Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—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. 703H [Browse]

Contains

• Abū Dāʼūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Sijistānī, 817 or 818-889. Sunan. [Browse]
• ابو داؤود سليمان بن الاشعث السجستاني، 817 or 818-889. سنن. [Browse]

Summary note

The first volume of al-Mujtabá, an abridgment of Kitāb al-Sunan, a collection of traditions by Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Azdī al-Sijistānī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. The title appears on the edges.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 170 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from XlVth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من قال لا اله الا الله من قلبه دخل الجنة ...
• Colophon: تم والحمد لله وحده تم

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper. Covers in poor condition.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1366.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 623.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 412/3.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Mujtabá
• مجتبى
• جزء الاول من مختصر السنن [..]

Title on lower edge of text block

• Juzʼ al-awwal min Mukhtaṣar al-Sunan [..]

OCLC

1340422678

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