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Sent: 26 May 2007 04:38 Dear Niall Al-Samhudi (d. 911: Shafi`ite faqih, famous as the author to histories of Medina; born in Upper Egypt, deceased in Medina) advices students, when they are to begin their qira'a in front of their shaykh, to first utter the "tarahhum (rahima-hu Allah/rahmatu Allah `alayhi)" for the book's author and then "radiya Allah `ankum" for the very person of the shaykh (who is of course breathing in front of the student!). Isnt't this useful? I transcribe: Wa yatarahhamu `ala musannif al-kitab `inda qira'at-hu, wa idha da`a al-talib li-al-shaykh, qala "wa radiya Allah `an-kum" aw `an shaykh-na wa imam-na wa nahwa (nahwi?) dhalika. Wa yaqsidu bi-hi al-shaykh . . . This is from al-Samhudi, Jawahir al-`Iqdayn, al-`Alili ed., Baghdad: Wizara al-Awqaf wa al-Shu'un al-Diniya, 2 vols. in 3 pts., 1984, vol. 1, p. 376. But, this portion of the work is virtually an abridgement of Ibn Jama`a's famous Tadhkira al-Sami` wa al-Mutakallim, and so, you will probably find the original in that work. Yours Kazuo Morimoto, Ph.D. Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo
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