INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 30 *• ARABIC COLLECTION We resume in this issue of the Research Review short descriptions of some of the Manuscripts held at the Institute that have already been catalogued. Although the work of cataloguing new manuscripts has been slowed down somewhat in recent months, we hope to be able to quicken the pace in this field fairly soon. This will enable us to make available to interested scholars, through the medium of this publication, a check-list of our new entries. IASAR/7: Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/11 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: K.O. ODOOM J . J. HOLDEN. ARABIC Ali b. Muhammad Baraw al-Salaghawi Fl NAJM DHI DHANAB WA ZALZALA"T SALAGHA Poem on the dating of the appearance of the comet and that of the earth quake of Salagha, with praise of Al-Hajj cUmar 1340 A . H. = 1921/22 Kete Krakye. 2 Folios. IASAR/I6(xi)/4O8 The dates given here are those provided by the author's shaykh al-Haji the comet appeared on 21 Shawal 1298 = 16 September, 1881, and the earth quake in 1309 A . H. = 1891/2 cUmar of Kete Krakye. According to him ARABIC Muhammad Ibn Mustafa • • • ISNAD AL-SHUYUKH WA'L-CULAMA Excerpts from Kitab Ghunja 1165 H. =1752. Daboya. 9 Folios IASAR/12; 13; 14. There is an addendum by Imam Umar Konadi b. Imoru, covering the period 1763 - 66. c * INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 31 IASAR/16(v?i): ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/16 (ix): Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: cAQlDA AL-SUNNA WA'L-TAWHlD Poem on tawhid Shawwal 742 AH = 1342 AD (see verses 82-84) Ma lam Baba Ibrahim, of Konongo. 5 Folios. pp. 88-97 of IASAR/16 ARABIC C . , -:Ali B. Muhammad Baraw Al-Salghawi QasTda in nun-alif in praise of Ahmad al-Tijani: with acrostic on name 27 Jumada" I, 1340 = 26 January, 1922 Ma lam Baba Ibrahim, of Konongo. 2 Polios Other copies: IASAR/H2 Notes: pp. 1 0 5 - 1 08 of IASAR/16 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 32 IASAR/18: ARABIC Author; Title; Description; Date of work; MS. from; Other copies: Notes: IASAR/23: Author; Title; Description; Date of work; MS. from; IBTI DA' DlN Fl WA FT C' AM 875 ILLACAM 1382 HIJRA Account of the beginnings of Islam in Wa from 1470-1963 1963 Imam Siddiq b. cAbd al-Mu'mtn, Wa. 1 Folio Apparently an abstract by Imam Stddf q of a longer work, believed to be still extant. ARABIC Al-Hajj CUmar of Kete Krakye (Attribution) TUNKUYAWA Poem on influenza, with a description of symptom and suggestions for treatment. Kete Krakye. 3 Folios Other copies: IASAR/131; 305. v * 3- ' I jf Jf t. --f r* INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 33 IASAR/32: Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: ARABIC Muhammad Al-Walf B. Shaykh_ Sulayman b. Muhammad al-Fulani AL-MINHAJ AL FARTD FF MACR|FAT CILMAL-TAWHFD Commentary on Sanusi's Aqidat al-sughra on tawhid Collected by Mahmud Wakkad, probably from Accra. 33 Folios Other copies Kensdale, p. 12 Notes: IASAR/38 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: ARABIC Abu Bakr Murjammad b. Muhammad b. A SIM AI-MalikT (died 829/1426) TUHFAT AL-HUKKAM R N U K AT AL-°UQUD WA'L- AHKAM Treatise on Maliki law, injxija* metre (with marginal notes) al-Hajj CAbda|lah b. al-Hajj al-Hasan, Friday imam ofYendi. 107 Folios Other copies See GAL, I I, p.341 (French translation and notes by Houdas and Martel, 1883 -1892/3 Notes: INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 34 . lASAR/44(q): GBANYITO with ARABIC GLOSS Author? Abu Bakr b. Muhamma °Alabira b. Sultan Kumbi Ibrahim Duthi Description: MS. from: Wa'z poem in Gbanyito, with Arabic Gloss Ma lam Abu Bakr b. Muhammad, of Kpandae. 8 Folios Other copies: IASAR/44 Notes: IASAR/44 : Author: Title: Dote of work: MS. from: Other Copies Notes: IASAR/51: Author: Title: Description: Date of work.' Other copies: GBANYITO Abu Bakr Duthi b. Muhammad Alabira b. Sultan Kumbi Ibrahim Ibrahim Duthi WACZ POEM IN GBANYITO Ma lam Abu Bakr b. Muhammad, of Kpandae. 