Details

Subject(s)

• Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá -892—Shamāʼil [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632 [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 741H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Shamāʼil al-Nabī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• A few marginal notes. On the folio before the title page is a table of contents of al-Shamāʼil. In the opening words and in the colophon the author states that he composed the work in Makkah in Ramaḍān 949.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 194 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in fair condition, slightly stained with dampness, worm-eaten.
• Origin: Probably XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فهذه عجالة علقتها على مشکل شمائل الامام ... الترمذي
• Colophon: قال مولفه رضي الله عنه ورحمه واعاد علينا من برکاته وافق الفراغ منه ثامن عشر رمضان المعظم سنة تسع واربعين وتسعمائة بعد عصر الجمعة تجاه الکعبة المشرفة بالمسجد الحرام وکان الابتداء فيه ثالث رمضان المذکور من السنة المذکورة ختمها الله بخير وادام ذلك علي الى ان اموت على الاسلام وافوز برضاه على الدوام انه على کل شي قدير وبالاجابة جدير والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبي بعده محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Flap missing.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī al-Islāmbūlī (fol. 1a), Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Rajī?, ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, Faḍl Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Aṭwī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Thīrī? al-shahīr bi-Zaynīʹzādah, and Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī al-Islāmbūlī dated 1262 (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 631.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 70.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 267/8.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 136.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• شمائل شريف
• ابن حجر على الشمائل
• شرح الشمائل لاابن حجر

Title from lower edge of text block

• Shamāʼil Sharīf

Title on upper pastedown

• Ibn Ḥajar ʻalá al-Shamāʼil

Title on folio 1a

• Sharḥ al-Shamāʼil li-Ibn Ḥajar

OCLC

1340420765

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