Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Repentance—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of ḥadīths and adhkār concerned with repentance and performing good works in order to enter heaven, culled from traditional Sunni sources; divided into fifteen bāb. Most of the ḥadīths are in Arabic, with a smaller number in Turkish.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes. Fol. 55b-60b blank. Some staining and smudging; in good condition.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي جعل قلوبنا منابيع بحار افكاره و جعل السنتنا ينابيع انهار اذكاره

Binding note

European-style quarter leather with green cloth covers; gold tooling on spine; blind-stamped fillets; marbled paper flyleaves and pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

On fol. iib: Note by al-Sayyid Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn al-Sayyid ʻUmar Rushdī. Note and stamp of al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻIrfān, 19 Muḥarram 1245 H [21 July 1829].

Other title(s)

• Zahire ul-fahire fi husus id-dünya ve'l-âhire.
• ذخيرة الفاخرة في خصوص الدنيا و الاخرة.

OCLC

828626317

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