Author
Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Faraḍī al-Baṣrī
Publication Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 5932, ff 107v-110v
Record ID
vdc_100030467188.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Fragment of treatise on the calculation of inheritance shares (Ilm al-Farid) by Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Faraḍī al-Baṣrī (Abu al-Hussein Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Fardhi al-Basri; d. 1011; see ff. 107v, line 2, transcribed below), known as Ibn al-Labbān (Ibn al-Labban; see ff. 107v, note in right-hand margin).
Contents:
Chapter on shares (Chapter on Assumptions; ff. 107v-108v);
Chapter on disparity (ff. 108v-110r);
Chapter on the grandfather and grandmothers (Chapter on the grandfather and grandmothers; f. 110r-110v);
Chapter on clientage (Chapter on loyalty; f. 110v, defective at end).
Beginnings (f. 107v, lines 2-4):
Sheikh Abu Al-Hussein Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Fardhi Al-Basri said
The saying of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, called me to learn the religious duties, for they are part of your religion
It is half the knowledge and the first thing that will be taken away from my nation and forgotten...
Ends (f. 110v, lines 16-18 [the final line is only semi-legible due to soiling and damage to the lower margin]):
Whoever emancipates a slave if he dies leaving behind a manager, he has his allegiance and inherits from him if he leaves no descendants or descendants
If he has a kin, then he has more right than the master, according to Ibn Masoud’s statement
[...] He has not strayed from the obligation of those with arrows and is more deserving...
Erişim Koşulları
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Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 447, pp. 221