Ghazalian Texts: Itḥāf al-sadāh al-muttaqīn
(sharḥ) of al-Iḥyāʾ exists by Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī’s [d.1791] Itḥāf al-sadāh al-muttaqīn bi sharḥ iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn. published by al-maṭbaʿ al-maymanya, near al-Azhar by the scholar and publisher: Aḥmad al-bābī al-Ḥalabī [Cairo]: 1311/1894 in 10 large volumes. According to author this book took 11 years to complete (10:572) on Sunday 5th of Jumada II, 1201 in his home in Cairo. The proofs of the printed edition was corrected by by Muhammad al-Zahari al-Ghamraui. (10:573). As addendum NYU and other US universities have embarked on book scanning project of Arabic language books and this book is one those that was scanned a copy that is housed at Columbia University, New York. Do note the library consortium has full color scans that come in two formats a high resolution and a low resolution. Volume 1 is here at this link.
Volume 1 (476 pp., 25 megabytes). a full color original print link
Volume 2 (432 pp., 21 megabytes) available in MS word . a full color original print link
Volume 3 (488 pp., 23 megabytes) available in MS word. a full color original print link
Volume 4 (560 pp., 27 megabytes). a full color original print link
Volume 5 (520 pp., 27 megabytes) available in MS word. a full color original print link
Volume 6 (576 pp., 30 megabytes) available in MS word. a full color original print link
Volume 7 (584 pp., 33 megabytes). a full color original print link
Volume 8 (636 pp., 36 megabytes) available in MS word. a full color original print link
Volume 9 (700 pp., 39 megabytes). a full color original print link
Volume 10 (575 pp., 33 megabytes). a full color original print link
Index to Itḥāf al-sadāh was published by the Beirut reprinter dar Iḥyā al-turath al-ʿArabī in 1995 in 3 volumes that were prepared by Riyāḍ ʿAbdullāh Abd al-hadī. (archive.org) Thanks to Khuram Hassan for altering me to this book on 4 November 2016.
volume 1 (23.7 megabytes)
volume 2 (26.3 megabytes)
volume 3 (25.6 megabytes)
Also available: al-Mughni ʿan ḥaml al-asfār fī al-asfār fī takhrīj mā fī al-iḥyāʾ min al-akhbār of al-Ḥafiz al-ʿIrāqī (d. 806/1404). This book is usually printed on the margins of the Iḥyāʾ but it is here printed in a book on its own with a complete index (very useful as it solves all of al-ʿIrāqī’s cross references):
3 in 1 volume (1279 pp., 14 megabytes)
Index (343 pp., 4 megabytes)
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It should be no secret to anyone who downloads Islamic texts from the internet the explosion of available texts. Here’s one such link that has versions of the iḥyāʾ and the Itḥāf.
