Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—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. 761H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Certificates [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• ʻIyāḍ ibn Mūsá, 1083-1149. Shifāʼ fī taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá. [Browse]
• عياض بن موسى، 1083-1149. شفا بتعريف حقوق المصطفى. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of forty traditions taken from Kitāb al-Shifa bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá, a work on traditions relating to the merits of the Prophet and the obligations of the faithful toward him, by Abū al-Faḍl ʻIyāḍ ibn Mūsá al-Yaḥṣubī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• After the colophon (fol. 8a) and on the following page and four folios are several notes (samʻ, ijāzah) about reading Kitāb al-Shifā and the names of those who heard it read. Some notes are dated in the 670s/1270s.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 12 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Paper tinted red ; lacking many iʻjām diacritic marks ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Perhaps from the XIVth century? Date discrepancy between the author's dates, and the dates from the reading notes.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحديث الاول حدثنا الشيخ ابو محمد
• Colophon: آخرالاربعين الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرًا

Binding note

Later covering of purple paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1441.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423519

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