Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥtasib—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Future life—Islam—History of doctrines—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372-1449. Munabbihāt li-istiʻdād yawm al-mīʻād. 1660 [Browse]
• Amāsī, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1591 or 1592. Tabyīn al-maḥārim. Selections. [Browse]
• اماسي، يوسف بن عبد الله. تبيين المحارم [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two treatises: (1) a treatise on iḥtisāb according to the Ḥanafī legal school, in 64 chapters (bāb), by al-Sunāmī (dates uncertain, Brockelmann: after 993/1585 in Bukhārā ; Ziriklī: d. 696/1297 ; M. Izzi Dien: 7th-8th c./13th-14th c.) ; (2) a work on maʻād by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī (d. 852/1449).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, from title of Text 1 (preamble of text, fol. 3b) and title of Text 2 (beginning of text, fol. 70b). The title of text 1 also appears with mention of the author in an inscription on fol. 3a, apparently in the same hand as the ownership statement in the name of Nūḥādī Zādah on the left margin. The name of the author of text 2 appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 70b).
• Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark. Inscriptions and short excerpts from several texts, including Tabyīn al-maḥārim [by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Amāsī, d. 1000/1591 or 2?] and Abū al-Saʻūd Afandī on fol. 1a-b, 3a, 81b. Verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 82b. Table of contents of Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb on fol. 2a-b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf; quinions.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 14". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "640/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy of text 1 completed on 21 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1070 [Feb. 3, 1660] by Muṣtafá ibn Aḥmad (fol. 70a). Text 2 apparently by the same hand.
• Copyist: Muṣtafá ibn Aḥmad.

Binding note

Quarter bound in marbled paper and golden brown leather. Yellow paper pastedowns, with inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2a-70a: Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb / ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Sunāmī (or Sanāmī).
• 2. fol. 70b-81a: al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥajar [al-ʻAsqalānī].

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Nūḥādī Zādah on fol. 3a (erased). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1089, 2123
• Partington, David H. The Nisab Al-Ihtisab, an Arabic religio-legal text. PhD Dissertation. Princeton University, 1961.

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

192073202

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