7 Folios IASAR/44 (a) ARABIC Abu CAbdallah b. Salama b.JaCfarb. Muhammad b. CAlF al-Basr! al-Quda'f KITABSHIHABAL-DFN MIN AL-HIKMAWA'L-WASAVA WA'L-MAWA - IZ WA'L-ADAB Biography of the Prophet Before 454 AH/1062 A D. Imam Sa'fd b. qhlmam Adama, Imam of Gambaga. 32rblios. See GAL, 1, p.419 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 35 IASAR/57 ; ARABIC Author; Title; Abdallah b. Muhammad QARUBA AL-SACA CALAYKUM Description; Warning about the Last Day, consequences of bad deeds I* Date of work; MS. from; Other copies; and necessity of purification 1374 AH. =1928/29 AD al-Hajj Uthman Ishaq Boyo, Kintampo. 1 Folio IASAR/64 : ARABIC Author; Title: Description: Date of work; MS. from: Other copies: Notes; Hamid Baba b. Al-Fami b. Umar Al-Jannawi AWDA"H AL-MAS^LIK ILA FIHM IRSHA"D AL-Salik Commentary on the IRSHAD AL-SA"LIK IBN CASKAR (a work on MalFkF law, see GAL, I I, 163 and S,ll 205). Ma lam a I-Hasan Jurumi of Bobo Diou lasso. 1100 Folios. Foolscap Only first three and last three folios xeroxed. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS ARABIC IASAR/74: Author: Titles Description i Permission granted to Uthmam b. Ishaq to use the 36. - • * •! Tijani wird,signed and stamped by al-Hajj Musa a l- Quddus, Muqaddam in Tamale; with si Is? la. AH 1366 = 1946/7 AD al-Hajj CUthman b. Ishaq Boyo, of Kintampo. 2 Folios ARABIC Dote of works MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/82 Author: Titlei Description: Prayer followed by a Ti|ani guide to the recital of the prayers So lot al-fatiha and jawharat al-komal Date of works MS. from: Other copies: Notes s -.. c al-hajj Uthman Ishaq Boyo. 2 Folios INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 37- IASAR/86; Author; , Title; ARABIC Muhammad b. CAlfal-cAwfr (CGff) JA"MICAL-FARA'ID WA'L-SUNNAN Description.' Composition on the correct observance of the obligations of Islam, with quotations from classical writers. Date of work; MS. from; Ahmad Kamakati, Bonduku. 6 Folios. Other copies; Notes: IASAR/87; Author: Titles Description; Date of work; MS. from; Other Copies; • IASAR/380 This material is possibly an extract from A l- Awf?ya fi madhhob ol-Malikrya. Cf. GAL.S.11; p.960 ARABIC Muhammad ibn al-Shaykh Ff MADHI SAYYID AL-MUKHTA^^ Poem in praise of the Prophet , V Malam Ibrahfrn ibn CAbdalleSr Bamba, Wenchi. 9 Folios m INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 38' IASAR/8& Author.* Title; Description; Date of work; MS. from; Other copies: Notes: ARABIC A|-Ha}| Sa"lih b. Muhammad b.CUthma*n al-Jawanf . . .. al-TijanT Short Qasi da, explaining the meanings of various obscure words. Karamo Idris, Banda. 2 Folios IASAR/90 According to IASAR/90 (which is the TorbT C of this poem), this work was written as a reply to a question from the author's pupil Abu Bakr b. a I-Hasan al-Timitf IASAR/89 ; ARABIC Author; Title; Description; Date of works MS. from; Other copies; Notes! KITA"B AL-NASTHA On the obligation to study tawhid before proceeding to tcfefr and ftqh Imam Ibrahim b. Mu'min Jiyra of Boromo. 4 Folios. * "Owner of boohlbrahfm b. Mu'min nisba Ghlr b. JibrFl Ghfr, his mother Fatima" INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 39 IASAR/91 Author: Title: Description: ARABIC Umar Bamba (Attribution) MAWHUB AL-MANNAN A long biographical poem in 28 sections (corresponding to the letters of the Arabic alphabet) in praise of the Prophet. Date of work: 3 Ramadan 1279 = 21 Feb. 1863. MS. from: Other copies: IASAR/92: Author: Title: Descfiptibti: Date of work! MS. from; Other copies: •it al-Hajj Abd a I-Rahman Bamba ibn al-Hajj Abdallah • • • • Bamba; Banda. 25 Folios. Identical with IASAR/68 ARABIC CUmar Bamba (Attribution) AL-HAMDU LILLAH AL-MUKARRIM WA'L-SHUKR LILLAH AL-MUCAZZIM • • • Madih Poem in praise of the Prophet, with some account of ' the 4 Orthodox caliphs. Imam SaCfd b. Qadir Bamba, Banda Kankan. 9 Folios. Identical with IASAR/103; 150 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 40' ARABIC Al-Hajj °Umar of Kete Krakye SUCAD AW ASMA ASDACD AW HAWWA Qasida in praise of the town of Yendi in Dagomba, its people and their virtues, and an account of the warm reception which they gave the poet. A . H. 1335 = 1916 Ma I lam Harnna Watara, Bonduku. 