Ahmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Tabarānī al-Kāmilī (d. 835 AH), in a collection numbered 2392. At its end is the statement: “Here ends the Book of Medicine from al-Hady (The Guidance) by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.” Its beginning is missing, so its original opening is unknown.
- The Baghdad Awqāf manuscript ('ayn)
This manuscript also appears to date from the ninth century AH, but its beginning and end are missing. It begins with the author’s statement in his introduction: “‘O Prophet, sufficient for you is Allah and whoever follows you of the believers’—that is, Allah alone is sufficient for you” (1/8). This indicates that, like the previously described Kattānī manuscript, it has lost its first leaf. It ends with the words of Allah, Exalted is He: “Whoever Allah guides is rightly guided, and whoever He leaves astray—you will never find for him a protecting guide” (3/375).
It comprises 216 leaves, with 25 lines per page, and was copied in a beautiful naskh hand in 790 AH. The manuscript was collated against its exemplar; someone subsequently collated it against another copy, designated by the letter (kh). This is expressly stated in a marginal note on fol. 6r: “Collation and correction against a reliable copy completed to this point.” A similar note appears on fol. 28v. An entire gathering (fols. 29–38) may have been lost from the manuscript and subsequently supplied by someone from a later copy.
It is held in the Public Awqāf Library in Baghdad under number 17989. This manuscript and the Kattānī manuscript (k) apparently derive from a common exemplar, as noted above.
- The Amcazade Library manuscript (j)
The first and second volumes of this manuscript have come down to us. Its shelfmark in the library