Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Sources—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. 715H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Jammāʻīlī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid, 1146-1203. ʻUmdat al-aḥkām min aḥādīth sayyid al-anām. [Browse]
• جماعيلي، عبد الغني بن عبد الواحد، 1146-1203. عمدة الاحكام من احاديث سيد الانام. [Browse]
• Ibn al-Daybaʻ, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, 1461-1537. Aḥādīth al-qudsīyah. [Browse]
• ابن الديبع، عبد الرحمن بن علي، 1461-1537. احاديث القدسية. [Browse]
• Buraʻī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad, -1400 or 1401. Yā rabb ṣalla ʻalá al-Nabī al-mujtabá. [Browse]
• برعي، عبد الرحيم بن احمد، -1400 or 1401. يا رب صل على النبي المجتبى. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of ordinances according to traditions, from Muslim and al-Bukhārī by Jammāʻīlī, followed by a collection of hadith by Ibn al-Daybaʻ, and a poem from ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Buraʻī's Dīwān.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 88 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 16 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: [Kitāb ʻUmdat] Copied 11 Muḥarram 1229 (fol. 83b) -- [Arbaʻīn ḥadīth al-qudsīyah] Copied 2 Jumād[á] Awwal 1231 (fol. 88a)
• Incipit: [كتاب عمدة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانه ... الحمد لله الملك الجبار الواحد القهار واشهد ... اما بعد فان بعض اخواني سالني اختصار جمله في احاديث الاحكام مما اتفق عليه الامامان ... -- [اربعين حديث القدسية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانه قال الشيخ الحافظ الامام لظابط الحافط المتقن محدث ...
• Explicit: [كتاب عمدة] تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب وكان الزاع من رقه ... حادى عشر شهر محرم الحرام سنة 1229 -- [اربعين حديث القدسية] تمت الاحاديث القدسية فالله الحمد والمنه وكان الفراغ ... ليلة السبة ثاني يوم شهر جماد اول سنة 1231 واحد وثلاثين وماتين والف

Binding note

Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-83b: Kitāb ʻUmdat al-aḥkām min aḥādīth Sayyid al-Anām / taʼlīf Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʻAlī ibn Surūr al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī.
• 2. fol. 83b-88a: Arbaʻūn ḥadīth al-qudsīyah / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī al-Daybaʻ al-Shaybānī al-Ḥanbalī. A collection of eighty traditions although it is stated on the title page that there are forty.
• 3. fol. 88b: Yā rabb ṣalla ʻalá al-Nabī al-mujtabá / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Burʻī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1379.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423757

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