Author
Ibn Al-Mawaini, Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Khaira
Author Original
ابن المواعيني، محمد بن إبراهيم بن خيرة
Type
belge
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
232
Library
King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences
Record ID
affichage_numerics3621
Notes
The beginning of the manuscript: O Lord, enable me to be thankful for Your blessings that You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do good deeds that You will be pleased with... Muhammad ibn Ibrahim said, “This is a book that we abhor with the combination of thought like the retouching of a picker of garden flowers... So I called it the basil of hearts and the prime of youth in the ranks of morals.”
End of the manuscript: One day he preached and said, “I saw three defects... disobeying him in eternal time that never ends. Are you like someone whose eyes have been blinded by the world, whose ears have been blocked by desires, and who has chosen the mortal over the lasting, and you do not remember that you have become new to Islam... And I swear to God that I will take the guardian for the guardian, the resident for the transgressor, and the obedient for the disobedient.”
Notes: This manuscript is a film miniature - a microfilm - located in two volumes, and a paper photocopy that was reproduced from a single original. They are completely similar, except for the cut that we found in the first book in the film miniature, which ends at page 132, while the paper photocopy of the same volume ends at page 138, meaning that the truncated part is estimated at 6 pages. We did not find anything useful in identifying the original manuscript. This book is about the principles of the creation of literature and writing. The author mentions in the introduction to the book the method of writing it, saying: [And I divided it into seven levels of book heads that are divided into observers and then into folds from the horizons of which piercing stars rise. The rank is a place of the book, the watch is like a door, and the fold is in the position of a chapter, and perhaps the attention may have increased the benefit.] On the basis of that, he divided his book into seven levels: [The first rank is the rank of gradual growth and piety to the heights of sublimity and exaltation, and the second The third rank is the gloss of Arabic law and the rejection of linguistic expressions, the third is the rank of insinuating metaphors and speech that is likely to be exposed, the fourth is the rank of eloquence and eloquence and comprehensiveness in the requirements for establishing industry, the fifth is the rank of the Qarid system and the titles of the balance of presentations, the sixth is the rank of conciseness of the lineage tree and its end from the children of Adam and Noah to the leprosy of the Arabs, and the seventh is the rank of choosing poetry and news and the related hadiths. The first four volumes are included in the first volume - 138 pages - while the remaining volumes are included in the second volume - 232 pages - which suffers from a severe disorder in the arrangement of its pages, gaps in some of its parts, and cuts in its beginning and end. Haji Khalifa previously described this book as “a good book on literature in two large volumes,” as mentioned by the Egyptian scholar Muhammad Morsi al-Khouli, “and the book is divided into two parts, numbering one hundred and seventy-seven pages.” The described copy is located in the Fatih Library in Istanbul and was in the possession of Salah al-Safadi, and it bears his acknowledgment of the book and bears the number 3909. Other copies: There are two copies in the Hasani treasury, the first of which bears the number 2647, its number of leaves is 203 and the number of lines is 31. It is the oldest of the two, as it appears that it was copied at the end of the Nasrid dynasty in Andalusia or during the era of the Saadian state in Morocco. The second is numbered 1406, its number of leaves is 143 and the number of lines is 37. It was copied on 22 Rajab in the year 1133 for Prince Mawla Sharif bin Sultan Mawla Ismail Al-Alawi. By its writer, Abdullah bin Muhammad Al-Ghamar Al-Lamati
Font type: Moroccan Andalusian
