The sources of al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq

1. Aristotle 1 authority · 2 neutral · 13 endorsed 16 citations · 9 passages

   the book of happiness 9 passages anchored here

   Logic is invoked by name as a body of established doctrine warranting the author's moves.

   As for the kinds of wretchedness that stand opposite these happinesses, we have left off mentioning them, because they are known from their opposites, as is shown in logic, that the knowledge of opposites comes together in a single state.

2. Qurʼān God 7 authority 7 citations · 8 passages

   the publisher's introduction 4 passages anchored here · ch. 2 · ch. 5 3 passages anchored here

   Both verses are introduced by divine-speech formulae and set in parentheses as quotations.

   who has forbidden the adornment of God, which He has brought forth for His servants, and the good things of provision?

3. Miskawayh 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   the publisher's introduction · the book of happiness

   The book is named with its author and recommended as unequalled, with a condition about the reader's earnestness.

   And we have seen none who set it out and gave it its full due like the Book of Happiness (Kitāb al-Saʻādah) of the moral philosopher Abū ʻAlī ibn Miskawayh;

4. Economics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   the book of happiness 2 passages anchored here

   The work is named as one of the practical books and its absence from Arabic is reported.

   As for his books on the governance of the household and of cities, nothing has been translated into Arabic except what has been found of his book on the governance of cities, which is our discourse, and I have mentioned it in the catalogue of his books.

5. Galen 1 authority 1 citation

   the book of happiness

   The work is named explicitly and referred the reader to as the fuller proof of the claim being made.

   Whoever looks into the book On the Uses of the Parts will come upon a great wisdom and will see clearly much of what I have merely gestured at in this place.

6. Metaphysics Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation

   the book of happiness

   The work is identified by its lettered titles and its partial translation is reported.

   Then he made, on what is after nature, his books upon which he inscribed the letters, those known as the Alif, the Bāʼ and what comes after them;

7. Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation · 4 passages

   the book of happiness 4 passages anchored here

   Aristotle's ethical book is named and relied upon in four separated paragraphs.

   As for what is proper to man in his own essence, that is his book on ethics, a very great book of many benefits, which teaches how a man acquires an excellent endowment and a praiseworthy disposition from which fine acts and well-pleasing works issue.

8. Poetics Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation · 3 passages

   the book of happiness 3 passages anchored here

   The work is named under both its Arabic description and its transliterated Greek title.

   And he made eighth a book in which he mentioned the canons of the expressions that work upon the imagination, and numbered all by which this art is completed, and divided it into its species and its kinds, and named it Fūrīṭīqā, that is, Poetry — so that this art might be completed according to these divisions.

9. Politics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   the book of happiness 2 passages anchored here

   The work is named twice, once systematically and once bibliographically.

   As for his books on the governance of the household and of cities, nothing has been translated into Arabic except what has been found of his book on the governance of cities, which is our discourse, and I have mentioned it in the catalogue of his books.

10. Rhetoric Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation · 3 passages

    the book of happiness 3 passages anchored here

    The work is named in Arabic and in transliterated Greek and given its place and practitioner.

    As for that whose falsity is equal to its truth, it is that by which some persuasion is sought in whatever opinion it may be, and that the hearer should come to rest in what is said to him and give it some measure of credence, which falls short of strong presumption.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

the publisher's introduction 23 sources

Anonymous verse on deferring to the adept and to those who saw the new moon · Anonymous verse on laundered clothes and the rotten egg · Anonymous verse on learning wasted among beasts · Anonymous verse on nothing remaining of these people but their shapes · Anonymous verse on soft bodies and burrs in the breast · Anonymous verse on talk of knowledge against talk of fish and greens · Anonymous verse on the fine attire of the brought-low and the shroud · Anonymous verse on the intellect as prince over caprice · Anonymous verse on the wolf's howl and the human voice · Hadith commanding to take on the character of God · Hadith on Adam created upon the form of the Merciful · Hadith on God loving the clean devotee · Hadith on God loving to see the trace of His favour on His servant · Hadith on cleanliness as part of faith · Hadith on honouring the hair · Hadith on the believers as a single body · Hadith on the servant whose garment is better than his deed · Hadith on women, perfume and prayer · Verses of Diʻbil al-Khuzāʻī on the multitude in which no one is seen · Verses of al-Mubarrad on saddlecloths and natures · Verses of al-Shāfiʻī on the garment and the soul · al-Kāmil · al-Sīrah al-Muḥammadīyah

ch. 3 2 sources

Anonymous verse on weeping for a squandered lifetime · Kitāb al-Ishārah, part on the divine things, eighth section

ch. 4 28 sources

Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif · Fatāwā of Ibn Ḥajar · Kitāb al-Rūḥ · Qurʼān, the verse on the question about the spirit · Qurʼān, the verse that God takes the souls at their death · al-Asfār al-Arbaʻah · al-Bannānī's gloss on Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ · al-Durar al-Muntatharah · al-Kulliyyāt · the Book and the Sunnah and the consensus of the Companions · the Muʻtazilī doctrine that spirit and intellect are accidents · the approval of the luminous-body doctrine · the commentary on al-Bukhārī · the doctrine of Ibn Ḥazm on the spirit's pre-bodily interworld · the doctrine of the people of the Sunnah and the community on spirit and intellect · the doctrine of the people of tradition on the distinctness of soul and spirit · the findings of al-Ālūsī and others · the outward sense of the Book and the words of the Infallible · the physicians' definition of the spirit · the position of Ibn Ḥabīb that spirit and soul are two things · the reading of al-Aʻmash on the transmission of Ibn Masʻūd · the report of most of the scholars that spirit and soul are one · the report that God created the spirits two thousand years before the bodies · the report transmitted by al-Bazzār from Abū Hurayrah on the believer's death · the saying that whoever knows his soul knows his Lord · the statement of Ibn al-ʻArabī on soul and spirit · the ʻayniyyah · Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bālighah

ch. 5 3 sources

Doctrine of the metempsychosists on animal pain · The philosopher's term for the animal spirit · Unattributed source on the providential role of pain

ch. 6 4 sources

The Law and religion · The speech of him who does not speak out of caprice · Verse on self-praise and deeds · Verse on the student of history remembered in history

the book of happiness 5 sources

Books of the sages on the leading of men to happiness · Letter of Būlus to Anūshirwān · Proverbial saying that men are enemies of what they do not know · Teaching of Aristotle's associates on the order of study · The revealed laws