The library of al-Māwardī

1. Ḥadīth Muhammad 14 authority 14 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   the author's introduction · ch. 2 · ch. 3 · section: on caution · ch. 9 · section: on rights

   14 citations

   “When God the Exalted wills to carry through His decree and His destiny, He strips the possessors of intellects of their intellects until His decree and His destiny are carried through upon them.

2. (maxim) ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Yaḥyā 11 authority 11 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   section: on caution · ch. 9 · ch. 11 · section: on rights

   11 citations

   everything has its kernel (lubāb), and the kernel of souls is the intellects (al-albāb)

3. (verse) the poets (baʻḍ al-shuʻarāʼ) 9 authority 9 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   section: on caution · section: on rights

   9 citations

   You will find what you sent ahead of good brought present before you — and you are the happier for the good you do

4. Qurʼān God 4 authority · 1 neutral 5 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   ch. 2 · ch. 3 · section: on caution · ch. 6 · ch. 13

   5 citations

   do not squander your portion in it, and do not forget your share of it, and do good as God has done good to you.

5. Sayings of Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib 3 authority · 1 endorsed 4 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   the author's introduction · ch. 3 · section: on dismissal · ch. 13

   4 citations

   I was put in charge of the library of al-Rashīd's books, and I went through his books, and I found not a saying but that I found its contrary — except sayings that came from the philosopher of the Arabs (*fayāsūf al-ʻArab*), ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may God Most High be pleased with him:

6. Sayings of the sages The sages 2 authority · 2 endorsed 4 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   the author's introduction · ch. 2 · ch. 3 · section: boldness · ch. 6 · section: on dismissal

   4 citations

   The promise is the sickness of a favour, fulfilment is its recovery, and putting off is its death.

7. Sayings of Buzurjmihr Buzurjmihr 2 authority · 1 endorsed 3 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   the author's introduction · section: boldness · ch. 13

   3 citations

   Jest is the blight of seriousness, lying is the enemy of truthfulness, and injustice is the ruin of kingship.

8. Sayings of the sage of India The sage of India 1 authority · 2 endorsed 3 citations

   Adab al-wazīr

   the author's introduction · ch. 2 · section: boldness

   3 citations

   Rancours leave their mark wherever they are, and the most to be feared of them is what is in the souls of kings, for they hold revenge a matter of religion and reckon the pursuit of a blood-claim a nobility and a glory.

9. Adab al-wazīr al-Māwardī 1 extended 1 citation

   Adab al-wazīr

   ch. 2

   1 citation

   Now that these sections upon the preliminaries of the vizierate (wizārah) have been set down, its name is derived from its meaning;

10. Plato 1 endorsed 1 citation

    Adab al-wazīr

    ch. 2

    1 citation

    The first discipline of the vizier is that he consider closely the king's character and his dealing:

11. al-Māwardī 1 extended 1 citation

    Adab al-wazīr

    ch. 11

    1 citation

    This, then, is what belongs properly to the canons of the vizierate of execution (*wizārat al-tanfīdh*), after what we have already set out of the canons of the vizierate of delegation.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Adab al-wazīr

