al-Mawahib al-Laduniyya ala al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya

Al-Mawahib al-Laduniyya ala al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya is the commentary of Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Bajuri (1198–1277 AH) on al-Tirmidhi's al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya. ¹ Abduh Kushak includes it in his list of commentaries on the Shama'il. ²

In his preface al-Bajuri says the Shama'il is "unique in its field, singular in its arrangement and coverage", that scholars who commented on it fell into some slips and errors, and that a friend asked him to write on it "a selection from the commentators". ³ The commentary opens, as commentators customarily do, with a discussion of the basmala and the praise of God, citing hadiths, reports and anecdotes. ^{4 5}

Muhammad Awwama notes that the printed commentaries on the Shama'il include those of al-Suyuti, Ali al-Qari, al-Munawi, Qasim Jassus and al-Bajuri, and that al-Bajuri, the last of them to die, could select from his predecessors, so that his commentary is "easy and revised, precise and clear". ⁶ He describes the author as shaykh of al-Azhar and one of the best-known later Shafi'i jurists. ⁶ He records that the commentary was printed several times, including by the Istiqama press in Egypt in 1353 AH, and that he added brief notes correcting points of hadith — most of them, he says, errors al-Bajuri took over from Ali al-Qari and al-Munawi — and inserted words in square brackets where the sense required. ⁷ Awwama signed his introduction in Medina on 27 Dhu al-Qa'da 1421. ⁷