ʿUṭayfī, Ramaḍān ibn Mūsá al-Ḥanafī al-

Data of life

* 1019 / 1610

† 10. Ǧumādā II 1095 /25. Mai 1684 in Damaskus

Manuscripts

Author [DE-SBB] Landberg 819 - 11: Ijāzah (ʿUṭayfī, Ramaḍān ibn Mūsá al-Ḥanafī al-)
Author [DE-SBB] Ms. or. oct. 1867 - 2: Riḥlah ilá Ṭarābulus al-Shām al-wāqiʿah fī sanah 1043 (ʿUṭayfī, Ramaḍān ibn Mūsá al-Ḥanafī al-)
Scribe [DE-SBB] Sprenger 998 - 1a: al-Kināyah wa-al-taʿrīḍ (Thaʿālibī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-)
Scribe [DE-SBB] Wetzstein I 20: Tarjamat al-ʿallāmah al-Suyūṭī (Dāʾūdī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-)
Scribe [DE-SBB] Wetzstein I 125: Tuḥfat al-udabāʾ wa-salwat al-ghurabāʾ (Khiyārī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-)
Scribe [DE-SBB] Wetzstein II 1822 - 1: Kitāb al-Malāḥin (Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan)
Scribe [DE-SBB] Wetzstein II 1822 - 2: [Two letters] (Avicenna)
Author [DE-UBL] Vollers 725: al-Thabat min Ramaḍān ibn Mūsá al-ʿUṭayfī (ʿUṭayfī, Ramaḍān ibn Mūsá al-Ḥanafī al-)

Manuscript notes

Previous Owner Ms. orient. A 747 / 1r / 1 (ownership entry)
Witness Ms. orient. A 747 / 1r / 2 (ownership entry)
Reader Ms. orient. A 747 / 167r / 1 (reading entry)
Previous Owner Landberg 924 / 1r / 1 (ownership entry)
Previous Owner Sprenger 42 / 1r / 1 (ownership entry)
Reader Sprenger 477 / 128r / 1 (reading entry)
Reader Sprenger 868 / 1r / 1 (reading entry)
Previous Owner Sprenger 997 / 1r / 1 (ownership entry)
Previous Owner Wetzstein I 20 / 1r / 1 (ownership entry)
Reader Wetzstein I 40 / 146v / 1 (reading entry)
Scribe Wetzstein I 57 / 0 / 1 (ownership entry)
Previous Owner Wetzstein I 125 / 1r / 1 (ownership entry)
Previous Owner Wetzstein II 15 / 5r / 1 (ownership entry)
Previous Owner Wetzstein II 136 / 1r / 1 (ownership entry)

Name

Biographic info

Date of birth

1019 / 1610

Date of death

10. Ǧumādā II 1095 /25. Mai 1684

Place of death

Damaskus

Sex

male

Confession of faith

Sunni

Area of activity

Damaskus

Area of activity

GND: 040109569

Literature

Muḥibbī: Khulāṣat II, pp. 164-166, no. 429;
Maḥāsinī, Ismā‛īl al-: Kunnāsh [=Ṣafaḥāt min tārīḫ Dimašq fī l-qarn al-ḥādī ‛ašar al-hiǧrī, mustaḫraǧa min Kunnāš Ibrāhīm al-Maḥāsinī. Ed. by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Munajjid. In: Majallat Ma‛had al-Makhṭūṭāt al-‛Arabiyya 6 (1960), pp. 77-160], p. 99.
GAL S II, p. 666; Ziriklī: Aʿlām III, p. 33.
Cf. for the endowment of his books already (albeit with many mistakes) El-Zawāhreh: Religious endowments, pp. 82, 83, 174.
A posthumous court-process dealing with a challenge to his donation of books is documented in the Syrian National Archives / Markaz al-Wathā’iq al-Tārīkhiyya: sijill 12 / wathīqa 582 / p. 301, dated 15.6.1095 / 30.5.1684. I thank Dr. Astrid Meier (Beirut) for pointing me to this document.

bib. Reference

GAL S II/666; Kaḥḥāla IV/172-73; Ziriklī III/33

General info

Source of data

local record

Identifier

GND: 136409105

Remarks

Owner of
Berlin Landberg 924; Sprenger 42, 997+998; Wetzstein I 20 (also copyist in 1059) 57 (also copyist 1056), 125 (also copyist 1083); Wetzstein II 15, 136, 1764 (also copyist), 1822 (partly also the copyist in 1091);
Copenhagen Cod.Arab. 266;
Damascus Ẓāhiriyya 2208 adab 27 (already possessed by the father; cf. catalogue Murad / Sauwas: Qism al-Adab I, p. 375), 3561+3562 (cf. catalogue Luġa I, p. 279), 3563 (1095 auctioned off from his estate; cf. catalogue Lugha I, p. 281), 4131 (donated to the library of the Madrasa Bādhrā’iyya, cf. Murad / Sauwas: Qism al-Adab I, p. 305), 6822 ʿāmm (cf. catalogue Lugha II, p. 169);
Leiden Or. 1515 (1077, also the copyist, cf. Witkam: Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts of the library of the University of Leiden, vol. II, Leiden 2007, p. 164);
London BL Or. 3623 (cf. a reproduction of the title page in Wright: The look of the book, p. 6);
Paris BNF Arab. 669.
Reader of Berlin Sprenger 477 (he makes a copy from this MS), 868; Wetzstein I 40; Gotha orient. A 747 (1081, cf. also Weisweiler: Der islamische Bucheinband, p. 127, no. 175); Princeton Garret No. 196B, 511Y (1070), 530Y.
Owner or reader of Cambridge Qq 125 (his father had copied the book in 991, he himself leaves many annotations according to Browne: A handlist of the Muhammadan manuscripts, Cambridge 1900, p. 23, wrongly called here Ramaḍān b. Mūsā ʿAdhīfī al-Ḥanafī).
Copyist of Damascus Ẓāhiriyya 2584 (1067, cf. catalogue Fiqh ḥanafī II, p. 286), 3342 (1079, cf. catalogue Adab I, p. 440), 4131 (1051, cf. catalogue Adab I, p. 305), 5688 (1074), 8438 (1086, cf. catalogue Fiqh ḥanafī I, p. 416).
According to Maḥāsinī and documentary sources, al-ʿUṭayfī donated his books for the benefit of his daughter shortly before his death.

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