1856.] Alfred von Kremer's edition of Wakidy. 57 



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 jj| ) &Lff «^^j| gjjjj ^(Wf liua*; ^ [ ( ^Wl ) er-^l ^J ^L* 



&c|tjjl ^j <^a>| ^ «XJJ| <*xc ^J d+zz* Xjg f^i\ ^yo 4x*«j 6V) &-L* Jj^J| 



To understand the above, it is necessary that the reader should 

 know that the standard copy of Ibn Sa'd — that written by Ibn 

 ifayyuyah,* was divided into eight parts, and that at the end of every 

 part, the teachers and pupils who read it, wrote their sama.' Hakkary 

 transcribed the more important Sama's into his copy and attached to 

 every one his signature. This is the technical meaning of &**£ if 

 it stands at the end of a document. We also find at the end of 

 some documents &**J\ before the name of a witness, and this word 

 is therefore also used for " witness" or " signature." 



The sama' quoted above was written in the hand of the celebrated 

 iZafitz Dimyaty, and it referred to the second part of the original. 

 It appears from it that that part was read alternately by al-IZasan al- 

 Jawhary, mentioned above, and his brother al-iZbsayn (and as we 

 learn from other sama's also all other parts of the book were read by 

 them) before Ibn iZayyiiyah. Subsequently in 447 the book was read 

 before iZasan Jawhary by the Khatfyb Abu Bakr in the presence of 

 six pupils, none of whom is of any interest, and in 448 it was read 

 under his (Jawhary's) superintendence partly by the same Kha^yb 

 Abu Bakr and partly by 'Abd Allah Qarawany, and it was on this 

 occasion that Ibn 'Abd al-Baqiy Bazzaz who has been mentioned 

 above was present. Under the superintendence of Ibn' Abd al- 

 Baqiy [Bazzaz] who taught the book in the version of Jawhary, it 



l$Jf f &A.y.Sbo c^ Nur alnibras, p. 1988. 



