Item Summary

The versification, in a thousand verses, of Kitāb ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth, a work on the science of traditions by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الالفية في علم الحديث / نظم ابو الفضل عبد الرحيم العراقي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Alfīyah fī ʻilm al-ḥadīth / naẓm Abū al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʻIrāqī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 788H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrn301c62k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1350-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
30 leaves : paper ; 175 x 125 (130 x 85) mm bound to 174 x 139 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥājj (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1460.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Title page covered with faded and overlapping inscriptions.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 30 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page in two columns
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... يقول راجي ربه المقتد ب * عبد الرحيم بن حسين الاثري * من بعد حمد الله ذي الأ لأ * علي امتنان جل عن احصاء ...
Colophon: تمت وبالفضل عمت والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تم تم تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper. Re-used manuscript pages used in the binding visible through damage on lower cover.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Terminolology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
72

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5b547d3c-2add-44e6-885d-0f850508497d/manifest