Item Summary

A short discussion of the saying commonly attributed to the Caliph ʻAlī that whosoever mortifies his flesh exalts his soul.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب جواهر العقد ولأليه في معنى قول علي بن ابي طالب من لانت اسافله صلبت اعاليه / تأليف علي بن احمد القرافي الانصاري الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Jawāhir al-ʻiqd wa-laʼāliʼuhu fī maʻná qawl ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib man lānat asāfiluhu ṣalubat aʻālīh / taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Qarāfī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 771H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3j333d53d
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
4 leaves : paper ; 202 x 148 (165-175 x 110) mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: ʻAbd al-Bārī Naṣr al-ʻAshmāwī al-Mālikī al-Rifāʻī (fol. 1a). al-Batanūnī.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1404.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 4 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 20-21 lines per page.
Description: A few vowel signs ; watermarks (anchor, countermark initials with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتى با الله التوفيق حمدا لمن نور ابصار بصائر العارفين باشراقات انواره
Colophon: ... آمين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله سبحانه على نبيه محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما. علي
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
12

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/19cd219b-7d58-4bcd-9891-b160ad96c3e0/manifest