Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Hadith—Authorities [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 793H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Certificates [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A short essay on the importance of authenticity of the chain of transmission in traditions. The author cites the chain of transmitters according to the Naqshabandīyah, Khalwatīyah, Aḥmadīyah, Shādhilīyah and Akbarīyah schools and enumerates twenty-three schools in all. The essay concludes with the names of the Seven Sleepers and the magical value of each of their names.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• A few marginal notes. Ijāzah signed with seal impression by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Akbarī[?] al-Aḥmadī ... al-Khālidī (fol. 1a-1b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 12 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1273 (fol. 12b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين حمدا لواصل المنقطعين اليه برحمته ورافع علي السوي خدمة احاديث نبيه وشريعته ...
• Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة عصر يوم السبت رابع يوم خلت من شهر ذي الحجة سنة 1273

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) limp binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1473.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425084

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