Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Contains

• Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, -892. Naẓm al-Shamāʼil. [Browse]
• ترمذي، محمد بن عيسى، -892. نظم الشمائل. [Browse]
• Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, -892. Shamāʼil. [Browse]
• ترمذي، محمد بن عيسى، -892. شمائل. [Browse]
• Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, -892. Shamāʼil. Persian. [Browse]
• ترمذي، محمد بن عيسى، -892. شمائل. فارسية. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of ḥadīth texts and a prayer; flyleaves and leaves 1a, 231a-232a, 238b-240a, 257b contain prescriptions, prayers, extracts, and verses.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from text 1 on leaf 4b, line 6.
• On cover: Label reading "Sharḥ-i Shamāʼil-i Tirmiz̲ī manẓūm-i Fārsī / ḥadīs̲" in Arabic script.
• Layout: 13-15 lines per page in one or two columns.
• Description: Written in neat nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; Arabic texts in vocalized naskh. Mild staining and insect damage. Borders added along tops and sides of the second work to make the pages larger.
• Origin: According to Moghadam, likely from the 17th century. Texts 1, 3 copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf (leaf 257a).
• Incipit: [نظم الشمائل] حمد لله خالق الاخلاق * بارئ الخلقت على الاطلاق -- [سبحة الالي] الحمد لله الذى انطق حبىبه بجوامع الکلم ... اما بعد فرمود رسول خدا ... که هر که خواند ىا از بر کند چهل حدىث حرام کرداند حق تعالى

Binding note

Full red-brown leather with gold-tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian and Arabic;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-230b: Naẓm al-Shamāʼil / Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī. Persian translation in verse of the Shamāʼil al-Nabī, a collection of ḥadīths on the life and character of the Prophet Muḥammad. Translated by Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Bāqir Ḥāfiẓ Haravī (leaves 4a, 230a) and dedicated to Emperor Jalāl al-Dīn Akbar [reigned 1556-1605] (leaf 4b). The translator had previously translated the Shamāʼil into Persian prose with the title al-Khaṣāʼil (leaf 4b).
• 2. leaves 232b-238a: Subḥat al-ālī. A collection of 100 short ḥadīths with translation into Persian verse; the compiler/translator describes himself as "al-ʻabd al-ḍaʻīf al-niẓām al-rājī min al-nabī wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ..." (leaf 233a).
• 3. leaves 240b-257a: [Prayer through the Prophet and the Muhājirūn]. In Arabic.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 58

Other title(s)

• Subḥat al-ālī.
• سبحة الالي.

OCLC

851089993

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