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Subject(s)

• Fīrūzābādī al-Shīrāzī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf approximately 1003-1083—Tanbīh [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—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. 846H [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311. Kifāyat al-nabīh fī sharḥ al-Tanbīh. [Browse]
• ابن الرفعة، احمد بن محمد، 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311. كفاية النبيه في شرح التنبيه. [Browse]

Summary note

The second volume of a redaction of al-Kifāyah. This in turn is a commentary by Najm al-Dīn ibn al-Rifʻah on a compendium of Shāfiʻite jurisprudence by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī al-Shīrāzī entitled al-Tanbīh fī al-fiqh. This volume covers Bāb al-Ḥajj to Bāb al-Khulʻ

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon is a statement to the effect that the book on divorce begins the next volume. Kabīkab (invocation against bookworms) repeated three times on folio 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 455 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-47 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين باب صفة الحج ن هذا الباب مسوق لبيان صفة الحج واجبه ومسنونه واكثر ما فيه تساويه فيه العمرة ...
• Colophon: قولي تبعيض الاقراروالله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرًا دائما ابدًا الى يوم الدين ورضي الله تعالى عن ساداتنا وموالينا اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1782.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 435.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4465.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425122

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