Item Summary

Two treatises on Islamic cosmology and future life.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاشاعة في اشراط الساعة ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ishāʻat fī ashrāṭ al-sāʻah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1002H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4t64h079h
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
134 leaves : paper ; 206 x 155 (164 x 93) mm bound to 205 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1508, 775.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2766, 2778.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 112.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 199.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. [ii]b-101a: Kitāb al-Ishāʻat fī ashrāṭ al-sāʻah. A treatise on the signs and prognostics of the day of judgment. The first folio has been replaced by a later hand. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed in al-Madīnah, 1076 [1666].
2. fol. 101a: [Fawāʼid] "Masʼalat īmān fī ḥaqq al-rūḥ wa-al-jasad" and a question about about the creation of the world.
3. fol. 101b-134a: Daqāyiq akhbār. A treatise on the creation of man and the angels, on death and the next world. The last folio has been replaced by a later hand.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from caption of first work (fol. [ii]b).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (first is later pink paper) + 134 + ii (last is later pink paper) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (unidentified design and roman-alphabet lettering) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIlth century. Both treatises written in the same hand.
Incipit: [الاشاعة في اشراط الساعة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم احمد من اوضح منهاج الحق ونصب عليه في كل شيئ دللا ووعدا ... -- [الدقائق الاخبار] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وقد جاء في الخبر ان الله تعالى خلق شجرة ولها اربعة اعصان فسماها شجرة اليقين ثم خلق نور محمد عليه السلام في حجاب درة بيضاء مثله ...
Colophon: [الاشاعة في اشراط الساعة] قال مولفه الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد بن عبد الرسول بن عبد السيد العلوي الحسيني الموسوي الشهرزوري البرزنجي ثم المدني عفا [الله] عنه ختمتها يوم الاربعاء بين الصلاتين حادي عشرين شهرالله الحرام ذي القعدة من شهورسنة 1076 بالمدينة النبويّة بمنزلي بالزقاق المعروف بـ[ال]سويقة حامدا ومصليا مستغفرا محسبلا محوقلا داعيا بالمغفرة للمسلمين والمسلمات جلعا الله ذريعة ليوم المعاد بجاه سيد العباد امين امين -- [الدقائق الاخبار] قال النبي عليه السلام ان اهل الجنة ياکلون ويتفکهون لم يصر طعامهم وشرابهم اذى ويکون لهم ريحاً کريح المسك والکافور. تمت الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب
Binding Note
Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark red leather and marbled paper. Pink paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Future life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Judgment Day (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Islamic cosmology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
284

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ee836cee-7dc3-4a29-a71f-c2937e820b9a/manifest