Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAlī al-Riḍā ibn Mūsá -818 or 819—Hadith [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith (Shiites)—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Imams (Shiites)—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• محمد، النبي [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 918 or 919-991 or 992. ʻUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā. Juzʼ 1. Persian. [Browse]
• ابن بابويه القمي، محمد بن علي، 918 or 919-991 or 992. عيون اخبار الرضا. جزء 1. Persian. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Shiʻite texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 127a.
• On spine: Label reading "Fiqh al-Riḍā ʻalayhi al-salām" in Arabic script, upside-down.
• Physical description: 17-19 lines per page; Arabic in naskh and Persian in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 1 in two columns, Arabic on right and Persian on left, with sūrah headings in red. Text 2 has rubrication and catchwords; text 3 has catchwords and spaces left for rubrication. Extensive marginal notes. Notes on fol. 12b, 41a, 125a. Text 2 bound incorrectly; correct order is fol. 41-72, 13-21, 73-95, 22-40, 96-124. Some damp staining and smudging, occasionally affecting legibility of text and marginal notes. Paper repairs to a few leaves in text 3.
• Origin: Text 1 completed 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 108[0?] H [30 April 1670?] (fol. 12a). Text 2 completed on a Sunday in Jumādá I 1080 H [September-October 1669] by Kiyā-Naẓar ibn Kiyā-Ḥaqqū Yazdī [...] Balāghī (fol. 124b).
• Incipit (text 2): حمد و سپاس خداىرا که واحد قهار و عزىز جبار و رحىم غفار است
• Incipit (text 3): حمد نامحدود واجب الوجوديرا [...] که در ذات عالى ىکتا

Binding note

Limp brown leather with blind-stamped fillet.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-12a: [Selected verses from the Qurʼān with Persian translation]. Incomplete at beginning.
• 2. fol. 13a-124b: ʻUyūn akhbā[r] al-Riḍā / [Ibn Bābawayh]. Persian translation of juzʼ 1 (bāb 1-29); title from colophon, fol. 124b.
• 3. fol. 125b-180b: Lawāmiʻ al-anwār fī maʻrifat [al]-aʼimmah al-aṭhār / ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan Zavvārī. Abridgment, with some additions, of Aḥsan al-kubbār fī manāqib al-aʼimmah al-aṭhār by Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd al-Warāmīnī. In Persian; incomplete at end.

Provenance

Birth dates noted on fol. 41a, 1101 H [1689 or 90] and 1112 H [1700 or 1701].

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XVIII, 361-2 (no. 477)

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Persian & Arabic. Selections.
• قرآن.

OCLC

760896598

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