The manuscript comprises 242 leaves, with 25 lines per page. It is written in a clear naskh hand, and the copyist paid careful attention to vocalization and ihmāl marks. It was collated against its exemplar. Overall, it is a good manuscript, and it appears that both it and the Baghdad Religious Endowments manuscript (‘ayn) derive from a common exemplar.
- The Manisa manuscript [279] (s)
Its title page reads: “[The fir]st of the second part of al-Hady al-Nabawī (The Prophetic Guidance), by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, may Allah Most High have mercy on him.” Beneath the author’s name, a reader wrote: “This is incorrect, because he quotes Ibn al-Jawzī in the book. Rather, it is by a hadith scholar of the Hanbalī school whose name I do not know.” Perhaps he imagined that “Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah” was “Ibn al-Jawzī” and therefore denied that the book was his!
This manuscript contains the second of the book’s three parts. It begins with “Chapter on the Account of al-Hudaybiyyah” (3/ 338) and ends at the conclusion of the chapter on marriage to a woman who has committed fornication (5/ 161). It was copied in 772 AH, as the copyist recorded at its end:
“Here ends the second volume of al-Hady. It was completed on 17 Safar 772 AH by the most destitute of Allah’s servants and the most in need of His pardon and forgiveness, who hopes that Allah will grant him a good outcome, ultimately and in every circumstance: Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn ‘Abd al-Wāhid ibn ‘Abd al-Hamīd ibn Hilāl. May Allah pardon them through His grace and generosity.”
The manuscript comprises 259 leaves and is written in a beautiful hand. It was collated against its exemplar, as noted in several places and as the marginal corrections and additions also indicate. Three pages are written in a hand other than the copyist’s, and the manuscript begins in the copyist’s hand