5 Folios IASAR/181 ARABIC Elementary tawh id af-tfa§ 2 Folios. Uthman b. Ishaq Boyo, of Kintampo. IASAR/63 "Owner of rhe book (?) Muhammad b. al-Hasan Kamakati ". . < • • •« Date of work; MS. from: Other copies; IASAR/94 Author; Title; Description; Date of work; MS. from; Other copies; Notes: INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 41 IASAR/95 ; ARABIC * Author: Title: Muhammad b. Ya**qub Watara. DURRA AL-THANA1 c -, 'ALA J A B IN AL-KURAMA Description: Qasida in praise of al-Hajj Salih al-Jawanf al-Tijanf, who died at Wenchi in 1351/1932-33 Date of work: After 1351 A . H .? MS. from: Mai lam Adam Konate Salih, Wenchi. 6 Folios Other Copies: IASAR/355 IASAR/97: ARABIC Author; Title: Description: Compilation of miscellaneous traditions, with extracts from the Muslim jurists, and stories from Islamic and pre-lslamic history. Date of work: MS. from; Other copies: Notes: Malam Adam Kunati) of Wench!. 16 Folios. "Owner of the book SaCfd b. al-Hajj Ya°qub Kunati, town of (?) Ghanlr, living in Wenchi. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 42- IASAR/130; ARABIC Author: Title; Description; Date of work; M 5. from! Other copies: IASAR/132; Author: ription; Date of work; MS. from; Other copies; CAbdallah b. Muhammad b. CUthman Ibn FudF QasTda fi madh aslah Cibad Allah • Madi h Poem in praise of the Prophet « • • Jumada 1 1, 1202 = March/Apr i ll 788 Kete Krakye. 4 Folios. IASAR/16 (xvii); 227 ARABIC Al-Hajj cUmar of Kete Krakye BARk AL-HAQQ A poetical letter addressed to the author's son and members of the Muslim Community, urging them to avoid enmity and not to dispute among themselves because of differences of tribe. 1353 A H. ~ 1932/33 Kete Krakye. 2 Folios. ' .#• INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 43 IASAR/136 ARABIC Yusufu MADlH MUSA" Poem in praise of Musa Dagomba who had succeeded his father and grandfather and brought happiness to the Dagombas, with a criticism of those who did not follow him, and an expression of hope that God may pre- serve him from the Christians. 13 Muharram 1315 = 14 June 1897 Muhammad Limam Thani , Kete Krakye 4 Folios. ARABIC Silsila for the study of the Qur'an for Idris Kuhnatawi b. Ya _qub Kuhnatawi through various Kurubarf and Saghanughu, etcvshaykhs. c -i al-Hajj Idrfs b. Ya qub Kunatay, of c -, Sunyani. 3 Folios. Date of Work MS. from: IASAR/141 Author: Description: Date of work; MS. from; Other cbpiesi Nbtes j INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 44. IASAR/142 : ARABIC Authors Title; - • Description: Silsila for Qadiriya, starting with Shaylch Abd al-Qadir al-Jilanf, and passing through. Inter alia Saghanughu shaykhs Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/146: Author: Title Description: Date of work? MS. from l Other copies? Notes: Idrft b. Ya Cqub Kunatoy, of Su q M -% 5 folio*. • . ' ' " - • ARABIC Al-Hajj Salih b. Muhammad b. CUthman al-Jawanf al-Tijan? BISH^RA. Letter from al-Hajj Salih to Muhammad ibn al-HaJi cAbd al-Rahman KunbalF (by tribe) describing his h a j j, and asking his greetings to be extended to his Sultan Tan Date (Gyamanhene) Al-Hajj Ibrahim, Sunyani. 1 Folio This letter which was written from Mecca, arrived ort 16 RabfCU 1328 = 27 April, 1910. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 45' IASAR/155: ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Hujuji • « • TAYASSUR AL-AMANf LI-QIRA'A SHUHADAT AL-JANF Summary of the work, Shuhadat al-Jani fi ikhtisar Ahkam fariqat al-TijanT. A work on the rules of Tijaniyya Al-Hajj Ahmad Baba al-Wa iz Kumasi. 12 Folios The work breaks off on Folio 12b IASAR/156: ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from! Other copies: Notes: If"-* - V f * t * 1 X y- * 4 Muhammad Bello » QASfDA IN DAL IN PRAISE OF THE PROPHET Ma lam a I-Hasan b. Abi Bakr. 3 Folios Identical with IASAR/5, attributed to CUthman ibn Fudi INDIVfDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 46. IASAR/159 Author: Title: Description; Date of Work: MS. from: Other copies: IASAR/161 Author: Title: Description: Date of Work: MS. from; Other Copies: ARABIC Al-Hajj CUmar of Kete Krakye (At- tribution) Elegy on the author's son, Al-Hajj Muhammad Labbu MB * • Malam Abu Bakr b. cUmor Krakye 4 Folios ARABIC Al-Hajj cUmar of Kete Krakye Poem thanking those who made con- tributions for the repair of the mosque (? in Kete Krakye), with special praise for Salaw, Amir Zanghu 3 Jumada 1, 1359 = 9 June 1940 Kete Krakye. 