seventy a hyperbole
i don't think imam riDa meant 'seventy' literally. it is a hyperbole to mean that none of the commentaries mention what the questioner has asked. it would sound naive to say that there are 70 commentaries of sharH al-`aqâyid and one has read them all. or probably a copy error might make seventeen to seventy. [satrah to sattar]
Allâh knows best.
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Imām Nasafī - Najmuddīn Abū Ĥafş Úmar ibn Muĥammad an-Nasafī (d.538 AH) wrote a booklet named Al-Áqāyid explaining the creed of ahlus sunnah (as explained by the maturidi scholars) which is famously known as Al-Áqāyid an-Nasafiyyah.
Imām Saáduddīn Masúūd ibn Úmar at-Taftāzānī (d.791 AH) wrote a commentary on this, which is known as Sharĥ al-Áqāyid. Imām Taftāzāni is among the high masters of this science: the usūl. His magnum opus is Sharĥ al-Maqāşid, regarding which Shaykh Khuđari Beg is reported to have said:
sharĥ al-maqāşidi mā fī al-fanni masálatin
min al-masāyil illā wa huwa ĥāwīhā
fann al-kalāmī baĥrun wa huwā lujjatuhū
yā ayyuha’l baĥru lā tuĥsā la-ālīhā
sharĥ al-maqāşid is the book in which, there is no topic
from the subject (of kalām) that it doesn’t cover.
the science of kalām is an ocean, and this is its bank;
O the ocean, there is no limit to the pearls it contains.
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Other known ĥawāshī, commentaries and marginalias on Imam Taftāzānī’s commentary as listed in Kashf az-Žunūn:
Al-Mawlā Ramađān ibn Muĥammad in two volumes known as Al-Ĥāshiyatu Ramađān Āfandī.
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Muĥammad ibn al-Ghars al-Ĥanafī (d.932 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Aĥmed ibn Mūsā better known as Al-Khayālī (d.862 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of ibn Abi’sh Sharīf al-Qudsī (d.903 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of al-Mawlā Muşliĥuddīn Muşţafā al-Qasţallānī (d.901 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of Şāliĥuddin
Ĥāshiyah of al-Mawlā Álāuddīn Álī ibn Muĥammad (d.871)
Ĥāshiyah of al-Mawlā Muĥammad ibn Mānyās (a scholar in the court of Sultan Murād ibn Sultan Muĥammad Khān)
Ĥāshiyah of Şalāĥuddīn, the teacher of Sultan Bāyazīd ibn Muĥammad Khān.
Ĥāshiyah of Állāmah Íşāmuddīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muĥammad ibn Arab-Shāh al-Isfarāyni (d.945 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of al-Mawlā Ilyās ibn Ibrāhīm as-Sīnānī
Ĥāshiyah of al-Mawlā Muĥammad ibn Íwađ
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Aĥmed ibn Ábdullāh al-Quraymī (d.943 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Kamāluddīn Ismāýīl al-Qirmānī; this being a marginalia on Al-Khayāli’s supercommentary mentioned earlier.
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Muĥiyuddin Muĥammad - a teacher of Sultan Bāyazid.
Ĥāshiyah of Sinānuddīn Yūsuf al-Ĥamīdī (d.912 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Álāuddīn Áli al-Árabī (d.901 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of Luţfullāh ibn Ilyās ar-Rūmī (d.930 AH); this being a marginalia on al-Khayālī’s supercommentary.
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Khiđr Shah ar-Rūmī al-Minshāwī (d.853 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Muĥiyyudin Muĥammad ibn Ibrāhīm an-Niksārī (901 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of al-Qāđī Shihābuddīn Aĥmed ibn Yūsuf al-Ĥaşnakīfī as-Sanadī (d.895 AH) and he named it: Tuĥfatul Fawāyid li Sharĥ al-Áqāyid.
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Ĥakīm Shāh Muĥammad ibn Mubārak al-Qazwīnī (d. around 920 AH)
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Ramađān ibn Ábd al-Muĥsin known as al-Bihishti (d.979 AH); this being a marginalia on Al-Khayālī’s supercommentary.
Ĥāshiyah of Shaykh Muĥammad ibn qĀsim al-Ghazzī al-Shafiýī ibn Ázzābīlī (d.917 AH); this being a marginalia on Al-Khayālī’s supercommentary.
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Other ĥawāshī on both Sharĥ al-Áqāyid and its supercommentary by Al-Khayālī are:
Shaykh Ĥasan ibn Ĥusayn ibn Muĥammad, an egyptian school teacher.
Shaykh Ismāýīl ibn Bālī
Shaykh Muĥammad al-Maráshī known As-Sāqilī-Zādah (d.1150 AH)
Shaykh Khwājah-Zādah
Shaykh Ĥasan al-Libbī ibn al-Fannārī
Shaykh Ízzuddīn Muĥammad ibn Abū Bakr ibn Jamāáh (d.819 AH)
Mansūr aţ-Ţablāwī al-Shāfiýī: Maţlaá Budūr al-Fawāyid wa Manbaá Jawāhir al-Farāyid wherein he mentions the marginalias of: As-Subkī (not likely the Shāfiýī Imams, father and son), Ibn al-Árs, Al-Ghazzī, Al-Biqāýī, Shaykh al-Islām Zakariyyah al-Anşārī, Shaykh Nāşiruddīn al-Laqāni, Shaykh Badruddin al-Fayyūmī and his student Nūruddīn al-Bukhārī.
Shaykh Aĥmed al-Barādaýī
Ibrāhīm al-Laqānī al-Mişrī (d.1041 AH) and named it: Taálīq al-Farāyid álā Sharĥ al-Áqāyid.
Mullā Ábdu’l Ĥakīm ibn Shamsuddīn Siyālkūţī al-Hindī (d.1067 AH)
Állāmah Muĥammad ibn Ĥamzah ad-Dabbāgh known as Tafsīrī Afandī (d.1111 AH)
Shaykh as-Sayyid Muĥammad ibn Ĥamīd al-Kafawī
Shaykh Ábdullah ibn Muĥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Muqrī (d.1167 AH)
Shaykh Shihābuddīn Aĥmed al-Áynī
Shaykh Muĥammad ibn Aĥmed ibn Álī al-Buhūtī
Shaykh Burhānuddīn Ibrāhīm ibn Úmar al-Biqāýī (d.885 AH)
Shaykh Shamsuddīn Maĥmūd ibn Aĥmed al-Işfahāni (d.749 AH)
Shaykh Jamāluddīn Maĥmūd ibn Aĥmed ibn masúūd al-Qawnawī al-Ĥanafī known as Ibn as-Sirāj (d.770 AH)
Imām Shamsuddīn Abū Ábdullāh Muĥammad ibn Shaykh Zaynuddīn Abu’l Ádl Qāsim ađ-Đāfiýī
Ibn Ĥazm al-Andalūsi (it might NOT be Ibn Ĥazm Al-Žāhirī because his time is prior to Imām Nasafī; Ibn Ĥazm died in 465 AH)
Shaykh Badruddīn Muĥammad ibn Muĥammad ibn Khaţīb (d.893 AH)
Mullāzādah Aĥmed ibn Úthmān al-Hirawī al-Khayrziyāni (d.900 AH) and he named it: Ĥall al-Máāqid fi Sharĥ al-Áqāýid
Shaykh Áli ibn Aĥmed an-Najjāri which he named: Farāyid al-Qalāyid wa Ghurar al-Fawāyid
Al-Qāđi Úmar ibn Muşţafā Karāmah at-Ţarābilsī rewrote the aqayid in verse in the year 1126 AH.
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