8vo. Volume I: 499 pp., / Volume II: [1, contents], 327 pp., [16, contents of volume I], Arabic lithographed text within border, modern hard back binding, few ink comments in margins, few wormholes affecting margins of the last few leaves of both volumes, Boulaq Printing, Cairo, 1283 A. H./ 1866.

Synopsis

Abdul Hadi b. Radwan Naja al-Abyari was an Egyptian writer known to have composed more than forty books. He was educated at al-Azhar and served at the palace of Khedive Isma’il as a teacher for his sons. This work is considered to be the most famous work he wrote together with Nayl al-Amani Sharh Muqadimat al-Qastalani and Al-Qasr al-Mabni al Hawashi al-Maghni.