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who mentions Vols. 5, 9, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 33. He gives the date of
death of the author about 557/1161. The Mu$annaf is of obvious
importance in Iba<JI legal literature and also contains some biographical
information, c.g. SalimI quotes it, cf. ‘Abd Allah b. tfumayd al-Saliml,
Tufrfat aI-a‘ySn bi-sirat ‘UmSn, Kuwait, 1974 (5th edit.), 1, 109. Cf. also
Salim b. Hamad al-Harithl, al-'Uqud al-fiddiyyah fi u$ul al-iba<jiyyah,
completed in 1394 (1974), published by Dar al-Yaq?at al-‘Arabiyyah ‘in
Syria and Lebanon’, no date, 140, 277 and tfarithfs edition of ‘Abd Allah
b. tfumayd al-Saliml, al-Jqd al-thamin, Cairo, 1393H, 21, who lists him as
a scholar of the 6th/12th century.
V.28. $alih b. Muhammad al-NizwI, IJada’iq al-Tman, Vol. 13, containing
the following subjects: $adaqah, talaq, ‘iddat al-nisa\ frayd, etc., date
of copying 1089 (1678). [23]
V.29. ‘Abd Allah b. ftumayd al-Saliml, Jawbar al-nifam IT ‘ilmay al-adyan
wa ’I-afrkam, complete, date of copying 1343 (1924). [912], The
author, who died in 1332 (1913), wrote the famous history, the
Tufrfat, see comments after V.27 above and VI, History below.
Jawbar a1-nizam, an uijuzah, has been published in Cairo, 1974,
edited by Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Affayyish3 al-Jaza’iri al-Mlzabl. Cf. also
Brockelmann, GAL, SII, 823.
V.30. Ibid. Complete? copied 1370 (1950). [1701]
V.31. Ibid, Vol. 1, containing the following subjects: ruku\ sujud, $alah,
satrah, ghasl al-mayyit, zakab, frajj, nudhur, i‘tikaf, ayman, nafrr,
‘umrah, qabr, jama’iz etc. copied 1338 (1919). [1185]
V.32. Ibid, Vol. 1, copied 1338 (1919). [1185]
V.33. Ibid, Vol. 2, containing afrkam, §unuf al-frayawan, itfiyad etc. [1627]
V.34. Ibid, Vol. 3, containing the following subjects: amwal, sawaqT, wa$y,
‘at&y&, ijZrah, mlrath, iman, al-amr bi ’l-ma'ruf wa ’l-nahy *an
al-munkar, frudud, da‘awT, al-qada’ fi ’1-dima’, niyyab, satr al-(awrah,
rizq, fraqq al-rafrim, na$ifrah etc. copied 1339 (1920). [1296]
V.35. Ibid. Complete? copied 1343 (1924). [912]
V.36. Ibid. Complete? copied 1339 (1920). [1696]
V.37. Ibid. Complete? [1591]
V.38. Ibid. Complete? copied 1335 (1916) [1627]
By far the most common composition in this category is the Bayan
al-shar‘ by Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Kindl in 72 volumes. By a stroke of
good fortune a very modem copy (1394/1974) in manuscript of Qatfdah fi
ma'rifat ajza’ Bay£n al-shar‘ by Najdah b. ‘Abd al-Sallam came to hand.
Spot checks revealed that the poem gives an accurate list of contents for
the 72 volumes of the BayUn. Before presenting the MSS of the BaySn,
therefore, this list of contents is produced as follows:
1. (alab al-‘ihn 7. taharah
2. tawfrid 8. wudu’
3. wilZyah 9. ghasljanabah
4. u$Ql 10. $alawat
5. zuhd 11. frudud al-$alsh
6. niyySt 12. $alaw&t