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al-Fawāʾid al-Bahiyya

الفوائد البهية

al-Laknawī اللكنوي

Abū al-Ḥasanāt Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī

Begun as an abridgement of al-Kafawī, rearranged alphabetically. Al-Laknawī's own additions, each introduced by 'the compiler says', outgrew the original. Finished in 1292/1875.

Draws on

• al-Kafawī, Katāʾib Aʿlām al-AkhyārBegun as an abridgement of al-Katāʾib.
• al-Tamīmī, al-Ṭabaqāt al-SaniyyaExtracts added.
• ʿAlī al-Qārī, al-Athmār al-JaniyyaExtracts added.

Used by

• al-Laknawī, Ṭarab al-AmāthilA supplement and completion.