Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon his last prophet, Mohammed. It must be emphasized that the title of the manuscript and its attribution to its author are fixed, as they were mentioned in his introduction, the classifier said: “The poorest of the servants to the Most Generous, the Creator, Abd al-Jawad Ibn Sheikh Ali al-Abyari… says I called this investigationas: The lovers' picnic of the oddities for the hankered.” We have investigated this manuscript according to the sections mentioned by the classifier, and we called this research (The lovers' picnic of the oddities for the hankered- section about what was mentioned of the wisdom in four wo), in which it was limited to the texts of wisdom that came to four words in the various sources of hadith books, and Arabic literature books, and there are some texts that we did not investigate them in what we found from different sources.Whosoever reads the title of the main manuscript, it comes to his mind at first glance that the material of this manuscript is love and infatuation, but in fact it is the opposite. As we find from the Hadith, sayings, proverbs and poems that have such directive advice which can be considered as a doctrine for those who want to achieve success on both lives- the earth and hereafter. As for the handwritten copy approved in the investigation, it is a single and unique copy in which was written by the classifier, illustrated by its original preserved at Princeton University, Yehuda Collection, No.: (4145), in the volume: (127b - 146b).However, the photocopy that we obtained from Juma Al Majid Center, was preserved at number: (375048), lacked accuracy in photography, and some of its words were blurred, which made our work more difficult.
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