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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Mahdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• مهدي، ابراهيم بن محمد، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 245H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad. Jawāb ʻalá Risālah fī faḍāʼil ahl al-bayt. [Browse]
• ابن عبد القادر، عبد القادر بن احمد. جواب على رسالة في فضائل اهل البيت. [Browse]
• Kibsī, Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad. Jawāb ʻalá Risālah fī faḍāʼil ahl al-bayt. [Browse]
• كبسي، اسماعيل بن احمد. جواب على رسالة في فضائل اهل البيت. [Browse]
• Daylamī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm. Jawāb ʻalá Risālah fī faḍāʼil ahl al-bayt. [Browse]
• ديلمي، الحسين بن ابراهيم. جواب على رسالة في فضائل اهل البيت. [Browse]

Summary note

A brief essay on the excellences and special privileges of the family of the Prophet followed by several responses.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Partially pointed text ; watermarks (shield? topped with fleur-de-lis) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 18-24 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: [Risālah] According to colophon copied Sunday 16 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1219 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mahdī (fol. 4b).
• Title from front pastedown.
• Colophon: [الرسالة] حرر يوم الاحد سادس عشر شهر ذ[ي]الحجة عام سنة 1219 کتبه افقر العباد الى ربه واحوجهم اليه [الى] علمه ابراهيم ابن محمد بن علي بن الحسين المهدي وفقه الله
• Incipit: [الرسالة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال رجل في بعض المواقف

Binding note

Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-stamped design.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-4b: Hādhihi al-Risāsalah Jamāl al-Āl al-Muṭahhar ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Amīr.
• 2. fol. 5a-5b: Jawāb Jamāl al-Āl wa-Badr Samā al-Kamāl ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir.
• 3. fol. 5b-5b: Jawāb Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad al-Kibsī.
• 4. fol. 6a-8b: Jawāb al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥyī a[l-D]īn Ibrāhīm al-Daylamī.

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 936.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 721.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1295012176

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