🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

The joy of gatherings and the comfort of gatherings

بهجة المجالس وأنس المجالس

Author: أبو عمر يوسف بن عبد الله بن محمد بن عبد البر بن عاصم النمري القرطبي (المتوفى: 463هـ) (d. 463)

About this work

بهجة المجالس وأنس المجالس وشحذ الذاهن الهاجس (العنوان الكامل) كتابٌ أدبي موسوعي من تأليف الإمام أبي عمر يوسف بن عبد الله ابن عبد البر النمري القرطبي (ت 463هـ)، أحد علماء الأندلس في القرن الخامس الهجري، وواحد من المحدّثين والفقهاء المالكية.

Translation

The joy of gatherings, the comfort of gatherings, and the sharpening of the obsessive mind (full title) is an encyclopedic literary book written by Imam Abu Omar Yusuf bin Abdullah bin Abdul-Barr al-Nimri al-Qurtubi (d. 463 AH), one of the scholars of Andalusia in the fifth century AH, and one of the Maliki hadith scholars and jurists.

Topics covered

Author's introduction
Chapter: Sitting etiquette and the right of a good babysitter
Chapter: Praise of the tongue and the virtue of speech
Chapter on slandering and stuffing speech
A chapter on avoiding melody and learning parsing
Disparagement of the stranger in speech
Chapter on their different expressions of rhetoric
Chapter: Whoever proposes, I will agree to it
Chapter on praising silence and condemning logic
Chapter of double speech
A chapter of silent and well-intuitive answers
Chapter on literature
The door to comforting and alerting hearts
Chapter on what they say in describing living
And what the soul desires
Chapter on differences of interest regarding types of money
Trade section
The door to livelihood
The door to care and hope
The door to greed and despair
Chapter on slandering the question
Praise be to Him for what came without asking for help
The door to waiting for relief
Chapter on seriousness and limitation
Chapter on money, praise and blame

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