Ijāzat Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār li-Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān : manuscript, [ca. 1780-1800]

An ijāzah issued by Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār to his student Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān. The student's name is mentioned on fol. 1v; the master's name on fol. 6r. In the ijāzah al-ʻAṭṭār traces his authority back to al-Qasṭallānī's al-Mawāhib al-ladunnīyah, then to al-Shāfiʻī, and then gives his isnād of a musalsal ḥadīth.

Title supplied by cataloger. Varying title from fol. 1r, written in a later hand.

الحمد لله الذي وفق من شاء من عباده للتفقه في الدين واختار من ارتضاه من احبابه لاقتداء آثار الصالحين ... :Incipit

Written in a naskh hand in black ink, 14-17 lines per page, with catchwords on the verso of each leaf except for fol. 4.

The ms is stained throughout.

Paper size: 17 x 11.5 cm (text size varies on each page). Two bifolia sewn together and another one is glued to them. A thicker paper (?) is used as cover.

According to the colophon, this is an autograph copy in the hand of Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd al-ʻAṭṭār (fol. 6r). No date or place is noted but most probably it is written between 1780-1804 in Damascus.

MS Arab 405. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

In Arabic.