AL-SINDI, Rahmatullah, & Ahmed Ziyauddin Efendi, known as Gümüshânevî or Kumushkhanawi.

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Majami' al-manasik fi nask al-hajj wa-fada'il al-Haramayn wa-al-Quds wa-al-hajjaj wa-al-majawir 'alá al-tafsil. Rare first edition, combining two important and complementary texts which outline the rites of hajj and umrah, with descriptions of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem; an online institutional search locates five copies only: Library of Congress, Stanford, Ohio State, Utah, and University of Basel; included is the first printed edition of Majmu'at al-manasik by the eminent 16th century Hanafi scholar Rahmatullah al-Sindi. Rahmatullah al-Sindi (d. 993 H/ 1585 CE) was, as his name implies, born in Sind (in modern day Pakistan). As a young man he fled with his father to Hejaz, "frequently the destination for Sindhi scholars fleeing imperial unrest" (Baig, p. 63). Having completed his studies at Mecca under the Indian Sunni scholar al-Muttaqi, he proceeded to Medina, where he lectured in hadith literature. In 1574 he travelled to India, accompanying Haji Begu, empress consort of the Mughal emperor Humayun, who had just completed the hajj. He visited Agra and read hadith with the distinguished historian and translator 'Abd al-Qadir Badayuni, before teaching at Ahmadabad. Returning to Hejaz he "contributed to a new generation of Hanafi scholarship that was steeped in the hadith sciences and was intimately connected to political and intellectual developments in South Asia … The vast oeuvre of Rahmatullah al-Sindi's work was on 'ilm al-manasik, the discipline of the rites of pilg

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