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Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Authorities—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl 810-870—Jāmiʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ [Browse]
• Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī approximately 821-875—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ [Browse]
• Ḥumaydī, Muḥammad ibn Fattūḥ -1095—Jamʻ bayna al-ṣaḥīḥayn [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of ḥadīths, compiled from the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim and al-Bukhārī, listing the ḥadīth according to the name of the transmitter, arranged in alphabetical order. A similar collection by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Fatūḥ ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥumaydī [d. 488/1095] is mentioned in the preamble (fol. 1b, l. 19-20).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The name of the author appears in a note on the same page as "al-Shaykh al-ʻallāmah wa-al-ḥabr al-fahhāmah al-ḥāfiẓ ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Ḥanbalī", and in the opening of the text as "al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ḥāfiẓ al-ʻallāmah ʻIzz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ḥanbalī" (fol. 1b; apparently later hand).
• A copy of this text by the same copyist dated 18 Rabīʻ II 709 is found in Turkey. See http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/6858/Pages/Old_Books.aspx, no. 14.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries; the text is vocalized. dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible; some leaves orange/peach. Marginal annotations. Fol. 1 apparently later replacement. According to catchword, leaves wanting between fol. 69 and 70 ; twelfth quire (fol. 110-119) misplaced: its proper place is between fol. 89 and 90. Wear on first and last leaves; lower exterior corner of six last leaves wanting and crudely repaired, with loss of text.
• Collation: Paper, fol. i, 264, ii ; i (later added free endpaper)1¹⁰ (-1 at beginning of quire ; fol. 1 probably replacement) 2-26¹⁰ 27⁶ (-1 at end of quire) i (later added blank leaf on European paper) i (later added free endpaper); catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Yawm al-Aḥad 9 Ṣafar 706 [Aug. 20, 1306] by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī in Damascus (fol. 264b). Dated collation statement on the left margin of the colophon (fol. 264b; 4 Shawwāl --7 (hardly legible)).
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ العلامة عزّ الدين ابو محمد عبد العزيز بن رضوان بن عبد الحق الحنبلى تغمّده الله برحمته ورضوانه الحمد لله الذى ارسل محمدا رحمة للعالمين وهدى للضالين واماما للمتقين وخصه بالبعثة الى الناس اجمعين ... وبعد فان اولى ما سمت الهمم الى تحصيله واستنفد العمر فى القيام بمضنون جمله وتفاصيله ما اورث السعادة الابدية ... [2أ] ... حرف الالف ذكر المشهور من المكنى ابو بكر الصديق رضي الله عنه المتفق عليه من حديثه عنه قال نظرت الى قدام المشركين
• Explicit: ليقض علينا ربك قال سفين فى قراة عبد الله و[--] وايا مال ه تم الكتاب

Binding note

Quarter bound with flap, in leather and black cloth. Purple paper pastedowns and free endpaper.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1425
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 930/3 ; SNI, 615/21b
• Kashf al-ẓunūn, V, 604

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• مطلع النيرين المختصر من الصحيحين
• مطلع النيرين في الحديث

Title in preamble (fol. 2a, l. 13) and in Hitti, P. Garrett coll

• Maṭlaʻ al-nayyirayn al-mukhtaṣar min al-Ṣaḥīḥayn

Title in Kashf al-ẓunūn

• Maṭlaʻ al-nayyirayn fī al-ḥadīth

OCLC

187072325

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