A list of the ten companions of Prophet Muḥammad, stating after each that they encompassed both the hidden and the manifest knowledge (a Sufi-derived concept). The writer states that "we heard it from our sheikh al-Ḥajj Gasama". This is presumably the same figure referred to at other points of th...
A letter from Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré in Touba to his son
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A letter from Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré in Touba to his son in Medina Suwaré Kunda, that he was to give to one Fūdī ʿUmar Sāma requesting the return of his book, Nafḥ al-Ṭayyib, a praise work. He lent it to the latter so that he could copy it, but he had not returned the book after repeated letters...
Iʿlam anna wajadnā min anwāʿ al-kufr al-mujammiʿ ʿalayhā faḍlan ʿan al-mukhtalif fīhi fī al-ṭalabah اعلم أن وجدنا من أنواع الكفرالمجمع عليها فضلا عن المختلف فيه في الطلبة
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Unidentified work by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar on different forms of unbelief
ينبغي للمؤمن بل يجب عليه أن يجاهد نفسه yanbaghī lil-muʾmin bal yajib ʿalayhu an yujāhid nafsahu
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A work by Muḥammad Ibn Abī Maḥalli on the Sufi concept of "jihad of the self", citing Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jazāʾirī, Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490) who was an Imām of Tilimsān (d.1486) and others. The colophon states that Ibrāhīm Suwaré, son of Fāṭima Dramé, is the owner
