Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Authorities—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. 734H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Certificates [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection containing traditions and verses of poetry, wisdom sayings and anecdotes of leading Sunnites.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Folio 2a lists the contents of the main text, and the ijāzahs which follow it. On forty-five folios after the colophon are several verses of poetry by the author, the ijāzahs for the author by his teachers and several notes. Seal impression of ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Qādirī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 77a and b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 112 ; main text: (catchwords; quires signed: 2-6; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19-21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS is written in different hands ; watermarks (anchor?; three crescents; crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله حمدا يليق بذاته المقدسة الکاملة والشكر له ... اما بعد فان الامام العامل والجر الهمام الكالم الزاهد الورع العابد ...
• Ending: على جل اصحاب الحديث سلامي* افديهم روحي معا وکلامي * وددت لو اني عندهم متمنطق * بحمل غواشيم کمثل غلامي

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with zig-zag block-pressed design. Multi-colored endbands.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-56a: Kitāb Riyāḍ al-jannah fī āthār Ahl al-Sunnah / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Qādir ... Ibn Faqīh Fuṣṣah al-Ḥanbalī.
• 2. fol. 57b-58a: Ijāzah. Dated 1 Jumādá Thānī 1249.
• 3. fol. 60b: [Poem] / ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Ḥanbalī.
• 4. fol. 61a-62b: Ijāzat al-marḥūm al-muḥaddith al-atharī al-ʻallāmah al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Ḥanbalī bi-khuṭūṭ mashāyikhah al-kirām. Listed in the index as: Ijāzat al-Sayyid al-Barzanjī lil-faqīr. Dated 18 Muḥarram 1080.
• 5. fol. 63a-65b: Ijāzah min al-marḥūm al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAllān al-Ṣadīqī al-Makkī. Dated 5 Muḥarram 1037 in al-Ḥaram in Mecca.
• 6. fol. 67a-68a: Ijāzah min al-Shaykh al-Imām Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥamawī al-Makkī al-Shāfiʻī lil-marḥūm al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Ḥanbalī. Dated 3 Ramaḍān 1032.
• 7. fol. 69a-70a: [Unlisted additions] An isnād? and an ijāzah in the name of ʻAbd al-Jawād ibn Ibrāhīm al-shahīr bi-Jān Bulāṭī and dated end of Ramaḍān 1032.
• 8. fol. 71a-73a: Ijāzat ʻAbd al-Wārith al-Ṣadīqī, Muftī al-Mālikīyah bi-Miṣr lil-wālidih. Dated middle of Ramaḍān 1032.
• 9. fol. 74a-75b: Ijāzat al-Shaykh al-Marʻī al-Ḥanbalī lil-wālidih. Dated 19 Ramaḍān 1032
• 10. fol. 76a: [Isnād]
• 11. fol. 76b-77b: : [Ijāzatayn] ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Shāfiʻī. Seal impression in colophon of both certificates.
• 12. fol. 78a-79a: [Ijāzat] al-Shaykh ʻĀmir al-Sharāwī al-Shāfiʻī. Dated 1032.
• 13. fol. 79b: [Isnād]
• 14. fol. 80a-83a: Ijāzat Shaykh al-Imām ʻAlī al-Shabrāmallisī al-Miṣrī.
• 15. fol. 84a-87a: Ijāzat al-Shaykh Manṣūr al-Ḥanbalī al-Bahūtī lil-wālid lil-wālid. Dated middle of Ramaḍān [10]32.
• 16. fol. 88a-b: Ijāzat Aḥmad al-Māʻarrī[?] al-Mālikī lil-wālid. Dated 1032.
• 17. fol. 89b: Ṣūrat maktūb wa-radd min ʻAbd al-Ḥaḍrah ... li-Yūsuf Afandī al-Fatḥī.
• 18. fol. 90a-b-: Ijāzat al-Shaykh Muḥammad [ibn Qāsim ibn Ismāʻīl] al-Baqrī lil-faqīr fī al-qirāʼāt.
• 19. fol. 91a-92a: Ijāzat Abī al-Ḥasan al-Shirbīnī al-Shāfiʻī lil-wālid. Dated 12 Shaʻbān 1032.
• 20. fol. 93a-95a: Ijāzat al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Hūtī al-Khalwatī al-Ḥanbalī lil-faqīr. Dated end of [Dhụ] al-Qaʻdah 1071.
• 21. fol. 95b: [Isnād?]
• 22. fol. 97a-98a: al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabbārī lil-wālid. Dated 16 Muḥarram.
• 23. fol. 98b-99a: [Isnād]
• 24. fol. 99b-100a: [Ijāzat] Muḥammad ibn Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Ṣiddīqī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī al-Taymī. Dated 15 Shaʻbān 1032.
• 25. fol. 100a-101b: [Miscellaneous additions] Includes an isnād from Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī to Imām al-Bukhārī.

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Provenance

Ownership signature: ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān? al-Najdī? dated 1237 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1408.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1368202985

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