3 Folios. IASAR/9. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 47. IASA1V162 Author ; Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASA^/163 Author: Title; Description: Date of work: MS. from : Other copies: Notes i ARABIC Sanad for tafsir, from Imam Malik through various Saghanughu, etc. teachers, to a l- Ha Uthman b. Ishaq 1378 AH = 1958/9 al-Hajj Uthman b. Ishaq Boyo, of Kintampo. 1 Folio. ARABIC Silsila for Imam Malik's Muwatta ' through inter alia, various Saghanughu shaykhs to Imam Malik. 1961 al-Hajj Uthman b. Ishaq Boyo, of Kintampo 1 Folio. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 48- IASAR/165: ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of Work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: Uthman b. Muhammad b. AbF Bakr Poem on the necessity of observing Muslim law in matters of marriage, divorce and inheritance. Abu Bakr Ishaq Aboabo, Kumasi. 11 Folios. Date of copy is given as 1336 H. = 1917/18 IASAR/166 : ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Notes: (1) (2) (3) MS. in 3 sections: "History of my grandfather", Moru Sanbi, and the date of his death, 3 RabF C|, 1334=9 Jan. 1916 Date of the death of Muhammad b. al-Hajj cAbd a l- Rahmam Qunbalf. 1349 H = 1930 * "History of Bonduku" in 6 lines: Christians at Bonduku in 1350 H. = 1931; death of al-Hajj Salih Limam Yusufu b. Ibrahim Kamaghate, Dormaa Ahenkro. 3 Folios. Copy of this MS. was made in the hand of Ibrahfm Kamaghate in July 1963. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 49- IASAR/167 Author: Title: Description: Dote of Work: MS. from"; Other copies: ARABIC Mu'ayyad al-Din al-lsfahani al-Tughrabi al-Baghadadi Kitab al-lamiyat a l- Ajam Lamentations on the sad state of the times etc, Before 515 H. = 1121. Imam Alamusu Watara, Duayaw Nkwanta. 3 Folios GAL. 1, 247. IASAR/168 ARABIC *• * *• * Date of Work; MS. from; Other Copies: IASAR/172 Al-Hajj Umar Krachi Tanana bishr Poem, with introduction about the writing of Qajidas in praise of Salaw, Amir Gha- danfaru. Mubarram 1343 = August, 1924 Malam al-Hasan Kamaghate, Kete Krache. 9 Folios. IASAR/16 (v) ARABIC CUTHMAN B. FUDl (first.yersel_HAL U MASlR NAHW TAYBA MUSRI0 A N. Description: Qasida in da I in praise of the Prophet INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 50. Date of work; MS. from: A . H. 1183 = 1770 (?) Malam a I-Hasan Kamaghate of Kete Krakye 3 Folios. Other copies: IASAR/5; / 2 5; and also probably Kensdale 83/104 al-qasida ad-dalfya ffmadh annabl Notes: IASAR/175 Author: Tftle: Description; MS. from! Other copies; ARABIC ASA"NFD AL-MUWATTA"; A S A N FD AL-QUR'AVl AL-CAZ1M. MS. in 2 sections: (1) Isnads for Ibn Malik's Mawutta (11) Isnads for the Holy Qur'an. 14 Sarar 1338 - 21 October, 1919. Limam Yosuf b. Ibrahim Kamaghate, Dormaa Ahenkro. 1 Folio. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 51. IASAR/179: Author: Title: Description Date of work; MS. from; Other copies: Notes: IASAR/183 Author: Title: Description: MS. from: Other copies: ARABIC Abu Bakr A lf b. al-Shaykh A prayer of a pious Muslim asking God to protect him from all evil. At the end he invokes for his aid a Silsala of about 40 shaykns, starting with CAbd al-Qadir ahJilan! founder of the Qadiriya). Al-tiajj Ya qub b. Uthman Watara, Nomasa. 7 Folios. Most of the shaykhs mentioned are either from East or West and none is definitely recognizable as Western Sudanese. ARABIC Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Muhammad. Rajaz in 14 Fusul, describing Paradise. Jumada' 1, 1217 = 1802 al-Hajj Mu'min b. CAbdallah Komaghate, Takyimantia. 8 Folios. >*- >. t *. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 52 IASAR/185 i Author: ARAB rC Abu Modyan Shu ayb b. al-Husayn dl-Ansari al-Tilimsani AL-JAWHAR S A Q L AN LI-MA SHARA AL-HIJA M IN AL-SADA Description ; A Sufi Poetry. Date of Work; MS. from; Other copies? Notes J Before 598 H. =1193 Karamo Ya qub Kamaghate, Namasa. 