Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb fī sharḥ alfāẓ al-Taqrīb
Contributors: Ibn al-Habrah, Saʻd ibn Surūd, active 1675, scribe; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1676
Language: ara
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Islamic law; Commentaries; Early works to 1800; Shafiites; Arabic Manuscripts; Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Shāfiʻī (Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn)
Other titles: Qawl al-mukhtār fī sharḥ Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār; Qarīb fī Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār
Description: A commentary on Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Shāfiʻī (also called al-Taqrīb) by Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī, a work on the application of Shāfiʻī jurisprudence.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Titles from introduction, given as alternatives since the source-text is known by two names as well (f. 2r).

Layout: 15 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red including overlining and sets of dots to mark text divisions.

Origin: Copied completed 9 Dhū al-Hijjah 1086 AH / February 1676 CE by Saʻd ibn Surūd al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Habrah (f. 126v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 367.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap; blind stamped central mandorla with four radial lines and double frame.

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