Murādī: Silk II, S. 57-58; Ṭabbāḫ: Iʿlām an-nubalā' VI, S. 519-520; Abū l-Wafā‘ al-῾Urḍī:
Ma῾ādin aḏ-ḏahab fī l-aʿyān al-mušarrafa bi-him Ḥalab. Ed. Muḥammad Altūnǧī, o.O.
1987.
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Owner of Berlin Ms.or.oct. 1448; Berlin Wetzstein II 1768 (1150); Cambridge Qq 70;
Gotha orient. A 114 (1151), 1841 (1150), 2701 (1150), 2803 (1151); Princeton Garrett
H75 (1150). Reader of Gotha orient. T 222. The editor of al-῾Urḍī: Ma῾ādin al-dhahab, cites in pp. 26-27 Ṭabbākh: I῾lām an-nubalā’
on a manuscript of the work Abū l-Wafā’ al-῾Urḍī: Fatḥ al-māniḥ al-badī῾: واطلعت عليها ... وعليها خط حسين الوفائي الحلبي المتوفى سنة 1156 Known as a poet and Sufi. He calls himself in many notes "ḫādim fuqarā takīyat Abī
Bakr al-Wafā'ī bi-Ḥalab". According to the biographical sources he was shaykh of the
Wafā'iyya-order in that same Sufi-convent. Information on the Princeton manuscript provided by Kristina Richardson.
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