6 Folios IASAR/58; 98; 111 In GAL. 1, (566) other works by the same author are classified under the category of mystics. That will put the date of this work before 598 AH; the year of the author's death. IASAR/186: Author: ARABIC Siraj al-DFn b. CUthman a l- UshF al-Farghani, Imam al-Haramayn Title; AL-QASIDA A L - L A M F YA F! TAWHFD OR Description: Date of work! MS. from! Other copies! BAD'AL-AMALF Poem on Tawhi d Before 569 H. = 1173 al-Haii Idrissu Banff, Kete Krakye. 4 Folios QAL.l 429 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 53. IASAR/189 Author: Title; Description: Date of Work: MS. from; ARABIC CABDALLArJ b. FUDf TAZYfN A L - W A R A C I AT BI-JAMC B ACD MA" l\ MIN AL-ABYA*T See IASAR/2 See IASAR/2 al-Hajj Ahmad Baba a l - W ^ i z, of Aboabo, Kumasi. 32 Folios. Other Copies: See IASAR/2 Notes: IASAR/190 Author: Title: Description: ARABIC Al-Hajj Ahmad Baba Ten documents written down by the author foral-HajieUthman b. Ishaq. (1) , Permission to use the Tijani wird given to Date: (2) Ahmad b. Ahmad by Abu Bakr b. Musa al-KathnawJ (of Katsina), now in Kumasi, with his Isnad. 19DhG ATTTiJia , 1351 =1931. Ahmad b.*Abd al-Rahman Kataghumf appoints al-Hajj Ahmad b. Ahmad from Sokoto (now in Kumasi) Muqaddam of the V. * '•if- INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 54 Tijaniyya Given in Madina 22 Dhu al-Hijja 1362 = 1943 (3) Ijaza in Tafsir given from Madina to Ahmad Baba al-Muqaddam al-lmam b. Ma lam Abmad al-Falatf, from Kumasi by Ahmad b. Abd a I-Rahman Muhammad • • . • b. Amir Katagum and by Matam Ibrahim (known as *%.] Date: 24 Dhu al-Hijja 1364 = 30 November 1945. Malam Zakf) (4) Permission to use the Tijanf wird given to al-Hajj Ahmad Baba in Kumasi by al-HTjj Ibn Umar b. Muhammad • • • al-Kabir al-Bashir b. Muhammad a I -Habib b. Ahmad Date: al-Tijani. He also gives his silsila Tijaniyya. 27 RabfCal-awwal 1368 = 27 Jan. 1949. Permission to teach the Tijani wird and to initiate novices (5) into the order, given in Kumasi by Shaykh al-Hajj Muhammad a l- r_ b. Sfdf al-cAlaw7, with the'authority of Shaykh 6I-Haji. Abdallah (Anyas). No date. Ibrahim b. al-Hajj Abd-Allah Anyas confirms (6) with his signature the former permission to al-Hajj Ahmad Baba. No date. (7) A permission to teach the Tijani wird given to a l- Hajj Ahmad Baba al-WaCiz b. al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Falatf written by CAlf Sfsf b. AI-Hasan by authority of al-Hajj Ibrohfm b. Al-Hajj CAbdallah (Anyas). Given in Kaolack in the beginning of Shacba"n< 1369 = May 1950. -a INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 55- (8) in Tafslr and Hadfth given to al-Hajj Ahmad Ijaza B^ba al-Wa ciz by Yahudha b. SaCd from Zaria with the letter's SiIsila ?n TafsTr Date: 2 Jgmada I I, 1372 = 17 February, 1953. (9) Ijaia in the Sciences of Logic and Tradition (al- ma -"out wq'manqul) given to Aljtwd Baba a l- Waiz (from KumasI) by CAb^s a I-C A law! a l- Malfkf al-Makkf. (Written in Mecca on 14 Dhu al-Hijja 1371 =4 September, 1952. (TO) Permission given to al-Hajj Ahrnad Baba a l- W aCiz by Ibrahim b. Al-Hajj CAbdallah (Anyas) to teach his writings gnd the Tijani Wird. Written in Kaolack on 8Sha Cban 1373 • TTSpril, 1954, Al-Hajj Ahmad Baba al-Wa ^iz Abuabu, Kumasi. 20 Folios^' .- c. Detailed description of this MS. has been given here because of its interest for the study of contemporary West African Tijaniyya. MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/192: ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from:"" Other copies: Notes: Karamoko Turay AL-BADR AL- KUBRA Poem on the battle of Badr and the victory of the Brophet. Imam Musa Warara, Duayaw Nkwanta. 3 Folios. The author of this MS. is said to have died about 18 years ago. On the last page is a prayer by AksFnF Adama(?) asking God to protect him from evil. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 56 IASAR/193: ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from;- Uthman Ibn Fudi IHYA AL-SUNNA WA IKHMAD AL-BIDCA A major theological and legal work of CUthman Ibn Fudi. Al-Hajj Ahmad taba al-Wa cfz, Abuabu Kumasi. 