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كتاب فيه كتابين الاول الكفاية ... للصابوني الثاني شرح الخجندي في مذهب الامام الاعظم ابي حنيفة النعمان رحمه الله تعالى.
Kitāb fīhi Kitābayn al-awwal al-Kifāyah ... lil-Ṣābūnī al-thānī Sharḥ al-Khujandī fī madhhab al-imām al-aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá.
1355
Of the two works mentioned in the title, only the first one is extant in the ms. This is an abridgment by the author of his al-Kifāyah fī al-nihāyah, a treatise on uṣūl al-dīn, comprising chapters on God and his attributes, creation, prophecy, imamate, human actions and faith, written against the Muