Item Summary

Abridgment of the longer commentary by ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Rāfiʻī (d. 623/1223) on Ghazzālī's Wajīz fī fiqh madhhab al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī. This copy contains the text from Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ to Kitāb al-Nafaqāt, Bāb 6.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثالث من كتاب الروضة المباركة
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thālith min Kitāb al-Rawḍah al-mubārakah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2505Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2b88qf80x
Publisher
[between 14--? and 15--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1599
Extent
319 leaves : paper ; 270 x 175 (205 x 135) mm. bound to 270 x 190 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Imām Shamīl ("al-Imām Shamwīl"), who bought it from Mahdī al-Shālī al-Shāfiʻī (inscriptions on fol. 1a). Waqf statement by Imām Shamīl dated 1270 H. [1853 or 4], with his seal (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1406
Kemper, M., A. Shikhsaidov, N. Tagirova. The Library of Imam Shamil, Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. LXIV (2002), n. 26
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 319a).
Physical description: 33 lines per page. Written in medium small square naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream soft paper, glossy, with a few lines and pulp visible. Occasional marginal annotation. Fol. 1a consists of a leaf pasted on the recto of an original leaf. The lower corner is open, and shows an inscription on the covered recto. Fol. 318 consists of a leaf pasted on the verso of an original leaf. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starting with "1" on fol. 2a). Modern foliation in pencil (omits the first leaf).
Inscriptions in Roman script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 419". Inscriptions in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1052".
Collation: Paper, fol. 319 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, at beginning of quire) 2-32¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Origin: The copy is undated. The paper and script suggest a dating of about the 15th century.
Incipit: كتاب الفرايض فيه عشرة ابواب الاول فى بيان اسباب الثورية والورثة وقدر استحقاقها
Explicit: العقار للحاجة والاولى ترك الزيادة وربما قبل تكرة الزيادة وبالله التوفيق
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Covered in paper. Blind tooling visible. Light purple pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Rāfiʻī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad 1162-1226—Fatḥ al-ʻAzīz fī sharḥ al-Wajīz
رافعي، عبد الكريم بن محمد—فتح العزيز في شرح الوجيز
Ghazzālī 1058-1111—Wajīz fī fiqh madhhab al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī
غزالي—وجيز في فقه مذهب الامام الشافعي
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—13th century—Sources
Shafiites—History—13th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
donation inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
328

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/129e4733-23b3-4596-bf81-d1420007a584/manifest