123 Folios. Other copies: See Kensdale, p. 13 ; Vafda, p.230 IASAR/194; ARABIC • Author: Title: Description : Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: Umar b. Tahir b. Abd al-Rahmari b. Tahir al-Sanuwi * • • " Poem about Fasting and the Hajj 1349 H. (?) = 1930 Salim Sulayman Jani, Osu-Accra. 4 Folios. The piece on the last page was written by a I-Hajj Marhaba of Bobo Dioulasso. . • «. * INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 57 IASAR/195 : Author: Title: Description: Dote 6f Work: MS. from; Other Copies: IASAR/196 Author; Title? Description: Date of work; MS. from? Other Copies Notes: ARABIC Malam Zam'a (? Zum'a; Zim'a) b. al-lmam Muhammad al-Falatf AL-QA5DAAL-LA*M!YA AL-SUGHRA" An elegy on the author's brother, Mub_ammad Baqu, (mom of Accra who died on Dhu al-QaSte 1356 = 23 January 1938, describing his merits and funeral. 1356 = 1938 Malam Adam b. Malam*Uthman Tanrabarni, Amakom, Kurnasi. 5 Folios. HAUSA Poem in praise of Ahmad al-TijanT Malam Adam b. Uthman Tantabirni, of Amakom/ Kumasi. 3 Folios. Described as 'the sixty first song1. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 58 IASAR/ 197: ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of Work; MS. from: Other copies: Notes: Imam Ahmad Bakr TAKHMTS AL-QASFDA TUSAMMA MARMUZ AL- TANTARANI A poem in praise of an Amfr? See below. Before455 H. =1092 al-lmam Muhammad b Abdallah Masu Kano, Takyiman. 5 Folios. Jantarani, who wrote in praise of the Wazir Nizam al-Mulk, Alp Arslan and Malik-Shah, died in 455 H/1092 See G a l. 1 , 2 5 2. IASAR/T98 : ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Dote of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: Jala I a I-Din Abd a I-Rahman al-Suyuti URJUZA MUFIDA Compilation of sayings on burial rites. Before 909 H = 1503. al-lmam Muhammad b. Abdallah Masu Kano. Takyiman. 10 Folios. This is possibly Ar-Tathbi"t f? gUm al-tabyft See GAL. I I, 3T <«- ** * ^, INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS IASAR/199: Author: Title; Description: Date of work? Other copies: Notes: HAUSA Abu Bakr CAtfq B. Al-Hadir AI-KathinawF Al-Ti}ani. CAYBA"T AL-FUQAR^1 Ff MADH 1CHATIM AL- AWLIYA1 AHMAD B. MUHAMMAD AL-TIJA"NI. Poem in praise of Ahmad al-Tijaji Ma lam Adam b. Uthman Tantabirnl, of Amakom, Kumasl. 10 Folios. In print from Kano dd. 1 Sha cban 1380/1960 IASAR/201 Author: Title: Description: Date of Work: MS. from! Other Copies: ARABIC Karamo Mama Watara Barabo (Oral Attribution) Recommending drinking of wine with ginger and pepper, sweet milk and cheese, and in particular, honey. Malam Yusufu Ibn IbrahFm Kamaghate Dormaa Ahenkro. 2 Folios. 9 1 -* '- * Vi * INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 60- 1ASAR/20S ARABIC Author; Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: IASAl^/210: Author: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: IASAR/212: Author: KITA"B QAWA'ID AL-SALAT WA'L-WUDU 1 * • • Book on the rules of Prayer, Ablution and Impurity. Sarkin Bako Mlzimata (Salaga) of Kete Krakye. 4 Folios. ARABIC Abui Hasan al-Wa C?z 4 Exhortation in Verse to observe the rules of Islam in various aspects of life. Al-Hajj Shuay b i, Kete Krakye. 8 Folios. ARABIC CAbd-AMah b. Muhammad b. CUthman al-Fdlatf ikT al-Ash Ca r r £7 Title: SAB"? L AL-NAJA (The Path for Salvation) INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 61 Description: Date of Work; MS. from: Other Copies: Notes: IASAR/2V7 Author: Title: Description: Date of Work MS. from: Other Copies Notes: -*-*• ft >-> ;• *• > f * i Compilation of some writings of the Imams (? Founders of the 4 schools of Law) for the benefit of Muslims. 2 Chapters: (1) On Repentance (2) Observing the conduct of the five "limbs" of the body - eye, ear, tongue, heart, belly. Al-lmam al-Hajj Muhammad a I-Than i, Kete Krakye.' 4 Folios. See Kensdale, p.6 Folios 1 (a) &4 (b) contain charms, magic squares etc. ARABIC Exhortations and Praise of the Prophet. 23 Jumada II348 = 1^29 (See end of MS.) , Malam Abd Bakr b. Al-Hajj •Umar Krakye, Kete Krakye. 