Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Hadith [Browse]
• Hadith (Shiites)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Āmidī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad, -1155. Ghurar al-ḥikam wa-durar al-kalim. [Browse]
• آمدي، عبد الواحد بن محمد، d. 1155. غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم. [Browse]

Summary note

Bāb 6-8 of the author's Persian translation of his own rearrangement of al-Āmidī's treatise on ḥadīths from ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Introduction on fol. 1b-5b; main text on fol. 6b-186a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from upper edge.
• On front cover: Label reading "418" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Label reading "1436" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Arabic quotations in large script and vocalized; interlinear Persian translation in red. Text framed in thick gold line and outer margin bordered by thin gold line. Paper has partially split along gold lines on first few and last few leaves. Light smudging and staining.
• Origin: Copy completed by Muḥammad Riz̤ā ibn Bābā Khān in 1129 H. [1716 or 17] (fol. 186a).
• Incipit: حمد و ثناىى که جمىع مخلوقىن و ملائكه سموات و ارضىن با مداد مداد بحار و اقلام اشجار از عهده نگارش بر خى از ان عاجز آىند مالک المالکى را سزا و مالک الرقابى را رواست

Binding note

European-style full brown leather with brown leather doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamp dated 1249 H. [1833 or 4] on fol. 1b. Owner's stamps of ʻAbd al-Wahhāb and Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh. Several owner's stamps on verso of back flyleaf.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXIV, 218.

OCLC

738522804

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