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. 718H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, 810-870. Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ. [Browse]
• بخاري، محمد بن اسماعيل، 810-870. جامع الصحيح. [Browse]
• Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, approximately 821-875. Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ. [Browse]
• مسلم بن الحجاج القشيري، approximately 821-875. جامع الصحيح. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of traditions based on the works of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Those marked with a khāʼ are quoted from al-Bukhārī, those marked with a mīm are from Muslim and those marked with a qāf are common to both. Incomplete at end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes. Folios 49, 50 and 54 are supplied by a later hand. Folio 50b is blank.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 56 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; folios 1-50 and 53-55 yellow-tinted paper ; MS in fair condition, mended with some replacement pages.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله محيي الرمم ومجري القلم وذارئ الامم وبارئ النسم ...
• Ending: ... قال فکيف اصنع يا رسول الله قال تأخذ ما تعرف وتدع ما تنکر وتقبل على خاصتك و

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Small stamped design in center of covers.

Provenance

Ownership signature of ʻAbd Allāh with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1385.
• Suyūṭī, Bughyat al-wuʻāh (1908), p. 227.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, 547/8.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 420/1.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1322.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 145.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 737.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422063

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