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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Lakhmī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 13th century [Browse]
• Baghdādī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, active 13th century [Browse]

Related name

• لخمي، محمد بن ابي بكر، active 13th century [Browse]
• بغدادي، عبد القادر، active 13th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 740H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Certificates [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of the personal characteristics, habits and the way of life of the Prophet based on the ḥadīth.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page is a note that the copy was made for the library of a distinguished prince. Reading certificates dated 22 Shaʻbān 1270 (fol. 1a), Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 8?1 (fol. 37b). Samʻ certificate dated 16 Shawwāl 958 (fol. 37b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 37 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 13 Ṣafar 678 by by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Aḥmad/Ḥamad ibn Abī Bakr ... al-Lakhmī al-Mundhirī al-Ghunaymī of Bilbīs and Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī (fol. 37b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة الزاهد المحقق المدقق ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سوره الحافظ الترمذي ...
• Colophon: وكان الفراغ من سبحه في ثالث عشر شهر صفر المبارك عام ثمان وسبعين وستميئة احسن الله عافيها محمد واله عليه افضل للصلوه والسلام م

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and orange paper with block-stamped design. Blue-green marbled paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Provenance

Ownership signature of Sulaymān ... (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 630.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Shamāyil fī al-aḥādīth al-Nabawīyah
• شمايل في الاحاديث النبوية

OCLC

1340425836

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