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Subject(s)

• Islam—Rituals [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam [Browse]
• Salat [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

The prayer ritual based on the practices of the 12 Shiʻite Imams, followed by two extracts on prayer. Possibly a holograph, since a note on fol. 1a states: "māl-i Ḥujjat al-Islām," one of the titles of the author.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings and overlines in red; catchwords. A few marginal notes. Arabic quotations vocalized. Text 3 written in small script on margins of fol. 327a-327b, then diagonally or horizontally on entire page surface of fol. 328a-329b. Light staining and smudging, and mild insect damage. Fol. 297-328 are detached. In good condition.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي توحد بالملك فلا ند له في ملكوت سلطانه وتفرد بالعز فلا ضد له في جبروت كبريائه

Binding note

Brown full leather over pasted boards with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, corner pieces, and fillets. Blue paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-308a: Tuḥfat al-abrār al-multaqaṭ min āthār al-aʼimmah / [Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Aṣfahānī].
• 2. fol. 308b-327b: Bāb-i avval dar bayān-i aḥkām-i shakk va sahv ast. Extract on doubt and forgetfulness during prayer.
• 3. fol. 327a-329b: [Questions and answers regarding ritual prayer].

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), III, 404

Other format(s)

Published (Qum, Iran: 1989).

Other title(s)

• Dar bayān-i aḥkām-i shakk va sahv.
• در بىان احکام شك و سهو.

OCLC

778082187

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