Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Malikites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Mālik ibn Anas, -795 [Browse]
• مالك بن انس، -795 [Browse]
• Saḥnūn, ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Saʻīd, 776 or 777-854 [Browse]
• سحنون، عبد السلام بن سعيد، 776 or 777-854 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 900H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Parchment (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

The major part of one of the best works on Mālikite law and jurisprudence according to the narrative of Saḥnūn Abū Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Tanūkhī, 240 [854]. According to Ibn Khallikan (I, p. 494), Saḥnūn received the contents of al-Mudawwanah from Ibn al-Qāsim. The first who undertook to draw up a Mudawwanah was the Mālikite doctor, Asad ibn al-Furāt, 213 [828/9]. It originally consisted of questions proposed by him to Ibn al-Qāsim with their solution by the latter; he then took them with him to al-Qayrawān, and Saḥnūn wrote them out under his direction; it was called the Asadīyah, but as the questions were without any order in this first sketch, Saḥnūn drew them up under separate headings and augmented their number. This present volume contains the books on (1) al-Ṣiyām wa-al-iʻtikāf, (2) al-ḥudūd fī al-qadhf, (3) al-ʻAtq.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii + 131 + iii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 20 lines per page.
• Description: MS in good condition. Several folios are defective, several others are stained with dampness. MS incomplete at end. Probably from the Xlth century. MS is rare.
• Incipit: بسم الله ... السحور والاکل بعد الفجر. قلت لعبد الرحمن بن القاسم ما العجر عند ملك فقال ملكا عن الشفق ما هو ...
• Ending: قيل ذلك والذي استحق قد كان وحب له قبل الزرع فله فيه الكرا على ما و

Binding note

Modern type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging. Object includes earlier type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed geometric design (257 x 200 mm.).

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-10b: Kitāb al-Ṣiyām wa-al-iʻtikāf min al-Mudawwanah.
• 2. fol. 11a-53b: Kitāb al-Ḥudūd fī al-qadhf min al-Mudawwanah.
• 3. fol. 54a-131b: Kitāb al-ʻAtq al-awwal min al-Mudawwanah.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1834.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 494.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 476/7.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425945

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