Biographical work in seven parts on personalities from early Islamic history. The
arrangement of these individuals is set up according to the following criteria: Part 1: Companions of the prophet and personalities living during the first century of the
Hijra Part 2: Personalities known by their personal name (ism) Part 3: Personalities known by their agnomen (kunyā) Part 4: Personalities known by their nickname, or title of honour (laqab) Part 5: Personalities known by their place of origin or residence (nisbah) Part 6: Personalities known by their patronymics (nasab) Part 7: Personalities known by (one of their) works
The Leipzig manuscript ends on f. 79b in the middle of part 6 of the text. f. 2a, and others: Biographical information on the author Biographical information on the authorʾs son al-Sayyid Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah
al-Ḥusaynī al-Dimashqī (d. 923/1517; Kaḥḥālah IX/271) On the doublure of the front cover, Wetzstein points already to the possibility that
the entries on the title page (f. 2a) could concern the author, his offspring and
the manuscript ff. 80a-141b: Among others, notes, text fragments and lists of mainly biographical content on the
prophetʾs companions and successors as well as scholars, written by different hands ff. 80a-81b, 121b-123b, 126b-127b, 128b-134b: List of personalities (companions of the prophet, successors and following generations,
scholars) and their year of death, written by the same hand as the main work (Leipzig
manuscript until f. 79b) ff. 86b-91a: al-Ṭabaqāt: classification of the companions of the prophet (al-ṣaḥāba), their successors
(al-tābiʿūn), the successorsʾ successors (tābiʿū al-tābiʿīn), the following two generations
as well as the scholars from the 3.-8./9.-14. centuries ff. 92a-92b: List of ḥadīth transmitters, their date of death, the number of hadiths transmitted
by them and a reference to the canonical collections in which these can be found f. 93a: Bāb dhikr wafayāt aʾyān al-ṣaḥābah: List of famous companions of the prophet; the
numbers written between the lines might refer to a work dealing with the companionsʾ
biographies. ff. 93b-95b: List of ḥadīth transmitters; the number written after the transmitterʾs name might
indicate the number of aḥādīth transmitted by this person ff. 96a-99b: Excerpt from the sixth part of the historical work written by Kāmil al-Shāfiʿī al-Ghazzī
(oder al-ʿIzzī). The excerpt contains short biographies of persons who died between
571/1175 and 639/1242. ff. 100a-107b: Excerpt from the third part of the historical work al-Īṣāl al-sālik ilā rijāl al-masālik
written by al-Zawzanī ff. 109a-109b: List of names with short information on the personʾs biography and date of death f. 109b: Biographical notes on Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Ibn Taymiyyah
(d. 728/1328; EI2 III/951-955; GAL II/100-105 S II/119-126; Kaḥḥālah I/261-262; Ziriklī
I/144), taken from Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī
(d. 749/1349; EI2 III/758-759; GAL II/141 S II/175-176; Kaḥḥālah II/204-205; Ziriklī
I/268) ff. 109b-111b: Hādhihī adilla yunāqaḍu bihā adillat Taqī al-Dīn (ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī) al-Subkī
(d. 756/1355; EI2 IX/744-745; GAL II/86-88 S II/102-104; Kaḥḥālah VII/127-128; Ziriklī
IX/302) ff. 114a-119a: Excerpt from Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Dhahabī
al-Shāfiʿīʿs (d. 748/1348; EI2 II/214-216; GAL II/46-48 S II/45-47; Kaḥḥālah VIII/289-291;
Ziriklī V/326) Tajrīd asmāʿ al-ṣaḥābah (al-Iṣāba fī Tajrīd asmāʿ al-ṣaḥābah), a dictionary
of companions of the prophet and their successors f. 120b: Certificate of audition granted to Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusain
ibn Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Ḥamza al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥanafī al-Dimashqī (d. 1085/1674; Kaḥḥālah
XI/163) for the transmission of al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ by Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl
al-Bukhārī (d. 256/870; EI2 I/1296-1297; GAL I/157-160 S I/260-265; GAS I/115-134;
Kaḥḥālah IX/52-53; Ziriklī VI/34), which he had studied (audited) under Shams al-Dīn
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Maydānī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 1033/1624; Kaḥḥālah XI/311; Ziriklī
VII/62) in the years 1031-1033 hijrī. f. 121a: Enumeration of the six out of seven parts included in the Leipzig manuscript until
f. 79b. ff. 135b-141a: poem f. 141b: Letters of the Arabic alphabet and their corresponding numeral values
f. 2b: الحمد لله اقصى الحمد ومنتهاه والصلاة والسلام على محمد نبيه ومصطفاه وبعد فهذه تذكرة
للاعلام بوفيات الاعلام مشرفة بذكر سيد الانام عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام مرتبة على سبعة
اقسام ملقبة بالمنتهى فى وفيات اولى النهى مرجو بها الثواب ممن اليه المرجع والمأب
End of the text
f. 79b: وابن اخيه زين الدين محمد بن عبد الله بن عمر مبيض الاشباه والنظاير وصنف فى الاصول كتابين
ولد بعد سنة تسعين وستماية ودفن بدمشق عند مسجد الذبان سنة ٧٣٨
Chapter headings / fascicle
ff. 2b-5b: القسم الاول فى ذكر من توفى من مشاهير الصحابة وغيرهم وذكر جملة من الامور المشهورة فى
الماية الاولى من الهجرة ff. 5b-11b: القسم الثانى فى ذكر من اشتهر باسم ff. 11b-16b: القسم الثالث فى ذكر من اشتهر بكنية ff. 16b-23a: القسم الرابع فى ذكر من اشتهر بلقب ff. 23a-57b: القسم الخامس في ذكر من اشتهر بنسب ff. 57b-79b: القسم السادس فى ذكر من اشتهر بابن فلان
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