The manuscript contains a compilation of texts on the School of Imam Shafī‘ī.
Text 1: The text explains the names of ulama who followed the Islamic jurisprudence of the Shāfi‘ī School including the times of their births and deaths and their writings.
Text 2: The text is a thabat or the notes of a student about his teacher and the origins of his scholarship, in this case of Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Manṣūr al-Shanwānī from Al-Azhar in Egypt.
Text 3: The text deals with the short autobiography of Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Manṣūr al-Shanwānī when he was studying and obtained his licence to teach and pronounce fatwas from his teacher‘Uthmān al-Dimyāṭī ibn Ḥasan al-Dimyāṭī.
Colophon:
Text 2: Qad waqa‘a al-firāgh min naqlihā ḍaḥwah yawm al-ithnayn wa huwa yawm al-khāmis ‘ashr min al-thānī min al-thānī min al-rābi‘ ‘ashar min al-rābi‘ ‘ashar min hijrat man lahu al-‘azz wa ‘ām al-sharf ṣallallāhu ‘alayh wa sallam biqalam Muḥammad Sa‘d ibn Muḥammad Sulaymān
Text 3: WA qad wāfaqa taḥrīr ḥadhihi al-ijāzah al-mubārakah wa ākhir Sha‘bān al-mu‘aẓẓam qadrihi al-mujaddid dhakkahu alladhī huwa min shuhūr 1227 alf wa mi’atayn wa sab‘ah wa ‘ishrīn min hijrat sayyid al-kā’ināt ‘alayhi afḍal al-ṣalawāt wa atamm al-taslīmāt al-faqīr Muḥammad al-Shanwānī khādim al-‘ilm wa al-fiqr bi al-Azhar
Item 1 - Title in Native script:
[مصنفات أصحاب الشافعية]
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Muṣannafāt aṣḥāb al-Shāfi‘īyah
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Muṣannafāt aṣḥāb al-Shāfi‘īyah
Item 1 - Author:
‘Abd al-Ghaffar ibn Ibrāhīm al-‘Alawī al-Makkī al-‘Adnānī al-Shāfi‘ī
Item 1 - Language:
Arabic
Item 2 - Title in Native script:
الدرر السنية فيما علا من الأسانيد الشنوانية
Item 2 - Title in Roman script:
Al-Durar al-sanīyah fīmā ‘alā min al-asānīd al-Shanwānīyah
Item 2 - Title in English script:
Al-Durar al-sanīyah fīmā ‘alā min al-asānīd al-Shanwānīyah
Item 2 - Author:
Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Manṣūr al-Shanwānī
Item 2 - Language:
Arabic
Item 3 - Title in Native script:
الإجازة بالإفتاء والتدريس على مذهب الإمام الشافعي
Item 3 - Title in Roman script:
Al-Ijāzah bi al-iftā’ wa al-tadrīs ‘alā madhhab al-Imām al-Shāfi‘ī
Item 3 - Title in English script:
Al-Ijāzah bi al-iftā’ wa al-tadrīs ‘alā madhhab al-Imām al-Shāfi‘ī