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Subject(s)

• Anas ibn Mālik -approximately 711—Criticism and interpretation—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Basmalah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Sabʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• سبعي، عبد الله بن محمد، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 764H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Certificates [Browse]
• Cloth bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A critical treatise on the narrative of Anas ibn Mālik concerning the traditions relating to al-basmalah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes; marginal summaries. Title page is covered with notes. On folios following the colophon is an ijāzah signed and stamped with the seal of ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ʻAbd al-Rasūl al-Makkī al-Ḥanafī dated Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1241.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 53 + v ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (text: three crescents; endpapers only: shield with a face-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 6 Shawwāl 1227 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Sabʻī (fol. 53b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي احمدك اللهم ان حفظت هذه الشريعة الغراء الواضحة البيضا بافراد في كل عصر ... اما بعد فهذه صبابة جمعت من فن علم الحديث ومتعلقاته ...
• Colophon: وافق تمامه ضحى يوم الثلوت [الثلاثاء] لعله السادس من شهرشوال سنة 1227 من الهجرة النبوية على مشرفها افضل الصلاة وازکا [ازکى] التسليم بقلم احقر العباد عبد الله بن محمد السبعي غفر الله له ولوالديه وکافة المسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم امين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red, green and yellow striped fabric.

Provenance

Signature of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1405.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421508

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