Item Summary

Treatise on the teaching of the different schools regarding legal questions (ikhtilāf al-madhāhib). The text is followed on fol. 184b by two short texts on wuḍūʻ, one attributed to al-Shāfiʻī, the other to al-Nawāfī(?) ; by a text on the names of the Prophet entitled according to the colophon "al-Anwār al-Jalīyah fī sharḥ asmāʼ al-Muṣṭafīyah", attributed to ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Muḥsin al-Wāsiṭī (Text 2, fol. 184b-186a) ; and by a duʻa, incomplete at beginning and end (Text 3, fol. 189a-190b).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الافصاح على المذاهب الاربعة / تصنيف الامام العالم الرباني عون الدين يحيى بن محمد بن ابي هبيرة الحنبلي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ifṣāḥ ʻalá al-madhāhib al-arbaʻah / taṣnīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-rabbānī ʻAwn al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Hubayrah al-Ḥanbalī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 287Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fx719q08k
Publisher
[between 13--? and 1381?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1381
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 191, i leaves: paper ; 222 x 157 (157 x 117) mm. bound to 222 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed ---? ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dāʻī, with obliterated name of place and Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated 21 Muḥarram [12]80 [July 1863]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1672
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
18-19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Fol. 187-191 are later additions. Kabīkaj and magic square and script on fol. 2a. Collation statement on the lower corner of fol. 184a (partly cut off). Several inscriptions with one obliterated ownership statement on fol. 186b (last fol. of the original ms.). Verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 187a (attributed to Saʻdī ) and 188b. Qurʼanic verses mentioning "Shifāʼ" on fol. 188a. Fol. 190 blank. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "11". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1016".
According to the colophon, the al-Anwār al-Jalīyah was copied on Yawm al-Aḥad 9 Ṣafar 783 [May 5, 1381] in a Madrasah Niẓāmīyah (colophon, fol. 186a). The ms. appears however to be from a later date.
Incipit text 1 (fol. 2b): كتاب الطهارات اجمعوا على ان الصلوة لا تصح الا بطهارة وجد السبيل اليها لقوله
Explicit text 1 (fol. 184a): بين الامة التمسك بما اجتمع عليه ومن روى طايفة واو عصابة اراد بعض اللقة(؟) آخره والحمد لله والصلوة على محمد واله
Incipit text 2 (fol. 184b): الحمد لله الذي اعطي جزيلا واولي جميلا ... قال ... عبد الرحمن بن المحسن الواسطى ... اما بعد فان اسما نبينا محمد ... كثيرة قيل هى الف اسم وانى حرصت على الوقوف عليها مجموعة
Explicit text 2 (fol. 186a): منه اخذ قسم من الجمال والوسافة ... الثابت والمتيب الراجع الى الله تعالى المفكر فى قدرته تمت
Beginning text 3 as extant (fol. 189a): والعفاف والغني ونعوذ بك من جهدك البلا ودرك الشقاء وسوء القصاء ... ونعوذ بك من الشر كله عاجله واجله ما علمنا منه ومن لم نعلم
Binding Note
Black paper over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Violet paper pastedowns and free endleaf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Name—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Devotional literature—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
196

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e12a3d8e-7587-4183-83fb-529f67070b53/manifest