Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Asceticism—Islam—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. 746H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Certificates [Browse]

Contains

• Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072. Arbaʻīn fī al-ḥadīth. [Browse]
• قشيري، عبد الكريم بن هوازن، 986-1072. اربعين في الحديث. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of traditions on asceticism.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 106a).
• A few marginal notes. On eight folios before the first is a collection of traditions entitled Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn fī al-ḥadīth compiled by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī. Immediately after the colophon are several notes about the reading of the work, one of which is dated 14 Rajab 521 in Nīsābūr though the copy was made 531 H. MS is incomplete at the beginning.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 106 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 22 lines per page.
• Description: Lacks some iʻjām diacritic marks ; MS in fair condition; mended. Upper half of folio between 1 and 2 is missing. Evidently unique.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 16 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 531 by its owner ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd ...ibn Manṣūr Qays ibn ʻAylān ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār (fol. 106a).
• Incipit:[قال ... الجنة ... باب ثمر الجنة
• Colophon: تم کتاب الزهد بحمد الله ومنّه وکان الفراغ منه يوم الثلثاء صلاة الظهرسادس عشرربيع الاخرمن سنة احد[ى] وثلثين وخمسمائة کتبه صاحبه عبد الوهّاب بن عبدالله ... بن منصور ابن قيس بن عيلان بن مضر بن نزار وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم تسليما. نفعه الله بالعلم وغفرله ولجميع المسلمين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Binding badly worn; flap and upper cover missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1419.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 237; V, p. 91.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424970

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