14 Folios. At the end of the MS. is written in pencil the name: Al-Haj} Muhammad Labu al-Kabawi nisban Krakchi. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 62 IASAR/245: Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: ARABIC 'L-Hasan cAlF AI-MalikF Al-Shadhlll Abu (died c' 939/1530) TUHFAT AL-MUSALU CALA MADH HAB AL-IMAM MALIK The way of worship according to the Maliki school Sha Cba"n 903 • March - April, 1498. al-Hajj Ya qub Watara, of Namasa. 17 Folios. GAL, I I, p.411. BUichet,5322. In leather binder. IASAR/306 ARABIC Author: Title: Muhammad Be Ho (?) (first verse begins a la ya nofs) Description: Qaslda ending in nun in which the author described his own funeral. Date of work: MS. from: Imam Ahmad b. Abd al-Qadir, Friday Imam of Other copies: IASAR/294; /394 llbrin. 2 Folios. Notes: If *• > -• i T * 0 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 63 IASAR/332 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/338 Author: Title: Description: • Dote of Work: MS. from* Other copies: Notes: ARABIC given to Malam Yusuf b. CAbd a I-Rahman by Ahmad al-HabFb b. Nuru b. al-Haji CUmar al-Futf to perform the Tijanr wird. Masses through al-HajJ cUmaral-Futf Malam Baku Mizimata of Kete Krakye. 2 Folios. ARABIC Isnad fortoftir foral-Hajj SaCfd b. CAbd al-Rahman, paning through, intej; alia, various Saghanughu Shaykhs to Imam Malik. Imam al-Hajj SaCfd of Wenchi. 3 Folios. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 64. IASAR/369; Author; Title; Description; Dote of work; MS. from; ARABIC CAbdallah b. Fudf TA'KHMlS ON THE QA"$A"'ID A L ^ A S H R F Y AT A L - R A H M A "N AL-FA"2AZr Popular poem giving advice on religious questions. O FCA BD al-Hajj CAbd al-Hamfd b. CAbd al-Qadir, imam of Imali quarter of Illorin. 30 Folios. Other Copies: |ASAR/34;/3Q2. For al-qasa'td ol^ashrfyoti. See Kensdale 82/27, and GAL suppl. 1 p. 482-3 Notes: IASAR/374 ; ARABIC Author; Title; Uthman b. Fudi NUR AL-ALBAB Description? List and discussion of the various classes of Muslims Dote of work; MS. from; and pagans. pre A . H. 1227 = 1812 (from D . M. Last C . A . D . I ., 2, p.4.) Original IAS MS. col lection, bgon,copied from MS in possession of Ma lam Habibu Ahmad b. Imam Haliru of Gambari quarter, Illorin. 11 Folios. Other cdptes; IASAR/114; /395; see also Kensdale 82/58; Vadfa, Nbtes; p.230; GAL II p.656. * INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 65- IASAR/379: Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/382 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: ARABIC Collection of Masa'il (queries of a religious nature) e . g. the time taken to create the world, punishment for talking in mosques, or during the reading of the Qur'fln. Discussion of points raised in hadiths. Imam Karamo Ghawso of Takiri near Sunyani. 16 Folios. ARABIC CAbdallah TAKHMTS ONTHEQASA'ID AL-CASHRTYAT OF b. Fudf ""ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-FAZAZI Popular poem giving advice oh religious questions. Malam Abd al-Mu'min, Imam Kabti, Salagha. 37 Folios. IASAR/34; / 3 6 9. Foral-qasa'id al-Cashriyat see Kensdale 82/27 and GAL. SUPPL.I, p.482-2 * INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 66- IASAR/393; ARABIC Author; Title; MACDIN AL-DHAHAB Ff IJLA' QULUB AL CA"BIDTN Description; Collection of traditions, on the excellence of know- ledge, baraka, etc. etc. with a short sanad Date of work; MS. from: Other copies; Notes: al-Hajj a I-Imam b. al-Hajj C Abdullah Bamba of • • • Wenchi. 90 Folios. "Owner of the book al-lmam b. al-Hajj c Abdullah * • **. b. Da'ud Damutiri Kuruwi, of tribe Banbawi nisban" IASAR/394; ARABIC Author; Title: Date of work: MS. from: Other Copies; Notes: Muhammad Bello (?) (firt verse; a la yd nafs wayhki hadithahi...) Qasida ending in nun in which the author describes his own funeral. Bida, Northern Nigeria. 