصرته على البشرى بما يلقاه المؤمن عند موته وفي قبره من التكريم والترحيب، وبالله التوفيق ..."
Secundo folio: Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam.
بداية الورقة الثانية: الله عليه وسلم.
14.5 x 20.2 cm; written surface: 9 x 15 cm; 19 lines per page.
Binding: In brown leather binding with central medallion; front cover and flap torn off.
In fair naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; with headings and markings in red; catchwords.
On the front of the preliminary leaf an erased ownership statement.
On folio 1a: "Kitāb Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb, taʼlīf Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-kāmil, al-rāsikh al-ʻārif billāh taʻālá, al-ṣādiq al-khālid, al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī, aʻāda Allāh taʻālá ʻalaynā wa-ʻalá al-Muslimīn min barakātih. Āmīn. Āmīn. Āmīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam."
على وجه الورقة 1: "كتاب بشرى الكئيب بلقاء الحبيب، تأليف سيدنا ومولانا الشيخ الإمام العالم الكامل، الراسخ العارف بالله تعالى، الصادق الخالد، الشيخ جلال الدين السيوطي، أعاد الله تعالى علينا وعلى المسلمين من بركاته. آمين. آمين. آمين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وصحبه وسلم."
At the head of title on folio 1a, an endowment statement: "Hādhā al-kitāb waqf lillāh taʻālá."
في رأس العنوان على وجه الورقة 1: "هذا الكتاب وقف لله تعالى."
On folio 1b: Three ownership statements: "Mulk al-Sayyid Yūsuf al-Ḥasanī al-Mālikī;" an erased ownership statement dated 5 Muḥarram, 1183 Hijrī (Thursday, 11 May, 1769); another erased ownership statement.
على الورقة 1ب: ثلاثة قيود تملك، كما يلي: "ملك السيد يوسف الحسني المالكي؛" قيد تملك ممحو، بتاريخ 5 محرم، 1183 (الخميس، 11 أيار/مايو، 1769)؛ قيد تملك آخر ممحو.
Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb wa-al-ḥamdu li-Rabbinā al-Wahhāb. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad. Wa-kāna al-farāgh ʻan kitābat hādhā al-juzʼ al-mubārak yawm al-Khamīs al-mubārak, fī 22 shahr Jumādá al-Awwal, wa-dhālika fī sanat 1095, ʻalá yad kātibihi, afqar al-ʻibād ilá al-Mawlá al-Ḥaqq, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh."
الخاتمة: "تم الكتاب والحمد لربنا الوهّاب. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد. وكان الفراغ عن كتابة هذا الجزء المبارك يوم الخميس المبارك، في 22 شهر جمادى الأول، وذلك في سنة 1095، على يد كاتبه، أفقر العباد إلى المولى الحق، عبد الحق، غفر الله له ولوالديه."
Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed. Praise be to our Abundant Giving Lord. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad. The copy of this blessed volume was completed on blessed Thursday, 22 Jumādá al-Awwal, 1095 [27 April, 1684] by ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, the poorest of the worshipers of our True Lord, may God forgive him and his parents."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb "Good tidings for the depressed by meeting the beloved", a treatise on death and the dead according to Islamic doctrines and eschatology by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Sutūṭī (1445-1505), one of the most prolific Muslim scholars of the late Mamelukes era (1250-1517), summarized by the author from his longer book on "al-Barzakh" (time between death and resurrection according to Islamic tradition), titled: "Sharḥ al-ṣudūr bi-sharḥ ḥāl al-mawtá wa-al-qubūr" (Delight of the hearts by explaining the status of the dead and the tombs). Copied on Thursday 22 (probably 12) Jumādá al-Awwal, 1095 (27 April, 1684), by ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq. Place of copying not mentioned.
Variant and related titles
Kitāb Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb
كتاب بشرى الكئيب بلقاء الحبيب
Sharḥ al-ṣudūr bi-sharḥ ḥāl al-mawtá wa-al-qubūr.
شرح الصدور بشرح حال الموتى والقبور.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2017
References
Suyūṭī, Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Suyūṭī, Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 17th century.
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