al-Fawā'id al-jalīlah al-bahīyah ʻalá al-Shamāʼil al-Muḥammadīyah,
[early 19th century?].

الفوائد الجليلة البهية على الشمائل المحمدية, [اوائل القرن 19م؟].

Description

Main Author

Jassūs, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, 1678-1768.

Related Names

Qārī al-Harawī, ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad, -1605 or 1606.

Language(s)

Arabic

Published

[1800-1840?].

Subjects

Muḥammad, > Muḥammad, / Prophet, > Muḥammad, / Prophet, / -632 > Muḥammad, / Prophet, / -632 / Biography > Muḥammad, / Prophet, / -632 / Biography / Early works to 1800.
Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, > Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, / -892. > Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, / -892. / Shamāʼil.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Hadith > Hadith / Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Hadith / Criticism, interpretation, etc. / Early works to 1800.
Hadith > Hadith / Commentaries > Hadith / Commentaries / Early works to 1800 > Hadith / Commentaries / Early works to 1800 / Commentaries.

Summary

Fine Maghribī of the commentary by Muḥammad ibn Qāsim Jassūs (d.1768), modeled on the basis of the commentary by ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān al-Qārī al-Harawī (d.1605 or 6), upon al-Tirmidhī's (d.892) Shamā'il, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet's characteristics.

Note

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 490
Origin: As appears in authorial colophon on p.377, transcription of the fair copy (tabyīḍ) completed 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1139 [ca. 24 July 1727]. Collation (muqābalah) was first completed 1 Rajab 1141 [ca. 31 January 1729], followed by a second examination/correction (murājaʻah) completed at the beginning of Jumādá II [?] 1142 [December 1729] and finally a third 3 Rabīʻ II 1162 [ca. 23 March 1749]. Date of transcription for this copy not specified, though paper, etc. suggest early 19th century.
Accompanying materials: Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.1-2).
Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, "IL 20" [?] (likely supplied by Yahuda).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in red and yellow) with dark red-brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings (doublures) in marbled paper (mainly in teal and red) ; sewn in cream thread, two stations, also stab sewn in heavy cream thread ; worked chevron endbands in cream and lime-green over red primaries with red leather core, damaged ; overall in somewhat poor condition with cover serving as a wrapper for textblock (too large, not original, likely here reused), much abrasion and staining, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.
Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 and 24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks including lion rampant in coat of arms / scrollwork flanked by beasts with "F P below" (see p.368, 374, etc.) and name "PICARDO" (see p.391 and compare paper of C46a. MS. Shelley adds. c.5, fols. 113, 116-118 dated 1823 in Barker-Benfield, Shelleyan writing materials in the Bodleian Library, pp.86-87) ; transluscent, sturdy and quite well burnished to glossy.
Decoration: Some section headings, keywords and passages of text being commented upon rubricated ; others in yellow-orange ; textual dividers in the form red discs and inverted commas ; overlining in red.
Script: Maghribī script ; elegant hand with slight effect of tilt to the right, sweeping descenders, etc.
Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame ruled (impression of ruling board visible).
Collation: i, 19 V (190), i ; exclusively quinions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of mark looking like numeral sittah ۶ in upper outer margin of right-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and front flyleaf, skips two pages each between pp.223-224 and pp.233-234).
Colophon: "Authorial," reads: "قال مقيده عبد الله تعالى وافقر عبيده الى رحمته محمد بن قاسم بن بمحمد بن قاسم بن احمد جسوس كان الله تعالى له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين دنيا واخرى هذا اخر ما تيسر جمعه من الفوائد الجليلة البهية على الشمائل المحمدية وافق الفراغ من تبييض ذلك خامس الحجة الحرام ... عام تسعة وثلاثين ومائة والف ونسأل الله تعالى ان ينفعنا وسائر المسلمين به وان يجعله خالصا لوجه الكريم والحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصفطى كتب المؤلف الحمد لله بلغنا مقابلته اول رجب الفرد الحرام من سنة احدى واربعين ومائة والف تقبل الله ذلك بمنه ثم بلغنا مراجعته مرة ثانية اوائل الشهر قبله من سنة اثنين واربعين ومائة جعل الله ذلك من اعمال المتقبلة بمنه وامين ثم مرة ثالثة ثالث ربيع الثاني من عام اثنين وستين ومائة والف تقبل الله سبحانه ذلك بجاه هذا النبي الكريم عليه افضل الصلوات وازكى التسليم والحمد لله رب العالمين اللهم اغفر لنا ولوالدينا ولجميع المسلمين امين ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم ... والحمد لله رب العالمين"
Explicit: "قوله صلى الله عليه وسلم من صافح عالما صادقا فكانما صافح نبينا مرسلا اماتنا الله تعالى على محبتهم وحشرنا في زمرتهم وجعلنا والمتمسكين بعزيمهم وسنتهم امين يا رب العالمين"
Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام العلامة الهمام سيد محمد بن قاسم جسوس رحمه الله تعالى ورضي عنه واكرمه بمنه الحمد لله الذي اودع ابرع شمائل زين الخلائق ... فلما كان كتاب الشمائل من اجل ما الف في محاسن قطب الوسائل ومنبع الفضائل وكان الانشغال به خدمة لشفيع الخلائق ... وقد اعتمرنا في مواضع كثيرة وهذا الشرح المبارك على شرح الشيخ الامام البحر الهمام سيد علي بن سلطان الحنفي رحمه الله تعالى المسمى بجمع الوسائل في شرح الشمائل ..."
Title from authorial colophon on p.377.
Ms. codex.
Marginal glosses (often marked by ط) and occasional marginal corrections ; prayers and excerpts on front flyleaf and 'title page' (p.3).

Physical Description

190 leaves : paper ; 198 x 148 (146 x 94) mm. bound to 207 x 155 mm.

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