Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—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

• Dakālī, Qāsim ibn Saʻīd, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• دكالي، قاسم بن سعيد، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 756H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on aḥādīth al-arbaʻīn, a collection containing twenty-nine traditions. The work is otherwise known as Kashf astār jawāhir al-ḥikam al-mustakhrajah al-mawrūthah min jawāmiʻ al-kalim min shurūḥ aḥādīth al-arbaʻīn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. It is stated in the beginning that the author was the pupil of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʻArabī 560-638/1165-1240. On the title page are two references to Miftāḥ al-ghayb by the author, and al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah by Ibn ʻArabī, and a note that there are 11 quires in the manuscript.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 48 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Entries in green ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 29 Ramaḍān 1114 in Damascus, Syria by Qāsim ibn Saʻīd ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUbayd ibn Ḍalīʻ ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dakālī al-Marrākushī al-Dandūnī (fol. 48b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله ... الحمد لله الذي زين سماء الملة الحنفية بنجوم الاحكام المشرعية ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من هذا الکتاب المبارك يوم السبت التاسع والعشرون [العشرين] من رمضان المعظم وذلك بدمشق الشام حرسها الله وحفظها من کل سوء بمجاورة جامع الاموي بمدرسة الشيخ عبدالرحمان ... في سنة اربعة عشر بعد المائة والف سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك اشهد ان لا اله [الا] انت استغفر واتوب اليك وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Yellow paper on covers, paper with a block-pressed gilt floral design on flap.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1429.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 174; IV, p. 32; V, p. 199.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1471-5.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1745.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Syria Damascus.

OCLC

1340420413

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