al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Mukhtaṣar Sunan Abī Dāwūd - Mundhirī, ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qawī, 1185-1258.
Fourth part of an abridgment of Sunan Abī Dāʼūd, comprising the text from the beginning of Kitāb al-ʻItāq. According to the end of this copy, the work was completed by its author on Monday, 7 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 654 [Nov. 26, 1256] (fol. 253b). A note at the end of the text gives biographical details on the author, and mentions a fire that occurred in Medina that year (654).
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. The last letters of a word at the end of the line are sometimes written on the margin. Thick light cream paper, glossy, with thick laid lines, pulp, and a few chain lines visible. Title on tail of text block. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (one fol. blank after fol. 101 and one after fol. 248).
Chiefly quinions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "thālith" on fol. 20a).
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "25".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 18 Shawwāl 722 [Oct. 30, 1322] (fol. 253b). Dated collation statement to the right of the colophon.
Keywords: Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Abū Dāʼūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Sijistānī, -- 817 or 818-889.; Hadith -- Texts -- History -- 13th century -- Sources; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 14th century