Item Summary

Two treatises on the laws governing inheritance. Contains tables.

Descriptive Information

Title
[رسالتان في ارث ذوي الارحام].
Transliterated Title
[Risālatān fī irth dhawī al-arḥām].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 911H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9019sd957
Publisher
1173 [1759]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1759
Format
Manuscript
Extent
14 leaves : paper ; 170 x 112 (125 x 75) mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad al-Suyūfī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī (fol.6a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1850.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-5a: Hādhihi Risālah fī irth dhawī al-arḥām ʻalá madhhab ahl al-tanzīl wa-huwa madhhab al-Ḥanābilah wa-al-muʻtamad ʻinda al-Shāfiʻīyah. On the laws of inheritance according to the Hanbalite school which are also approved by the Shāfiʻite school.
2. fol. 6a-14b: Hādhihi Risālah fī irth dhawī al-arḥām ʻalá madhhab ahl al-qarābah wa-huwa madhhab Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān. On the laws of inheritance according to the Hanafite school.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from Hitti, P., Garrett collection.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Watermarks (grapes, cartouche with roman-alphabet lettering?) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [Hādhihi Risālah fī irth ... al-Ḥanābilah] Copied by the author in 1173 (fol. 5a) -- [Hādhihi Risālah fī irth ... Abī Ḥanīfah] Copy completed beginning of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1173 (fol. 14b).
Incipit: [هذه رسالة في ارث ... الحنابلة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فهذه رسالة في توريث ذوي الارحام على مذهب اهل تنزيل كافية ... -- [هذه رسالة في ارث ... ابي حنيبف] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى نعم علينا من بحر جوده ... اما بعد فهذه نبذه کافية في ارث ذوي الارحام على مذهب اهل القرابة ...
Colophon: [هذه رسالة في ارث ... الحنابلة] وهذا ما تيسرت کتابته على مذهب التنزيل والحمد لله العلي الجليل وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد ومحبيه وتابعيه وحزبه کتبت برسم مؤلفها سنة 1173 -- [هذه رسالة في ارث ... ابي حنيبف] وکتبت في اوائل جمادى الاولى الذي هو من شهورسنة ثلاث وسبعين ومائة والف من هجرة نبينا محمد عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
tables (documents)
holographs (autographs)
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
32

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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