Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanbalites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

Yahuda, A. S. [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2575Yq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

The second volume of a work on Hanbalite law and jurisprudence, otherwise known as al-Kāfī fī furūʻ al-Ḥanbalīyah. This volume begins with the chapter on ṣifat al-ḥajj wa-al-ʻumrah and ends with that on iqrār bi-al-mujmal.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. Fawāʼid (fol. 1a). Inserts. Inscriptions before and after the text (1a-1b, 197b). Bookdealer's label: "ELS No. 2575" (upper pastedown).
• Collation: Arabic paper ; fol. 197 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 33 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم باب صفة الحج والعمرة * يستحب دخول مكه ...
• Ending: نجذ الكتاب بقدرة العزيز الوهاب والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على مولاى بعده

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) in dark brown leather. Gold-tooled edging on covers. Spine replaced with light brown leather. Green paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Provenance

Seal impression and ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ...; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jaʻfarī; ʻUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Ḥanbalī al-..ʻalī (fol. 1a). Waqf statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥamīdān al-Najdī (fol. 2a, 6a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 1536.
• Brockelmann, GAL, II, 129 (5: no. 2); S II, 129.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Furūʻ fī al-fiqh
• فروع في الفقه

OCLC

1340483684

Original language

• فروع.
• كتاب الفروع في الفقه / تأليف أبي عبد الله محمد بن مفلح المقدسي الحنبلي.
• فروع في الفقه
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم باب صفة الحج والعمرة * يستحب دخول مكه ...
• Ending: نجذ الكتاب بقدرة العزيز الوهاب والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على مولاى بعده

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