AuthorMuḥammad bin ʻUmar bin Ibrāhīm al-milālī al-Tilimsānī al-Mālikī
DescriptionWritten as a commentary on the original text, Umm al-Barāhīn by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d. 1490), this work was composed by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Milālī, one of al-Sanūsī’s disciples. The manuscript then continues with a detailed explanation, spanning dozens of pages, of three categories: necessity, impossibility, and possibility. In this extensive section, the text systematically applies each category to propositions concerning the Divine, the cosmos, and human accountability. Necessity is defined as that which cannot fail to exist; impossibility, as that which cannot exist under any circumstance; and possibility, as that which depends on an external cause for its existence or non-existence. For researchers, this sustained treatment shows how foundational logic underpins theological arguments, providing a rigorous framework for distinguishing between what must be, cannot be, and may be in matters of creed. f. 24v outlines Adāb al-Dhikr.
Extentff. 25r-46r.
PlaceIslahul Uloom Arabic College, Kerala, India
YearCopied by Abūbakr bin Muḥammad on Thursday, 15 Dhu al-Ḥajj 1273/ 6 August 1857 (died in C.E. 1490)
CitationSharḥ Umm al-barāhīn, Muḥammad bin ʻUmar bin Ibrāhīm al-milālī al-Tilimsānī al-Mālikī , MAC65/CM6, iii, https://ari.nus.edu.sg/arabia-asia-archives/mac65-cm6-iii/
