Item Summary

A commentary on al-Muḥarrar fī fiqh al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī, a work on Shāfiʻite law by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Qazwīnī.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح المحرر فقه شافعي.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Muḥarrar fiqh Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 872H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4b29bj373
Publisher
Rabīʻ al-Awwal 963 [January 1556]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1556
Format
Manuscript
Extent
223 leaves : paper ; 183 x 135 (130 x 97) mm bound to 181 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1790.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from later caption (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Edges were trimmed. Passage on folio 1a beginning "Fī rajul".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 223 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; a few vowel signs ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed beginning of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 963 by Yūnus ibn Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad [obscured] (fol. 223a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم کتاب الفرائض اي مسائل قسمة المواريث جمع فريضة بمعني مفروضة اي مقردة لما فيها من السهام ...
Colophon: انهاه مشقا عجلا افقرعبيد الله المقرين بالذنوب والخطايا والعيوب المحتاج الى مغفرة الله وعفوه والنظر اليه بحسن الکرم والجود يونس بن بدر الدين محمد بن احمد ... الامام عفا الله عنه وعن والديه واحلّه محل المقربين عنده وافاض عليه من انعامه وبره ولطفه بمنّه وکرمه وجميع المسلمين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين. وکتبه في اواخر ربيع الاول سنة ثلث وستين وتسع مائة. احسن الله عاقبتها بالخير
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown and blue marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Rāfiʻī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad 1162-1226—Muḥarrar
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
454

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/223e9ac2-2ac5-4d61-8d39-cfbf8182694d/manifest