Editions of the al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya

There are many many editions of Nasafi’s creed (al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya) in circulation for as soon as it was released it was widely circulated therefore a discussion of the many published editions of this work is in order. . This work continued to be popular into the modern period even as soon as Modern Arabic printing using moveable metal type started this was one of the early printed texts where in 1843 the Rev. Curton published it. As we mentioned elsewhere it was commented on by many authors. The most popular and widely circulated commentary is by Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī simply titled Sharḥ al-ʿaqāʾida al-Nasafiyya (commentary on Nasafi’s creed)

Manuscripts:

Manuscript: Sharḥ al-ʿaqaʾid li-Saʿd al-Taftāzānī (Sunday, 21 rajab, 1096/24 June 1685) written by Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Shuayb al-Shāfiʿī. PDF

Manuscript: ʿUmar al-Nasafī, al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, from McGill University collection Arabic 181Purchased by Ivanow in Lucknow, 1927. PDF

Printed Editions:

Najm al-Dīn al-Nasafī, ʿAqāʾid, second creed in William Cureton (ed.), Pillar of the creed of the Sunnites (London 1843). PDF and PDF.

An early printed version perhaps the first Muslim print on record is the ʿĀmira Press at the Astana (Istanbul) 1308/1891. PDF

Another printed edition from Turkey printed in 1320/1902 with the super commentaries (ḥāshiya) of Ramadan Effendi. PDF

Another printed edition from Turkey (reprinted in Baghdad by offset printing) the original printed in 1326/1908 with three super commentaries (ḥāshiya) of Muṣliḥ al-dīn Muṣṭafā al-Kastali (d. 901/1496) Aḥmad b. Mūsā al-Khayyāli (d. 860/1456) and Ramadan (Effendi) al-bahshatī (d. 979/1571) PDF

Halabi’s edition no date with Aḥmad b. Mūsā al-Khayyāli’s (d. 860/1456) ḥāshiya and al-ʿIṣām’s sharaḥ PDF

A few modern editions:

Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqāʾida al-Nasafiyya, ed. Aḥmad Ḥijāzī al-Saqqā, Maktabat al-Kuliyyāt al-Azhariyya, Cairo 1988. PDF.

Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. Muṣṭafā Marzūqī, Dār al-Huda, ʿAīn Malīla, Algeria 2000. PDF.

Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, with margins by Mawlana Muḥammad ʿAlī, Maktabat al-Bushra, Karachi 2009. PDF.

Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, with margins by Ṣadr al-wari al-Qādrī al-Miṣbaḥī, Maktabat al-Madina, Karachi 2012. PDF.

Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. ʿAlī Kamāl, Dār Iḥayaʾ al-turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut 2014. PDF. Note this edition has the Hadith verification of Mulla ʿAlī Qārī in the margins.

ʿUmar al-Nasafī, al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. ʿAlī Kamāl, Dār al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyya, Beirut 1993. PDF

English translations:

A Commentary one the Creed of Islam, E. E. Elder, Columbia University Press, New York, 1950. (translation of Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-NasafiyyaPDF

Second translation Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya -trans. Mufti Muhammad Huzaifah ibn Adam aal-Ebrahim, Nidaa-ul-Haqq Publication, n.p. 2018. PDF

Home grown translations (PDF)

Other Language translations:

Urdu:ʿUmar al-Nasafī, al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, translated by. Ghulam Ḥussaīn, 2015 Karachi? Pakistan PDF

Persian:ʿUmar al-Nasafī, al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, translated by. Muḥamad ʿUmar Joya, Biynat.org PDF

Malay: See Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas study of it: The oldest known Malay manuscript a 16th century Malay translation of the ʻAqā’id of Al-Nasafī, Kuala Lumpur Dep. of Publ., Univ. of Malaya 1988.

German: Die Glaubenssätze des Imām al-Nasafī Al-ʻAqā’id al-Nasafiyya, Hellenthal Warda Publikationen Wentzel 2017. and Türkischer Catechismus der Muhammedanischen Religion, Hamburg Leipzig 1792,  PDF