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Subject(s)

• Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1181-1252—Mashāriq al-anwār al-nabawīyah [Browse]
• صغاني، الحسن بن محمد—مشارق الانوار النبوية [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Mashāriq al-anwār al-nabawīyah, a collection of ḥadīths by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghānī (d. 650/1252).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon of Juzʼ 1 (fol. 197b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيد المرسلين محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين قال الشيخ الامام العلامة احد دهره وفريد عصره ملك المحدثين رضي الملة والدين ابو الفضايل الحسن بن محمد بن الحسن الصغانى ... الحمد لله محيي الرحم ومجري القلم وذاري الامم وباري النسم ليعبدوه ولا يشركوا به قال العبد الفقير محمد بن محمود بن احمد غفر الله له وان اللام ببتعريف والتعريف باللام
• Explicit: افضل هو اللايق لمرتبته صلى الله عليه وسلّم ان يترقي من الادني الي الاعلي لا ان يتنزل من الاعلي الي الادني والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب تمّ
• Physical description: 33 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two lines in red ink on fol. 3b-4a. Cream paper, glossy, with thick laid lines, chain lines, and fibers visible. Fol. 1 and 417 are endpapers, with one side marbled in green, orange, yellow and blue. Fol. 2 is a later added endpaper (European paper). Fol. 3 consists of a sheet of the same paper with an original fol. pasted on its verso.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 417 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, at the beginning of the quire ; + 2, endpapers) 2-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-41¹⁰ + 7 fol. + 1 (endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "al-thānī" (see fol. 12a).
• Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed on Yawm al-Arbaʻah 4 Ramaḍān 789 [Sept. 18, 1387] (colophon juzʼ 1, fol. 197b ; a note by the same hand indicates that the first part was written five years after the second part). Copy of Juzʼ 2 completed during the night of 16 Ramaḍān 784 [Nov. 1382] by ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān ibn al-Ḥusayn (or: al-Ḥasan) al-Rūmī(?) al-Dawlawī, in al-Qāhirah, in the Khānqāh al-Amīr al-marḥūm al-Sayfī SYKhwā(?) (colophon, fol. 414b). Collation statement by the same hand on the margin of both colophons (fol. 197b and 414b). On the margin of the colophon of juzʼ 2, reading statement by the same hand, stating that it was read in front of the author.

Binding note

Dark brown leather over cardboards for upper and lower covers. The covers are similarly blind stamped and tooled with a central stamped mandorla with a floral pattern, and an outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern. Golden brown leather doublure with blind six lobed stamp, and an outer border consisting of fillets. Rebacked. Traces of a now wanting envelope flap.

Provenance

Several impressions of a circular waqf seal (see fol. 93a).

References

• Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 686
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 361 (21/1. Cmtre b) ; SI

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ Mashāriq al-anwār
• شرح مشارق الانوار
• شرح المشارق لاكمل الدين

Title on fol. 2a (later hand)

• Sharḥ al-Mashāriq li-Akmal al-Dīn

OCLC

144552926

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