Item Summary

Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة في مناسك الحج ... [الخ]
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī manāsik al-ḥajj ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 98
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/70795b23v
Publisher
[1675]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1675
Format
Manuscript
Extent
100 leaves : paper ; 199 x 146 (120-130 x 80-85) mm
Provenance
On leaf 1a, note of sale by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī Dihdashtī, who purchased the manuscript from Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Hādī Dihdashtī for 2000 dīnārs.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 640, 594, 386, 389, 387, 388, 384.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 210 (5: no. 4); SII, 597 (no. 18-19); SIII, 1301 (no. 44-46)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1b-4b: Risālah fī manāsik al-ḥajj. Anonymous treatise on the rites of pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. leaves 5a-8b: al-Lumʻah al-Ḥillīyah fī maʻrifat al-nīyah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fahd. Treatise on intention.
3. leaves 9b-24a: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ḥajj / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on the rites of pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. leaves 24b-51b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṣalāh / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on prayer.
5. leaves 52b-74b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṭahārah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on ritual purity.
6. leaves 74b-84b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-zakāh wa-al-khums / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on zakat and khums.
7. leaves 85a-100b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṣawm / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on fasting; incomplete at end.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 1.
Marginal notes.
Layout: 12-14 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; mild insect damage and staining; leaf 1 is a replacement and detached.
Origin: Text 4 dated 24 Muḥarram 1086 (leaf 51b); other texts likely completed around the same time.
Incipit: [رسالة في مناسك] الحمد لله ... اعلم وفقك لکل خير انه يجب حج البيت -- [اللمعة الحلية] الحمد لله مبدع الصور ومنشئ البشر و خالق الشمس والقمر -- [رسالة اثنى عشرية في الحج] الحمد لله على الايه والصلوة على اشرف انبيائه واوليائه و بعد فيقول ... قبل ان يخرج الامر من يده هذه رسالة اثنى عشري و اسلوب غريب عبقري -- [رسالة اثنى عشرية في الصلاة] الحمد لله الذي وفقنا للاهتداء بعشريته [!] اشرف المرسلين -- [رسالة اثنى عشرية في الطهارة] اما بعد حمدا لله ... هذاه [!] رسالة اثنا عشرية تتلو عليك مسايل الطهارة -- [رسالة اثنى عشرية في الزكاة والخمس] حمدا لك اللهم على جمىل آلائك و جزيل نعمائك -- [رسالة اثنى عشرية في الصوم] الحمد لله الذي جعل الصوم جنة من النار
Binding Note
Loose in folder consisting of leather covers with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants and fillets; repaired with cloth spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fasts and feasts—Islam—Early works to 1800
Intention—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages—Saudi Arabia—Mecca—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Purity, Ritual—Islam—Early works to 1800
Ramadan—Early works to 1800
Salat—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Taxation (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Zakat—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8e141392-b44b-473d-97e0-cd328f17811d/manifest