Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Solitude—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Biography—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• قاري الهروي، علي بن سلطان محمد، -1605 or 1606 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 745H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

Qārī al-Harawī, ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad, -1605 or 1606. Treatise on several passages of the Qurʼan. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of traditions on self-protection and abstinence from sin through solitude.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Short additions on folios 41-47.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 47 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (three crescents; crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIth contury. MS is rare.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين اخبرني بکتاب الاعتصام بالعزلة تأليف الشيخ الامام الحافظ ابي سليمن حمد بن محمد بن ابرهيم الحطابى ...
• Colophon: تم کتاب العزلة والحمد لله حمدًا کثيرًا دايما لا نهاية له وصلواته على رسوله محمد ابن عبدالله صلى الله عليه وسلم اخره

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in red leather and yellow paper with block-pressed leaf design. Spine edge damaged.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-40b: Kitāb al-Iʻtiṣām bi-al-ʻuzlah / taʼlīf Abī Sulaymān Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khaṭṭābī.
• 2. fol. 41a-46b: [Treatise on several passages of the Qurʼan] / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān al-Qārī.
• 3. fol. 47a-47b: Ṭabaqāt al-nās wa-wafātuhum. 27 verses of poetry dealing with some of the leading persons with their date of birth and death.

Provenance

Ownership signature of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1421.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 117.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Ṭabaqāt al-nās wa-wafātuhum.
• طبقات الناس ووفاتهم.

OCLC

1340425916

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