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Subject(s)

• Bazdawī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad 1009 or 1010-1089 or 1090—Kanz al-wuṣūl ilá maʻrifat al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Āmidī, ʻAlī ibn Abī ʻAlī 1156 or 7-1233—Iḥkām fī uṣūl al-aḥkām [Browse]
• آمدي، علي بن ابي علي—احكام في اصول الاحكام [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—13th century [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—13th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh, combining al-Pazdawī's Uṣūl, and al-Āmidī's Iḥkām.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 81a).
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries (space left blank in the middle of the copy). Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible, the latter in groups of three. Important ḥāshiyah on the beginning of the text. Short excerpts and inscriptions in black and red ink on fol. 1a and 81b-82a, including a quotation of the entry on the book and its author from Kātib Çelebi (fol. 81b). Modern purple pastedown and free endpaper, half-covering a previous pastedown of the upper cover, with table of contents. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Before the original text-block are two leaves, the free endpaper in purple paper and an added fly-leaf on European paper, with title written by a modern hand.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 31". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 64".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on the night of Sunday, 1 ("ghurrah) Jumādá al-Ūlá 760 [March 31, 1359], by ʻUthmān ibn Ṭawrah Faqīh ibn al-Ḥājāt(?) (fol. 81a).
• Incipit: الخير ذاتك اللهم يا واجب الوجود والفيض شعارك يا واسع الرحمة والجود ... واستصحب توفيقك فيما جمعه والفه قد منحتك ايها الطالب لنهاية الوصول الى علم الاصول بهذا الكتاب البديع فى معناه المطابق اسمه لمسماه
• Explicit: والنصّ المختصر والمطول واحد والقلة والكثرة صورة و الترجيح ليس الا بالمعانى والله الموفق بمنه وكرمه والمتم بارادته وامره

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with an arabesque with floral motifs, and an outer border consisting of blind fillets.

Provenance

Impression of a seal on fol. 1a, 80b and 81a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 893
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/2) ; SI

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

• كتاب نهاية الوصول الى علم الاصول للشيخ الامام احمد بن علي ابن الساعاتي البغدادي رحمه الله تعالى
• بديع النظام في اصول الفقه

Title by a modern hand on fol. (i)a

• Kitāb Nihāyat al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl lil-Shaykh al-imām Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Sāʻātī al-Baghdādī raḥimahu Allāhu taʻālá

Title in Mach, R. Yahuda and GAL

• Badīʻ al-niẓām fī uṣūl al-fiqh

OCLC

192096151

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