كشف المشكلات / للعلامة ابن الجوزي.

Kashf al-mushkilāt / lil-ʻAllāmah Ibn al-Jawzī.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[13th century?]
Description
222 leaves : paper ; 257 x 170 (192 x 120) mm bound to 257 x 164 mm.

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    Summary note
    The first volume of a commentary explaining the difficult traditions found in the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj. The work is also known as Sharḥ al-masānid.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from later caption (fol. 1b).
    • A few marginal notes. Faded title on lower edge of text block. Inscriptions, erased signatures, and a later title on folio 1a. It appears from the preface that the work was compiled from the lectures of al-Jawzī by one of his pupils. Inscriptions on folios 221b-222b.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 222 ; quires signed: 2-21 (first and last folios not marked) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 17 lines per page.
    • Description: Some vowel signs ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; lightly tinted pink paper ; MS in good condition but the first folio is defective. Rare.
    • Origin: Probably from the XIIIth century.
    • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قري علي شيخنا شيخ الاسلام الامام العالم الاوحد الفقيه الحافظ ناصر الحق ... اما بعد فان الله تعالي حفظ کتابنا ما لم يحفظ كتابا قبله ...
    • Ending: كمل الجز الاول بحمد الله وعونه يتلوه في الثاني كشف المشكل من مسند عبد الله بن مغقل
    Binding note
    Later? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central pattern and blind-tooled edging. Blue fabric doublures.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1450.
    • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 215.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    شرح المسانيد
    Title from folio 1a
    • Sharḥ al-masānīd
    OCLC
    1340421516
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