(proverbial saying) ¶ · (sapiential maxims) · Anonymous proverbial maxims · Anonymous transmitted maxims · Arabic poetry ¶ · Letter of the sage of the Greeks to Alexander · Manthur al-hikam · Manthūr al-ḥikam (also spelled Manshūr al-ḥikam) · Proverbs of the Arabs · Sayings of Solomon · Sayings of the forebears · Sayings of the sage of the Persians · Sayings of ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd · Sayings of ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb · Verses of Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi · (Arab proverb) · (books and scriptures of the Children of Israel) · (books of the Children of Israel) · (maxims of the Persians) · (royal injunction to his son) · (royal reply and maxim) · (royal testament to Hurmuz) · (sapiential tradition) · (saying of Jesus to his disciples) · (verse, said to be a current proverb) · Admonition of Luqman to his son · Amthal al-hikam · Ancient wisdom · Anonymous maxims introduced by 'it has been said' (qad qīla) · Anonymous verse · Anonymous verse introduced by 'and the poet said' · Dialogue of the king of India with Alexander · Hadith against mutual wrangling · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (God never entrusted intellect to anyone but that He rescued him by it) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (I am surety, for the man who throws himself upon this world, of a poverty with no wealth) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (be good neighbours to God's blessings), on the authority of Anas ibn Mālik · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (every runner has a goal, and the goal of every runner is death) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (fear the prayer of the wronged man), with the family isnād of Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (great blessing brings great burden of men), related by ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (he who goes slowly hits the mark) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (no solitude more desolate than conceit) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (no support more trustworthy than taking counsel; seek guidance of the man of intellect), the second on the authority of Abū al-Dardāʼ · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (preferring what abides; God's pleasure against men's displeasure) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (seek help toward your needs by keeping them secret), with the isnād ʻAṭāʼ–ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (the Hour drawn near and men's growing greed) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (the most beloved and most hateful to God), with the isnād Maʻmar–Khallād–his father · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (whoever longs for the Garden hastens to good works) · Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad on the portents of the Hour, with the isnād ʻAbdallāh ibn ʻUbayd–ʻUmayr al-Laythī–Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān · Hadith on being a stranger in this world · Hadith on pardoning the wrongdoer · Hadith on security and safety · Hadith on the hidden stores of the earth · Hadith on the profligate man · Hadith on the shepherd answerable for his flock · Hadith on usefulness to people · Hadith that war is deception · Hadith transmitted through Ibn Umar · Kalīlah wa-Dimnah · Letter of Alexander's teacher on the selection of officials · Letter of Khusraw Parvīz to Shīrūyah · Letter of al-Ma'mun to his governor of Khurasan · Manshūr al-ḥikam (the scroll of wise sayings) · Positions on the derivation of wizārah · Report of ʻAmr ibn Murrah on ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb · Saying of one of the eloquent on men and offices · Sayings of Abū al-Dardāʼ · Sayings of Aktham ibn Ṣayfī · Sayings of Ardashir I · Sayings of Hudhayfah · Sayings of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman · Sayings of Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ · Sayings of Ibn ʻAbbās · Sayings of Jesus · Sayings of Khosrow II · Sayings of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz · Sayings of Wahb ibn Munabbih · Sayings of al-Aḥnaf ibn Qays · Sayings of al-Hasan ibn Sahl · Sayings of al-Muntasir · Sayings of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī · Sayings of the ancients ¶ · Sayings of the kings of the Persians · Sayings of the masters of eloquence · Sayings of the sages of the Arabs · Sayings of Ḥimyar the king · Scriptures of the Children of Israel · Scroll of Maxims · Solomon's book of wisdom · The admonition of Ubayd Allah al-Anbari to al-Ma'mun · The admonition of ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān to Rawḥ ibn Zinbāʻ · The ancient wise sayings (al-ḥikam al-qadīmah) · The covenant of Bahrām Gūr to the kings of Persia · The earlier scriptures (al-kutub al-ūlā) · The first scriptures · The inscription on Solomon's throne · The law of divorce · The letter of the sage of al-Rūm to Alexander · The saying of Yaḥyā ibn Khālid ibn Barmak · The saying of ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz to his son · The sayings of the masters of eloquence (al-bulaghāʼ) · The sayings of the sages of al-Rūm · The sayings of unnamed sages (baʻḍ al-ḥukamāʼ) · The wise sayings and proverbs of al-Hind (India) · The wise sayings of the Persians (al-Furs) · The wise sayings of the house of Dāwūd · Verse of ʻAmr ibn al-Ahtam · Verses of Abū Bakr ibn Durayd · Verses of Ibn al-Rūmī · Verses of Maḥmūd al-Warrāq · Verses of al-Nābighah al-Jaʻdī · Verses of ʻAlī ibn al-Jahm · Verses recited by ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb · al-Jāḥiẓ's report on the library of al-Rashīd · al-ṣuḥuf al-ūlā (the earliest scriptures) · kitāb al-mulūk (the Book of Kings) · the books of the Persians · the wisdom of the house of David

3 works in the library quote al-Māwardī — 7 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through al-Māwardī 6 citations · Adab al-wazīr 1 citation

Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 4 citations · al-Māwardī 2 citations · al-Dhahabī 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of al-Māwardī is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 2 authority · 2 neutral 4 citations · 6 passages

   ch. 3 · ch. 4 2 passages anchored here · ch. 5 3 passages anchored here

   He is invoked by name in the programme of the second aim.

   (As for *the second aim*) it is on the views of the philosophers of Islam concerning the jinn:

2. Adab al-wazīr al-Māwardī 2 extended 2 citations

   ch. 2 · ch. 11

   The text refers back explicitly to its own earlier treatment as the completed half of the argument.

   This, then, is what belongs properly to the canons of the vizierate of execution (*wizārat al-tanfīdh*), after what we have already set out of the canons of the vizierate of delegation.

3. Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab al-Dhahabī 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 13

   A named exegete is adduced as the authority for a specific reading used to refute the author's exclusion of arithmetic.

   [28] (1) It is as though he were letting himself forget what has been said concerning the words of God Most High, reported of Joseph, peace be upon him, “I am a trusty keeper, knowing” — that is, a keeper of tongues, knowing the science of arithmetic, as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī and others have mentioned.