Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Authorities—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Mallawī, ʻAbd al-Karīm, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• ملوي، عبد الكريم، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 774H [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise about the chain of transmitters as cited in the six canonical books of tradition and those of the four Imāms.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Mallawī (fol. 19a). MS from XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي تفرد بوجوب الوجود والقدم ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير المعترف بالتقصير احمد بن محمد بن احمد ... الشهير بالدردير قد طلب مني الفاضل النحرير العلم الشهير ...
• Colophon: تمت غفرالله لکاتبها الفقير عبدالکريم الملوي ولکل المسلمين اجمعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1471.
• Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 147.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424673

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