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Subject(s)

• Mufīd, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad -1022—Muqniʻah [Browse]
• مفيد، محمد بن محمد، -1022—مقنعة [Browse]
• Hadith (Shiites)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

First volume of a commentary on al-Mufīd's Muqniʻah, comprising Kitāb al-ṭahārah through Kitāb al-jihād. Text begins on leaf 10b and is preceded by the following: notes and extracts, particularly from Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah, on a variety of legal matters; a short Persian text on leaves 3b-4a entitled "Risālah fī anḥāʼ ṣiyagh ʻuqūd al-nikāḥ"; a chart on leaf 5b; and a short biography of al-Shaykh al-Mufīd in Persian on leaves 7a-7b. Text is followed by a detached leaf containing extracts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 27 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Some leaves are dyed yellow. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Occasional damp staining and a few repairs.
• Origin: First half completed Jumādá II 1069 H [February-March 1659], by Muḥammad Murād ibn Mahdī al-Kashmīrī (leaf 181a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله ولى الحمد و مستحقه

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

On leaf 1a, several owner's stamps and a note dated 1188 H [1774 or 1775]. On leaf 10a, two owner's notes with stamps, one of which is dated 1216 H [1801 or 1802].

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1413
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 512 (no. 2); SI, 707

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Risālah fī anḥāʼ ṣiyagh ʻuqūd al-nikāḥ.
• رسالة في انحاء صيغ عقود النكاح.

OCLC

857140237

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