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Subject(s)

• Ibn Sharaf Shāh, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad 1247 or 1248-1315 or 1316—Wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah [Browse]
• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah [Browse]
• Islamic law—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Terminology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—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. 827H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A glossary of terms used in the Hanafite books of law, arranged according to the usual division of legal works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption on table of contents (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Table of contents (fol. 1a). On the six folios after the colophon is a gloss on al-Wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah, the commentary of Rukn al-Dīn al-Astarābādī on al-Kāfiyah, a work on syntax by Ibn al-Ḥājib.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 148 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition. Folio 141 loose.
• Origin: [Ṭalibat al-ṭalabah] According to colophon copy completed by Ḥamad ibn Ḥusayn (fol. 141a). Probably from XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: [طلب الطلبة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ... الحمد لله الذي رفع العلم واهله ووضع الراضي بالجهل ... سالني جماعة من اهل العلم شرح ما يشكل علي الاحداث الذين قل اختلاط في اقتباس الادب ... -- [حاشية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد واله الصحبه اجمعين الحمد لله الملهم بالحق والمعلم بالصدق والصلاة علي رسوله ... وبعد فانه اردت ان اجمع بالخفظ عما شرح السميت المنسوبة الي القطعية من الارادات والاجوبة
• Colophon: [طلب الطلبة] تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد العبد الضعيف الراجي رحمة ربه اللطيف حمد بن الفقير حسين غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والمسلمين اجمعين آمين تم. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله واجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم تم تم تم تم -- [حاشية] تم الاوراق بعون الله الملك الخلاف

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and blue-green marbled paper. Brown/orange paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1625.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 165.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 275¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah.
• حاشية على الوافية في شرح الكافية.

OCLC

1340421264

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