Details

Subject(s)

• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—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. 911H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tables (documents) [Browse]
• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Contains

• Azʹharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century. Risālah fī irth dhawī al-arḥām ʻalá madhhab ahl al-tanzīl wa-huwa madhhab al-Ḥanābilah wa-al-muʻtamad ʻinda al-Shāfiʻīyah. [Browse]
• Azʹharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century. Risālah fī irth dhawī al-arḥām ʻalá madhhab ahl al-qarābah wa-huwa madhhab Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān. [Browse]

Summary note

Two treatises on the laws governing inheritance. Contains tables.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from Hitti, P., Garrett collection.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Watermarks (grapes, cartouche with roman-alphabet lettering?) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: [Hādhihi Risālah fī irth ... al-Ḥanābilah] Copied by the author in 1173 (fol. 5a) -- [Hādhihi Risālah fī irth ... Abī Ḥanīfah] Copy completed beginning of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1173 (fol. 14b).
• Incipit: [هذه رسالة في ارث ... الحنابلة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فهذه رسالة في توريث ذوي الارحام على مذهب اهل تنزيل كافية ... -- [هذه رسالة في ارث ... ابي حنيبف] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى نعم علينا من بحر جوده ... اما بعد فهذه نبذه کافية في ارث ذوي الارحام على مذهب اهل القرابة ...
• Colophon: [هذه رسالة في ارث ... الحنابلة] وهذا ما تيسرت کتابته على مذهب التنزيل والحمد لله العلي الجليل وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد ومحبيه وتابعيه وحزبه کتبت برسم مؤلفها سنة 1173 -- [هذه رسالة في ارث ... ابي حنيبف] وکتبت في اوائل جمادى الاولى الذي هو من شهورسنة ثلاث وسبعين ومائة والف من هجرة نبينا محمد عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام

Binding note

Unbound.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-5a: Hādhihi Risālah fī irth dhawī al-arḥām ʻalá madhhab ahl al-tanzīl wa-huwa madhhab al-Ḥanābilah wa-al-muʻtamad ʻinda al-Shāfiʻīyah. On the laws of inheritance according to the Hanbalite school which are also approved by the Shāfiʻite school.
• 2. fol. 6a-14b: Hādhihi Risālah fī irth dhawī al-arḥām ʻalá madhhab ahl al-qarābah wa-huwa madhhab Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān. On the laws of inheritance according to the Hanafite school.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muḥammad al-Suyūfī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī (fol.6a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1850.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422643

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