Details

Subject(s)

• Hadiths—Texts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Shāmil, Imām, 1798?-1871 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• donation inscriptions [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of ḥadīths, compiled in Ramaḍān 677 (see end of text ; in other copies: 670).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 188b).
• Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in thick small round naskh in black ink with use of red. Wove paper. Annotations and short excerpts of texts on the margins and on small pieces of paper pasted between the original leaves of the copy. Fol. 1 is a later added fly-leaf on wove paper with an embossed stamp, with title on the recto. Table of contents on fol. 2b-5a. Short texts and inscriptions on fol. 189a-b.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf thā". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1145/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in 1259 H. (fol. 188b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مكوّر الليل على النهار تذكرة لاولى القلوب والابصار وتبصرة لذوى الالباب والاعتبار ... اما بعد فقد قال الله تعالى وما خلقت الجن والانس الا ليعبدون ما اريد منهم من رزق وما اريد ان يطعمون وهذا تصريح بانهم خلقوا للعبادة
• Explicit: الحمد لله الذى هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدى لو لا ان هدانا الله اللهم صل على محمد وعلى ال محمد عبدك ورسولك النبى الامى وعلى ال محمد وازواجه وذريته كما صليت على ابراهيم وعلى ال ابراهيم وبارك على محمد وعلى ال محمد كما بارك على ابراهيم و على ال ابراهيم انك حميد مجيد ثم لله الحمد على الاتمام وعلى رسوله الصلاة والسلام آمين قال مؤلفه ابو زكريا يحيى النووى ... فرغت منه يوم الاثنين رابع عشرين من رمضان سنة سبع سبعين وستمائة والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب

Binding note

Dark green leather with a gold- and blind-tooled panel over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Envelope flap and fore-edge flap disbound.

Provenance

Waqf from Imām Shamil ("al-Imām Shamwīl") for his sons, dated 1270 H. [1853 or 4], with impression of a stamp, on fol. 5a. Impression of a stamp on fol. 2a. Impression of a large circular stamp on fol. 188b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 650
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 397/X ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

180911021

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