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Subject(s)

• Ramlī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1513-1596—Sharḥ al-Sittīn masʼalah [Browse]
• Zāhid, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad -1416—Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Banāwī, Muḥammad, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• بناوي، محمد، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 893H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Banhāwī, Ḥasan, active 18th century. Futūḥāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-mutqanah ʻalá sharḥ al-Sittīn masʼalah. [Browse]
• بنهاوي، حسن، active 18th century. فتوحات الاحمدية المتقنة على شرح الستين مسألة. [Browse]
• Ramlī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1513-1596. Sharḥ al-Sittīn masʼalah. [Browse]
• رملي، محمد بن احمد، 1513-1596. شرح الستين مسألة. [Browse]
• Mīhī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, -1789 or 1790. Mukaffirāt al-dhunūb. [Browse]
• ميهي، علي بن عمر، -1789 or 1790. مكفرات الذنوب. [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary by al-Ramlī on al-Zāhid's al-Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh, and al-Banhāwī's gloss on that commentary. Also contains the poem Mukaffirāt al-dhunūb.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Note that the text was read by Muḥammad Naṣr Allāh al-Miṣrī in Makkah in 1241.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 87 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25-29 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (fol. 1-14 and 42-87: three crescents; fol. 15-41: crest with a face-in-the-moon, three crescents) ; MS in fair condition; foxed. Very rare.
• Origin: [Hādhihi Ḥāshiyah] Copy completed Wednesday 9 Jumād[á] Akhir 1214 by Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī al-Khalafī[?] al-Banāwī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 68b) -- [Hādhā Sharḥ al-Sittīn masʼalah ] Copy completed Sunday 12 Rajab 1217 by Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī al-Khalafī al-Banāwī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 87b).
• Incipit: [هذه حاشية على شرح الستين] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين نحمدك اللهم على توفيقك ايانا لفهم قواعد ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير الذليل الي رحمة ربه الجليل راجي غفر ان ذنوب حسن البنهاوى ... -- [هذا شرح الستين مسالة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي ... اما بعد فهذا تعليق على المقدمة المعروفة بالستين مسيلة للشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ابي العباس احمد الزاهد ... -- [مكفرات الذنوب] يقول ميهي بصير القلب * على الراجى لعفو الرب * لله حمد غافر الذنوب * فضلا لمن بشا ساتر العيوب ...
• Colophon: [هذه حاشية] وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة يوم الاربع لتسع مضت من شهر جمادى الاخر الذي هو من شهور سنة 1214 الف ومائتين واربعة عشر. تم على يد الفقير الحقيرکثيرالذنوب والمساوي محمد الاحمدي الخلقي البناوي الشافعي عفي عنه -- [هذا شرح الستين مسالة] تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه عصر يوم الاحد المبارك لثمانية عشر يومًا مضت من شهور رجب الفرد الذي هو من شهور سنة 1217 على يد الفقير محمد الاحمدي الخلقي البناوي الشافعي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولکل من له فضل عليه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات آمين آمين

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Tan paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-68b: Hādhihi Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Sittīn masʼalah lil-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ramlī / lil-Shaykh Ḥasan al-Banhāwī. A gloss on al-Ramlī's commentary on al-Zāhid's al-Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh. Also called Futūḥāt al-Aḥmadīyah. It is stated in the original colophon that the work was composed in 1194/1780.
• 2. fol. 71a-87b: Hādhā Sharḥ al-Sittīn masʼalah bi-al-itmām wa-al-kamāl. Wa-hādhihi Mukaffirāt al-dhunūb / lil-Shaykh al-Mīhī. A commentary on al-Zāhid's al-Sittūn masʼalah fī al-fiqh, a collection of sixty propositions of Shāfiʻite law; with an ode in 18 verses by ʻAlī al-Mīhī on the title page.

Provenance

Ownership signature: ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Fārisī dated 1240 (fol. 1a); ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Fārisī dated 1239, Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī al-Khalafī al-Bināwī (fol. 71a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1827, 1826.
• Khulāṣat al-Athar III, pp. 343/4.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 245.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• [شرح] على الستين المسألة وحاشيتها
• Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Sittīn masʼalah.
• حاشية على شرح الستين مسألة.

Title on lower edge of text block

• [Sharḥ] ʻalá al-Sittīn al-masʼalah wa-ḥāshiyatihā

OCLC

1382580634

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