Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—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. 757H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Wadʻān, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1010 or 1011-1100 or 1101. Arbaʻūn al-Wadʻānīyah. Selections. [Browse]
• ابن ودعان، محمد بن علي، 1010 or 1011-1100 or 1101. اربعون الودعانية. مختارات. [Browse]
• Nawawī, 1233-1277. Ḥilyat al-abrār wa-shiʻār al-akhyār fī talkhīṣ al-daʻawāt wa-al-adhkār al-mustaḥabbah fī al-layl wa-al-nahār. [Browse]
• نووي، 1233-1277. حلية الابرار وشعار الاخيار في تلخيص الدعوات والاذكار المستحبة في الليل والنهار. [Browse]

Summary note

Traditions collected by Ibn Wadʻān, and an abridgement of a collection of prayers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Note on title page that the manuscript has 20 leaves.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i (blue paper) + 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and stained with dampness but fully legible.
• Origin: Probably from XlVth century.
• Incipit: [كتاب اربعين حديث] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله وسلم على مولانا ... هذه احاديث من الاربعين للفقيه بن ودعان ... -- [كتاب اختصار حلية الابرار] ومن كتاب اختصار حلية الابرار وشعار الاخيار في الدعوات ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم النجاري وسلم عن ابي ايوب الانصاري عن النبي ...
• Explicit: [كتاب اربعين حديث] ... حمدا او خسف او فذف او مسخى -- [كتاب اختصار حلية الابرار] تم ولله الحمد

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper. Blue paper pastedowns and flyleaf.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-4b: Kitāb Arbaʻīn ḥadīth / lil-Imām Ibn Wadʻān. Selections from the author's al-Arbaʻūn al- Wadʻānīyah, a collection of forty traditions.
• 2. fol. 4b-20b: Kitāb Ikhtiṣār Ḥilyat al-abrār wa-shiʻār al-akhyār fī al-daʻawāt al-mustajābah wa-al-adhkār al-mustaḥabbah fī al-layl wa-al-nahār / lil-Imām al-Muḥaddith Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawāwī. An abridgment of a collection of prayers for day and night, handed down from the earliest period of Islam.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2168.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 159, VI, p. 432.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

هذه اربعين حديث ومعه اختصار حلية الابرار وشعار الاخيار

Title on label on front cover

• Hādhihi Arbaʻīn ḥadīth wa-maʻahu Ikhtiṣār Ḥilyat al-abrār wa-shiʻār al-akhyār

OCLC

1340424936

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