فَلا يُورث ناخود میں نافی وهَكَدَى العَالَى السَّدِيدُ الصَّابِبُ

تعدیم كانهم اجانب وهلدي المترات بينت

إلَى الْقَوْلُ عَلَى مَا شِيْنَا مِنْ قَسَمَةِ

على طريق الرمز والإشاك مُلَخَصَا يا وخزاعـ فالحمد لله على النما حمَّدًا كَثِيرًا لَمَّا دَوَامِ ولسل العفو عن التقصير وخير ما ناقل 2 المحير وَعَفْرمات من الذنوبي وتَتَرَها كَانَ مِنَ الْعُيُوبِ وأنضَلُ الصَّلوة والتسليم على النبي المصطفى الك مُحمد خير الأنامِ العاقِب وآلِهِ الغُرِّد ولى المناق مَحْبَهِ الأفاضل الابرار الصفق الاماثل الأخيـ

من و الحمد للدار العالمية وصلواته علامة

عاید امحمد اعلى الى على اله والحمد الطبيبة الطاهر
ما و
ليله الجعد الاربع ليا يخلون من شوال سیدلی و و سلام
شو با سه تعالی فحاشا تعالی عفان شبه
في

THE DESIRED OBJECT OF THE INQUIRER

CONCERNING ALL THE RULES OF INHERITANCE:

Composed by the learned Shaikh, the Imám

Mowaffiko' ddein, father of Abdalla,

Mohammed, son of Ali, son of Hosain,

Al Rahabi, commonly called Ibno'l

Motakanna. May God be merciful to him!

In the name of God, the Clement, the Merciful; and

from Him we seek assistance.

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FIRST, we open the discourse

With pronouncing the praise of our Lord most High:
Praise then to GOD for what he hath bestowed,
Praise, by which we remove blindness from the sight!
Next, benediction afterwards and salutation

To the Prophet, whose religion is the ISLA'M,
MOHAMMED, seal of his Lord's messengers,
And his family, after him, and his friends!
And let us pray GOD for his aid to us

In what we have proposed to explain

From the system of the Imám, ZAID ALFARADHI *, (Since this is among the noblest of purposes)

By learning; for learning is the most deserving of efforts In it, and the worthiest vocation of the pious;

And this branch of knowledge peculiarly belongs to what Has been openly declared among all the learned;

And ZAID has unquestionably a just title

To what the lord of the mission conferred on him,

By pronouncing his excellence, clearly saying,

"ZAID will teach you the law :" O glorious encomium! He, therefore, best deserves to be followed by the student, Especially since SHAFIEI takes him for a guide.

This then is his doctrine epitomised

* Faradh'éi, a man skilled in the farayidh', or sacred ordinances contained in the Alcoran.