Author
ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam ibn ‘Abd al-Rasūl al-Sahāranfūrī
Publication Date
10 Muḥarram 1105 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
225 x 137mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 1582
Record ID
vdc_100106886129.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
10 Muḥarram 1105 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
A commentary by ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam ibn ‘Abd al-Rasūl al-Sahāranfūrī (Ismat Allah ibn Azm ibn Abd al-Rasul al-Saharanfūrī, or Sahāranpūrī [Saharanپوری], d. ca 1690, see f. 127r, line 4) on the popular
Summa of Arithmetic
(Summary of Account) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (Bahā al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili; d. 1621).
The text of the commentary was completed on 19 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1086/5 March 1676 (f. 127r, lines 2-3) and the present copy was finished on 10 Muḥarram 1105/11 September 1693 (the scribe gives 1505 in error) in the town of Jaljalah, a suburb of Bijapur in the Deccan, during the reign of ʿAlamgīr (Aurangzeb, reg. 1658-1707). It was copied by the scribe ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad ʿĀshiq (Abdul Baqi ibn al-Qadi Muhammad Ashiq), an inhabitant of the citadel of Fīrūzpūr (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 127r, lines 9-14).
Folios 2-4 are replacements, in a different hand and f. 17 is an insert. Content headings up to the Fifth Chapter are written out on f. 127v with the remainder now lost.
Begins (f. 2v, lines 1-3):
Glory be to Him who has the knowledge of arithmetic for His perfect attributes and names and who has the knowledge of numbers to collect His signs and divide His blessings.
And blessings and peace be upon the one whose appearance dispersed the people of transgression and tyranny, and whose arrival brought justice to the people of immorality.
And disbelief and upon his family, whose effort weakens the true religion and destroys its enemies...
Ends: (f. 126v, line 16-127r, line 1):
...This is as the Sheikh recommended in Al-Isharat
By being stingy about teaching wisdom to those who are not skilled in signs, if the addressee is not skilled in this
The book...
Authorial
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 127r, lines 1-5):
... Let us be silent about explaining the account. The dryness of the tongue’s pen has agreed to depict this
The edifice and the empty tongue of the pen reported the report of this explanation on the nineteenth of the month of Dhul-Hijjah
In the year one thousand and eighty-six of the Hijra, Dhul-Hijjah, I am a weak servant who disobeys
Servants of God, the Forgiving, Ismatullah Ibn Azam Ibn Abdul Rasoul lives in Saharanfur, from Madafat
Delhi Shahjahanabad...
Scribal
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 127r, lines 9-14).
Enlightenment of the numbers of Anwar’s summary of the account, explaining the summary of the account in arithmetic, was obtained in the tenth
From the sacred month of Muharram in the year five hundred and five hundred [!] and one thousand Hijri, with respect in the village of Jaljalah
One of the places of Bijapur, the Deccan country, is the days when the high, sultanic, international banners were raised
In it, I despise God’s servants and disobey God’s creatures, begging for the mercy of God the Creator, mastering the sentences.
Al-Wathiq Abd al-Baqi bin al-Qadi Muhammad Ashiq is one of the most despicable inhabitants of the Kasbah of Fayrouzfour...
...of the veiled women of Delhi, Shahjahanabad...
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Loth, Otto,
A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
(London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 759, p. 221
Edinme Kaynağı
From the library of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of Bengal (1773-85), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1809
Köken
East India Company Library: its seal (ff. 2r and 127v)
Purchase notes dated 1192 and 1197 (f. 2r)
Muḥammad [...] ([…] محمد ): his seal dated 1186/1772-73 (ff. 2r and 95r)
Ṣabghat Allāh Khān (صبغة الله خان): his seal (f. 2r)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
; Sahāranpūrī, ʻIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʻẓam ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl,
Anwār khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
[margins], (Lakhnaw [?]: Maṭbaʿah Muḥammadīyah, 1846)
Sahāranpūrī, c
Anwār Khulāṣah al-ḥisāb: Sharḥ Khulāṣah al-ḥisāb: A Commentary (Incorporating the Text) on Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī's Manual of Arithmetic
(Delhi: Hindū Press, 1876)
Sahāranpūrī, ʻIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʻẓam ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl,
Anwaro Kholasut-ool Hisab or, The Book of Arithmetic, by Maulana Ismut-oollah of Saharunpore
, ed. by Qazee ool Qoozat Sayyidhamid-oolah [sic], Mooftee Abbas Alee, Mooftee Gorlam Soobhan and Hukeem Abd-ool Mujeed (Calcutta: s.n., 1929)
Editions of text commented upon:
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
(Tabrīz?: Maṭba‘ Muḥammad Zuyūr, 1262)
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb: al-khulāṣat fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb wa al-jabr wa al-muqābilah; nuskhah-i taṣḥīh shudah hamrāh bā matn-i chāp-i sangī
(Qum: Majma‘-i Z̲akhā’ir-i Islāmī, 2011)
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb, ma‘a taḥshīyah jadīdah kāfīyah li-ḥall al-ṣi‘āb wa-ḍamīmah lā’iqah bi-taḥṣīl al-nāzil wa-min al-judhūr wa-al-ki‘āb
(Diyūband: Kutubʹkhānah-i Raḥīmīyah, 1974)
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,
Rīyāḍīyāt (Mathematical Works)
, ed. by G. Shawky (Aleppo: Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, 1976) pp. 31-163
Edition and German translation of text commented upon:
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,
Essenz der rechenkunst von Mohammed Beha-eddin ben Alhossain aus Amul, arabisch und deutsch
, ed. and trans. by G. H. F. Nesselmann (Berlin, 1843)
Studies:
Hashemipour, Behnaz, '‘Āmilī: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 42-43
