Anwār khulāṣat al-ḥisāb أنوار خلاصة الحساب Sahāranfūrī, ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam سهارنفوري، عصمة الله بن أعظم

Content

A commentary by ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam ibn ‘Abd al-Rasūl al-Sahāranfūrī (عصمة الله بن أعظم بن عبد الرسول السهارنفوري, or Sahāranpūrī [سهارنپوری], d. ca 1690, see f. 127r, line 4) on the popular Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621).

The text of the commentary was completed on 19 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1086/5 March 1676 (f. 127r, lines 2-3) and the present copy was finished on 10 Muḥarram 1105/11 September 1693 (the scribe gives 1505 in error) in the town of Jaljalah (جَلجَلة), a suburb of Bijapur in the Deccan, during the reign of ʿAlamgīr (Aurangzeb, reg. 1658-1707). It was copied by the scribe ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad ʿĀshiq (عبد الباقي بن القاضي محمد عاشق), an inhabitant of the citadel of Fīrūzpūr (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 127r, lines 9-14).

Folios 2-4 are replacements, in a different hand and f. 17 is an insert. Content headings up to the Fifth Chapter are written out on f. 127v with the remainder now lost.

Begins (f. 2v, lines 1-3):

سبحان من عنده علم الحساب لصفات كماله وأسمائه وله علم العدد لجمع آياته وقسمة نعمائه

وصلوة وسلاما على من كان بظهوره تفريق أهل البغى والطغيان وبقدومه تنصيف أهل الفسق

والكفران وعلى آله الذين يضرب من سعيهم تضعيف صحيح الدين وكسر أعدائه...

Ends: (f. 126v, line 16-127r, line 1):

... وهذا كما أوصى الشيخ في الإشارات

بالبخل عن تعليم الحكمة لمن ليس من أهل الإشارات فإن لم يكن المخاطب من أهل هذا

الكتاب ...

Authorial colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 127r, lines 1-5):

... فلنسكت عن شرح الحساب قد اتفق جفاف قلم اللسان عن تصوير هذا

الصرح وفراغ لسان القلم عن تقرير هذا الشرح في التاسع عشر من شهر ذي الحجة

من سنة ست وثمانين وألف من الهجرة ذي الحجة وأنا العبد الضعيف أعصى

عباد الله الغفور عصمة الله ابن أعظم بن عبد الرسول ساكن بسهارنفور من مضافات

دهلي شاهجهان آباد...

Scribal colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 127r, lines 9-14).

حصل تنوير أرقام أنوار خلاصة الحساب شرح خلاصة الحساب في علم الحساب في العاشر

من شهر محرم الحرام من سنة خمس وخمسمائة [!] وألف من الهجرية ذات الاحترام في القرية جَلجَلة

من مضافات بيجافور بلاد دكن أيام إقامة الرايات العاليات السلطانية العالمكيرية

فيها وأنا أحقر عباد الله وأعصى خلائق الله المتراجي إلى رحمة الله الخالق متمكنا بالجمل

الواثق عبد الباقي بن القاضي محمد عاشق من أحقر ساكني قصبة فيروزفور ...

... من منقبات دهلي شاهجهان آباد ...

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. iii+127+iv

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 225 x 137mm leaf [ 180 x 88mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Eastern Arabic foliation in red ink (black from ٦١); The start of each quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. (here called juzʾ) is noted in digits and written out in full (corresponding to the Eastern Arabic foliation) along with the year of copying in digits (١٠٨٦) in the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. margins every ten pages (quinions) from ff. 23r-123r.

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; the scribe is ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad ʿĀshiq (عبد الباقي بن القاضي محمد عاشق, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 127r, line 13)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated chapter headings and lemmata overlined in red

Decoration: None

Binding: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. half leather binding with boards and doublures marbled in pink, yellow, black, white and grey inks; gold-painted textblock edges; remains of green ribbon kept in box with volume

Condition: Generally good; some stains and smudges; corner of f. 34 damaged and repaired.

Marginalia: Marginal notes, corrections and diagrams throughout

Seals: ff. 2r, 95r and 127v

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IO Islamic 1582

History of this record

Date(s)

10 Muḥarram 1105 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

• East India Company Library: its seal (ff. 2r and 127v)
• Purchase notes dated 1192 and 1197 (f. 2r)
• Muḥammad [...] ([…] محمد ): his seal dated 1186/1772-73 (ff. 2r and 95r)
• Ṣabghat Allāh Khān (صبغة الله خان): his seal (f. 2r)

Immediate source of acquisition

From the library of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of Bengal (1773-85), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1809

Related material

Finding aids

Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. (London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 759, p. 221

Select Bibliography

Editions:

• ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb ; Sahāranpūrī, ʻIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʻẓam ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl, Anwār khulāṣat al-ḥisāb [margins], (Lakhnaw [?]: Maṭbaʿah Muḥammadīyah, 1846)
• Sahāranpūrī, c Anwār Khulāṣah al-ḥisāb: Sharḥ Khulāṣah al-ḥisāb: A Commentary (Incorporating the Text) on Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī's Manual of Arithmetic (Delhi: Hindū Press, 1876)
• Sahāranpūrī, ʻIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʻẓam ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl, Anwaro Kholasut-ool Hisab or, The Book of Arithmetic, by Maulana Ismut-oollah of Saharunpore , ed. by Qazee ool Qoozat Sayyidhamid-oolah [sic], Mooftee Abbas Alee, Mooftee Gorlam Soobhan and Hukeem Abd-ool Mujeed (Calcutta: s.n., 1929)

Editions of text commented upon:

• ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (Tabrīz?: Maṭba‘ Muḥammad Zuyūr, 1262)
• ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb: al-khulāṣat fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb wa al-jabr wa al-muqābilah; nuskhah-i taṣḥīh shudah hamrāh bā matn-i chāp-i sangī (Qum: Majma‘-i Z̲akhā’ir-i Islāmī, 2011)
• ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb, ma‘a taḥshīyah jadīdah kāfīyah li-ḥall al-ṣi‘āb wa-ḍamīmah lā’iqah bi-taḥṣīl al-nāzil wa-min al-judhūr wa-al-ki‘āb (Diyūband: Kutubʹkhānah-i Raḥīmīyah, 1974)
• ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Rīyāḍīyāt (Mathematical Works) , ed. by G. Shawky (Aleppo: Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, 1976) pp. 31-163

Edition and German translation of text commented upon:

• ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Essenz der rechenkunst von Mohammed Beha-eddin ben Alhossain aus Amul, arabisch und deutsch , ed. and trans. by G. H. F. Nesselmann (Berlin, 1843)

Studies:

• Hashemipour, Behnaz, '‘Āmilī: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 42-43

Subjects

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900Mathematics -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

‘Iṣmat Allāh ibn A‘ẓam SahāranfūrīBahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn 'Āmilī

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