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Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ : manuscript / edited by ʻAlī Sibṭ al-Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ
Creator
ابن الفارض، عمر بن علي، 1181 أو 1182-1235.
Uniform Title
Dīwān
ديوان
Title
Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ : manuscript / edited by ʻAlī Sibṭ al-Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ.
ديوان ابن الفارض : مخطوطة / تحرير علي سبط الشيخ شرف الدين عمر بن الفارض.
Production
Place not identified, 1854.
Physical Description
1 volume (77 leaves) ; 23 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alldhī khaṣṣa ḥabībah al-athná [al-asná] bi-maqām qāb qawsayn aw adná, wa-qarana ismahu al-sharīf bi-aʻẓam asmāʼihi al-ḥusná ... qāla al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-dhanbihi al-mughtarif min nahr ʻaṭā rabbihi ʻAlī Sibṭ al-Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ, al-rājī karama rabbihi al-fāyiḍ ... naẓartu fī nusakh min dīwān Shaykhinā, qaddasa Allāh sirrahu wa-sharaḥ ṣadrahu bi-al-naẓar ilayhi wa-barrahu, fa-raʼaytu al-nussākh jahilū baʻḍ kalāmihi wa-mā ʻarafūhu, wa-ishtabaha ʻalayhim shayʼ min jināsihi fa-ṣaḥḥafūhu wa-akhrajūhu bi-dhālika ʻan aṣlih ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي خص حبيبه الاثنى [الأسنى] بمقام قاب قوسين أو أدنى، وقرن اسمه الشريف بأعظم أسمائه الحسنى ... قال الفقير المعترف بذنبه المغترف من نهر عطا ربه علي سبط الشيخ شرف الدين عمر بن الفارض، الراجي كرم ربه الفايض ... نظرت في نسخ من ديوان شيخنا، قدس الله سره وشرح صدره بالنظر اليه وبره، فرأيت النساخ جهلوا بعض كلامه وما عرفوه، واشتبه عليهم شيء من جناسه فصحفوه وأخرجوه بذلك عن أصله ..."
Secundo folio: masālikahu muʻtamidan fī dhālik.
بداية الورقة الثانية: مسالكه معتمدًا في ذلك.
16 x 23 cm; written surface: 12 x 19 cm; 17 lines per page.
Binding: In marbled cardboard binding with flap.
In fair naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; the verses are fully vocalized; catchwords.
On folio 1a: "Hādhā Dīwān al-Ustādh al-ʻārif bi-rabbihi al-walī al-zāhid, Mawlānā wa-ʻazīzinā Sayyid ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ, nafaʻanā Allāh bi-hi. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam."
على وجه الورقة 1: "هذا ديوان الأستاذ العارف بربه الولي الزاهد، مولانا وعزيزنا سيد عمر بن الفارض، نفعنا الله به. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم."
On folio 77b: Eight verses of poetry (could not be identified) with the date 995 (1586/1587).
Colophon: "Tamma al-Dīwān bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnih wa-ḥusn tawfīqih. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābatihi 13 Shawwāl, sanat 1270."
الخاتمة: "تم الديوان بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه. وكان الفراغ من كتابته 13 شوال، سنة 1270."
Translation of the colophon: "The Dīwān [Collected poems] was completed by the praise of God, His help and His abundant benevolence. Copied on 13 Shawwāl, 1270 [9 July, 1854]."
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
The collected poems (Dīwān) of Ibn al-Fāriḍ (ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī, 1181 or 1182-1235), a prominent, but controversial, Ṣufī poet and ascetic, born and died in Cairo (Egypt), whose father came from Ḥamāh (Syria), edited with an introduction, by ʻAlī, a grandson of Ibn al-Fāriḍ from his daughter, hence, his epithet "Sibṭ Ibn al-Fāriḍ" (active 1334). Copied on 13 Shawwāl, 1270 Hijrī (9 July, 1854). Name of the copyist and place of copying not mentioned.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2018
References
ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Fāriḍ, Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Fāriḍ, Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 19th century.
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