A charm for memory and understanding: "whoever writes it out and imbibes it will remember everything they hear". Underneath is a talismanic device resembling a diagram or map, perhaps a representation of the charm.
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 list of judicial rulings on inheritance by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Raḥabī (1103- 1181), copied with hemstitches like a poem but in prose. The colophon mentions the lineage of the copyist.
Final pages of an unidentified work concerning instructions for ritual ablutions followed, by a hadith concerning the angel of death and the archangels.
The final verses of a poem by Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥāj al-ʿAbdarī al-Fassī, an Egyptian/Moroccan Maliki fiqh scholar and theologian famous for his "Madkhal".
Instructions on how many times to recite a given passage from the Qur'an depending on whether your need is great, average, small or "as insignificant as food and drink". ff 324v-325r contain instructions on how to fill in a number square drawn on an allo board in order to have your need fulfilled...
The wird (daily practice) of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077–1166 ) and the ten ways he will intercede to help the bearer of this wird (blessing the bearer, accompanying him at the moment of death, finding the right answer to questions posed etc.). Introduced by a prayer (f. 327r)
Collection of Arabic works of West African provenance
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fourteen separate works in Arabic from West Africa. Among them are four works on Maliki law, one on tawḥīd, two works on Arabic grammar, two poems, three works on hadith and one on Qādirī Sufism. The last work is the Rawḍ al-Jinān composed by the Wazīr of Sokoto, Gidado dan L...