Item Summary

Collections of texts written by several hands on readings and on legal questions. The first text is a collection of beginnings of collections of ḥadīth (Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Jāmiʻ al-Tirmidhī, etc.).

Descriptive Information

Title
اوائل الكتب الستة. ثبت الشيخ محمد حياة السندي الاصل المدني
Transliterated Title
Awāʼil al-kutub al-sittah. Thabat al-shaykh Muḥammad Ḥayāh al-Sindī al-aṣl al-Madanī ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 492Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ng451m125
Publisher
Medina, [1749]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1749
Extent
71 leaves : paper ; 215 x 160 mm. bound to 218 x 165 mm.
Provenance
From the books of ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-KhLī (ownership statement dated 1256(?) H. [1840 or 41] on fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 81, 576, 1235, 1373
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-24a : Awāʼil al-kutub al-sittah wa-awāʼil baʻḍ kutub al-ḥadīth.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 576.
2. fol. 25a-29b : Thabat al-shaykh al-muḥaddith al-ʻallāmah al-naḥrīr al-shaykh Muḥammad Ḥayāh al-Sindī al-aṣl al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (with autograph ijāzah from the author on fol. 29b).
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 81.
3. fol. 30b-31b : [Ijāzah for Aḥmad Efendi Najīb from Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib, dated al-Madīnah, end of [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1162 [Dec. 1749]].
4. fol. 33a-40b : al-Fawz wa-al-ghunm fī masʼalat al-sharaf bi-al-umm / taʼlīf ... Khayr al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Ramlī al-Ḥanafī (the text is followed by an appendix on fol. 41a).
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1235.
5. fol. 42a-67b : Ismāʻ al-ṣumm fī ithbāt al-sharaf min qibal al-umm / taʼlīf ... Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ... Abī Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marrakushī al-Ḍarīr al-Mālikī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1373.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger from title of Text 1 (fol. 1a) and Text 2 (fol. 25a).
Physical description: Number of lines per page varies. Written in black ink with use of red. European paper, glossy.
Inscription in Roman script on a spine label (vertical): "AUT S 80" (repeated on the pastedown of the upper cover). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Sh 157" (repeated on the pastedown of the upper cover).
Several ijāzāt for Aḥmad Najīb, one from Muḥammad Ḥayāh al-Sindī al-Madanī (fol. 29b) ; one from Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib (fol. 30b-31b).
Origin: Copy of Text 1 completed on Wednesday 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1162 [Nov. 19, 1749] in al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, by Yūsuf ibn Muṣṭafá al-Madanī al-MṬūbisī(?), teacher ("muʻallim al-aṭfāl") (colophon, fol. 24a). Copy of Text 4 completed on 23 Jumādá al-Thāniyah 1162 [June 10, 1749], by al-ḥājj Aḥmad Najīb ibn al-ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad, whose father was qāḍī bi-ṭayyibatihi al-Ṭayyibah al-Ṭāhirah (colophon, fol. 40b). Copy of Text 5 completed in Jumādá al-Thānī 1162 [May-June 1749] by Yūsuf ibn Muṣṭafá al-MṬūbisī, in al-Madīnah al-Sharīfah (colophon, fol. 67b).
Binding Note
Paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, with brown leather and cloth for spine and edges. Re-used paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Saudi Arabia—Medina—18th century—Sources
Muslim scholars—Certification—History—18th century—Sources
Islamic law—14th century
Islamic law—17th century
Malikites
Hanafites
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
89

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/39b5fa29-ceba-4843-be61-a34a34937487/manifest