A treaty on Arabic language by the Egyptian Ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī (1309-1360), a noted Arabic grammarian. No biographical details of copyist in colophon.
Final pages of an unidentified work concerning instructions for ritual ablutions followed, by a hadith concerning the angel of death and the archangels.
A section of the Risāla of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996), a writer of instructional religious works. This chapter deals with the division of an estate after death. The text is written in beautiful Central Sudanic/Hausa hand. The colophon praises an unnamed sheikh for his knowledge and patie...
This book starts with "the thirty matters for which ignorance is no excuse according to the Maliki school". It contains versified fiqh rulings from the Maliki school followed by a few sayings of Anas Ibn Mālik added after the colophon.
A series of commentaries upon various single lines of poetry (highlighted in red) by a "Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh Ibn ʿAlī" who also made this copy. Unusual hooked design to introduce and end the work with colophon.
Unidentified poem with extensive notation often dwarfing the main body of the text. On f. 288 there is a small piece of paper attached to main page with thread for the purpose of extending a note on the text.
A work collating the sayings of scholars of the Shāfiʿī school of the 11th-12th century CE such as Abū al-Maʿālī and Abū Ḥāmīd al-Ghazālī. The work is reported to have been written by al-Muṣṭafā Ibn al-Faqīh Muḥammad Ghāsī. The work begins with instructions for the quick answering of prayers with...
A short prayer asking for the intercession of God against anyone doing the creator harm. "Whoever wishes to do me harm, may God do him harm before he harms me."
Seems to be a story about travelling in a foreign country, an account of an attack or perhaps a talisman to prevent this. Mention of King Umaru Ibn Adama. Badly damaged.