2 Folios. IASAR/294; /306 The copyist has added aya to each terminal ndh ft*. • * * • r **" "* " * * * V* INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 67 IASAR/395 ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Dqteof work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/411 Author: Title: Description: Date of Work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: CUTHMAN b. FUDl NUR AL-ALBAB List and discussion of the various classes of Muslims and pagans. pre A . H. 1227 = 1812 (from D . M. Last, C . A . D . I. 2, p.4) I.A.S. Legon, collected in Bida, Nupe. 8 Folios. IASAR/114; IASAR/374 see also Kensdale Vadja, p.230; GAL. II p.656. HAUSA CUTHMAN b. TABA AL-HAQlQ Poem exhorting chiefs and imams to rule justly, and other people to repent their sins. Malam Shahat, of Nsawam. 6 Folios. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 68 IASAR/420 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/422 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other Copies; Notes: HAUSA Rilwan Namaka b. Abu Bakr, from Sokoto, staying in Accra. - In praise of Ahmad ol-Tijani (with referenc the Fodio, 1. s.) - Malam Muhammad Dan Inna, of Nsawam. 6 Folios. - _ ARABIC AL-HAJJ * ABDALLAH B. SACTD Poem in praise of Ahmad a l - T i j a ji Malam Adam b. Urhan Tantabiri. 2 Folios. ««*. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 69 IASAR/424 Author: Title: ARABIC Description : Devotional poem ending in lamynentioning shaykh al-Tijani Al-haji °Abdallab hiasan, of Aboso. 2 Folios. ARABIC Isnad for the study of the Qur'an for al-Hajj Uthman b. Ishaq, through, inter alia, Sagha- nughu shaykhs. 13 shawwal 1378 = 22 April 1959 al-Hajj Uthman b. 3 Folios. lshaq< Boyo, of Kintampo. Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: IASAR/427 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: OtherCopies Notes: F * - # v*. ^ -* •** INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 70 IASAR/428 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other copies; Notes: IASAR/431 Author: Title: Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other Copies: Notes: ARABIC CU T H M £N b. FUDl BAYAN AL-BIDAC A L - S H A Y T A NI YA ALLATI AHOATHAHA ALGA'S PI AIWAB AL-MILLA AL-MUHAMMADIYA <. •• • , • • Explanation and condemnqtion of pagan practices in prayers, clothing, ritual ablution, food and drink etc. • ' * I.A.S, Legon, copied from MS. in possession of Limam Haliru of Gambari qgarter, Illorin. 22 Folios. Kensdale 82/52; Vadja p.230 • • *. ARABIC ABU MUHAMMAD B. IBRAHIM MUHAMMAD B. AL-FASIRI (? or ALFA S.R.) Rajaz on questions of inheritance according to Maliki law, following the Mukhtasar of Khalll b. Uhaq. Imam al-Hajj Quddus Timiti, of Bonduku. 8 Folios. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 71, \ T IASAR/436: Author: Title; Description t Date of work; MS. from\ Other copfasi Notes: ARABIC Muhammad Bello KITAB USUL AL-DIN Malam Adam Kunatay, of Wench!. 4 Folios. Colophon contains name of previous owner of MS, Hamld.. b. Baba Kunatay. IASAR/437 ARABIC Author; Title; Description; Permission to use the Tljanf wird given to Muhammad Janma by Ibrahim b. Abi Bakr, with si 1st la to Ahmad al-Tijani Date of work: A . H. 1359/AD 1940 MS. from Muhammad Janma. b. Abi Bakr, of Elmlna 1 Folio. Other copies; Notes: t • INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 72- IASAR/439 Author: Title; Description: Date of work: MS. from: Other Copies: Notes: IASAR/444 Author: Titles Description: Date of work; MS. from Other copies; Notes: ARABIC Silsila for tafsFr foral-Hajj b. Salfh Banbawi al-Faghulawi , through, inter alia, various Saghanughu shaykhs to Imam Malik. Imam al-Hajj SaCfd Banba, of Wenchi. 2 Folios. ARABIC Sanad for the Qur'an, from Imam Malik through, inter alia, various Saghanughu Shaykhs, to Abd a I-Rahman b. Hamkr Tarawiri 1370 AH =1950/1 Ma lam Abd al -Rahman Tarawiri, of Old Tafo, Kumasi. 1 Folio. • • • *, INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS 73- IASAR/44& ARABIC Author: Title: Description: Date of work; MS. from: Other copies; Notes: List of the twelve sons of a I-Mustafa Saghan- hghu: a prayer. al-Hasan b. Sharif b. a I-Hasan Saghannghu/ of Sunyani. 2 Folios. IASAR/450: HAUSA Author: Title: Description: Letter from Sultan of Kurghu Abani to Imam of Gambaga, with gifts to y Date of work: MS. from: Other copies: Notes: Ghana National Archives, ADN paper extracted by J. Goody) . 2 Folios.