رسالة د. كهلان الخروصي

… Like E، this copy is part of a mixed content manuscript. Although the photocopy of >th~r al-Rab‚` b. ™ab‚b is the only part I have of this manuscript، the first and last pages of the photocopy contain information that shows that the content of the whole manuscript is similar to that of E as the passages immediately preceding and following our text indicate. Yet from the preceding passage، the scribe of T1 seems to be following a different order from that of E; he stops at the end of part seven of Qawl Qat~da and says that some scribes attach the book of ™ab‚b b. Ab‚ ™ab‚b to it and do not end the work of Qawl Qat~da until they have completed transcribing Kit~b ™ab‚b b. Ab‚ ™ab‚b،⁽¹⁾ which is exactly what the copyist of E did. Does this mean that E was the exemplar of T1? From the recorded date of T1، it is obvious that it is later than E: the scribe، whose name is ^~liˆ b. S~lim b. Sulaym~n b. Yadar al-Sadr~t‚، reported that he finished transcribing the book on Monday the twenty-third of Shaww~l of 1191 H/the twenty-fourth of November 1777.⁽²⁾ It is also important to point out that T1 has six additional traditions that are not extant in E، and two other traditions are missing from T1 but are in E. There are four places at least where there is haplography in E،⁽³⁾ but the full version is preserved in T1.