The work is a versified version of a popular Hanafi fiqh manual by Abū Ṭāhir Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī , the al-Manāhij al-Sirājiyya () , dealing with the law of inheritance. Judging by the frequent
interlinear commentaries on vocabulary and grammar in the manuscript of Muhsin’s
Jāmi‘ al-Durar , this latter was also used
to teach Arabic. It was composed in 736 according the final verse. عام لَوُذٍ قبيل شهر رجب * تم ابياته لكم
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According to Muhsin-i
Kayseri’s introduction, he wrote the work at the request of friends who
asked him for an explanation of his earlier Jāmi‘
al-Durar (جامع الدرر
شرح)which he wrote in his youth. As well as a linguistic
commentary, the work cites the views of Hanafi scholars (and occasionally Shafii
ones) on questions of fiqh. Show more
Probable place of composition: Kayseri
(Turkey) between 736-761.
Probable place of composition: Kayseri
(Turkey) under the patronage of Suleyman Beg b. al-amir al-a’zam,
al-wazir al-akram… Falak al-Dawla wa’l-Din Ṭāshḥūn Beg سليمان بك بن الامير الاعظم
الوزير الاكرم ...فلك الدين طاشحون بك
A commentary on the poems under this title by Great Seljuk poet Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abīwardī, -1113, comprising the second
section of his Dīwān. Completed in Jumada II 759 according to colophon of
extant manuscript. Probable place of composition: Kayseri (Turkey). According to the introduction, the
work was composed because knowledge of poetry is the surest way to mastering Arabic,
and the Najdiyyāt was chosen both because of
its popularity and because it was easy to memorise. Show more
Extract from introduction, fol. Ib of Reisulkuttab 856: فان دقائق
العربية وحقائق الفنون العربية لا يمكن تليين عريكتها ولا يُمكَّن من الاتكاء على
اريكتها الا بممارسة قوانين الادب ومباحثة دواوين العرب فمن لم يضرب في طلبها اكباد
الابل فهو عن معرفة خواص التركيب بمنزل ومن لم يغز بتحصيل هذا الامل هو منزله عالم
بلا عمل ثم ان اكثرها تداولا واقربها تناولا وايسرها حفظا والطفها معنى ولفظا هو كتاب
النجديات الدي سار في الاقطار سير القبول و حل من القلوب محل القبول وتصبو اليه
الطباع الموزونة و تحن الى استنباط جواهره المخزونة
There are Arabic verses by al-farazdaq and the others on folio 1r
