ARABIC 6 A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF MANUSCRIPT “TAFSIR TALKHIS UD DURAR” OF ABDUL HAMEED AL-HAKIMI

تحقیق المخطوط لتفسیر تلخیص الدرر لعبدالحمید بن عبدالمجید الحاکمی المتوفی (514 هـ.ج)

Abstract

From the beginning of Islam to date, scholars interpreted the Holy Qurʾān, all over the world. They performed their responsibilities of explaining the Holy Qurʾān according to the circumstances. As a result, they left a massive heritage in the field of Tafsir. However, a large number of these books could not be published and vanished with the passage of time and a huge number of these scholarly works is available in two forms; published and manuscript. Libraries of Turkey, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Berlin, Leiden, and the Sub-continent, are proud to have antique manuscripts.  Tafsir Talkhis-ud-Durar of Allama Abdul Hameed Bin Abdul Majeed Al-Hakimi (514 A.H) is one of the notable manuscripts scholarships in the field of Tafsir. The manuscript is available in Noor-e-Usmania Library, Istanbul, Turkey, which is famous for the preservation of Islamic literature.

The manuscript of Tafsir Talkhis-ud-Durar exists in one volume of 425 Sheets each sheet contains two parallel pages. The language of the manuscript is Arabic, and the scribe’s style is Arabic Naskh, while the scribe used red color for Qurʾānic words and black for the interpretation. This corpus of Tafsir is a valuable treasure of the well-learned and prolific brain of Allama Abdul Hameed Bin Abdul Majeed Al-Hakimi. He not only interprets the text of the Holy Qurʾān literally but also tries to relate the Qurʾānic message to the contemporary problems of his era, ranging from the life of the individual to the broad spectrum of the collective sphere of life. We may consider it among early interpretations of the Holy Qurʾān, which are far away from sectarianism and focus on the message of the Holy Qurʾān and deal specifically with the social problems of the Muslim world.

Given its importance, the Department of Tafsir and Quranic Sciences at the Faculty of Usuluddin, Internationa Islamic University made it a research project to be edited by four Ph.D. students of the Department; the details are as follows:

1. Muhammad Esmaeel Haqani; from Sheet: 1 to 74 (Surah Al-Fatiha to Surah Al-Maida and the first part of the thesis containing an introduction of the manuscript and the author and the scribe and methodology of the author in detail.)
2. Nasrullah tends to edit the manuscript of this interpretation and divided it into fifteen chapters beginning from Surah al-An’am to the end of Surah Taha, (sheet no: 74 to 189 of the manuscript). The thesis also contains a brief preface holding basic information about the manuscript, the scribe, the author, and his methodology in his Tafsir.
3. Abdul Rahman tends to edit the manuscript of this interpretation beginning from Surah al-Anbia to the end of Surah Ghafir, (sheet no:189 to 306 of the manuscript). The thesis also contains a brief preface containing basic information about the manuscript, the scribe, the author, and his methodology in his Tafsir
4. Jawed Ahmed tends to edit the manuscript of this interpretation, as a research project in terms of editing, annotating, clarification, and critical analysis in the footnotes where necessary. The present thesis is from Sheet: 1 to 74 (Surah Al-Fatiha to Surah Al-Maida and the first part of the thesis contains the introduction of the manuscript and the author and the scribe and methodology of the author in detail.)