نصاب الاحتساب. الرسالة الركنية في كلمة الشهادة.

Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb. al-Risālah al-Ruknīyah fī kalimat al-shahādah.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[17--? or 18--?]
Description
75 leaves: paper ; 203 x 132 (164 x 80) mm bound to 205 x 135 mm.

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    Subject(s)
    Rare books genre
    Getty AAT genre
    Contains
    Summary note
    Careful copy of two texts, one on iḥtisāb, the other on faith.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from inscription on fol. 1a.
    • Occasional note, some in Turkish and Persian. Magic square on fol. 1a. Two labels pasted on the upper cover, with inscription in Arabic script, reading respectively: "Ḥ 34" and 172. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 960".
    • Layout: 25 lines per page.
    • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks.
    • Origin: The copy is not dated. Probably 12th-13th/18-19th century.
    • Incipit: [الرسالة الركنية] الحمد لله الظاهر وجوده بشهادة الكائنات الباطن كنه هويته لتعذر معرفته ... قال العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى عبيد الله بن محمد بن عبد العزيز السمرقندى تغمده الله سبحانه بجلابيب معرفته
    • Explicit: [الرسالة الركنية] فاما من اعطى واتق وصدّق بالحسنىفيسره لليسرى واما من نجل واستغنى وكذب بالحسنى فيسره للعسرى تمت الركنية والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة ... الطيبين الطاهرين قال عيسى عليه السلام يا مالح الارض لا تفسدوا فى الارض فان الملح اذا فسد لا يصلحه لشي
    Binding note
    Quater-bound with flap in marbled paper and golden-brown leather. Dark-orange dyed paper pastedowns.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1b-75b: Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb / ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Sunāmī.
    • 2. fol. 77b-94b: al-Risālah al-Ruknīyah fī kalimat al-shahādah / Rukn al-Dīn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī. Short treatise on faith, also known as "Sharḥ kalimat al-shahādatayn"
    Provenance
    From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1089, 2368
    • 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.
    Other title(s)
    • Kitāb Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb.
    • كتاب نصاب الاحتساب.
    • Sharḥ kalimat al-shahādatayn.
    • شرح كلمة الشهادتين.
    OCLC
    196950731
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