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Subject(s)

• Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah [Browse]
• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah [Browse]
• Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by the author's grandfather, Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī (d. 1274 or 5). As for the work itself, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah is an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 7a.
• 25 lines per page. Written in a medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each folio. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink and foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Glazed paper with visible laid lines. Ff. 10b-11a have a table of contents in black and red ink. Fol. 2a has another table of contents, and there are various short texts and inscriptions from fol. 3a to 10a and on fol. 178a-b, all in later hands, chiefly in Arabic with one (a duʻāʼ) in Ottoman. Extensive marginal annotations throughout.
• Incipit: يقول العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة ... هذا حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية فى مسائل الهداية
• Explicit: ومع ذلك يباح التناول اعتمادا على الغالب والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمأب

Binding note

Brown leather with envelope flap with blind stamped central mandorlas on upper and lower covers and the flap. Blind fillets around the borders of covers and of the envelope flap. Spine and cover edges partially repaired with different brown leather. Lining to the envelope flap and pastedowns in cream paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1026
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 468 (I, cmt. a)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 646

Other format(s)

Microfilm available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah
• صدر الشريعة
• Kitāb Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah
• كتاب صدر الشريعة
• Ḥall al-mawāḍiʻ al-mughlaqah min Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah
• حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية

OCLC

1340396326

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