Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Aceph. copy of a collection of ḥadīth arranged by topic. The first extant bāb is Bāb fī ʻallāmat al-nifāq min al-ṣiḥāḥ (fol. 3b).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown). Elaborate heading on fol. 103b. Soft dark cream paper, hardly translucid. Fol. 1 is a later added fly-leaf (European paper with watermark) ; fol. 250 is a later added half-folio, with glosses. Extensive marginal glosses in several hands. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 1a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals.
• Two audition statements on fol. 118a.
• Origin: According to colophons, copied by Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 9 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 719 [Dec. 22, 1319] (fol. 118a) and 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah [Jan. 21, 1320] (fol. 249b).
• Beginning as extant: قال واخبرني عن الساعة قال المسئول عنها باعلم من السايل
• Explicit: قال رسول الله صلّى اله عليه وسلّم مثل امّتى مثل المطر لا يدرى اوله خير ام آخره

Binding note

Modern binding.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 623
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 363 (6/1) ; SI, 620 (6/1)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

231359275

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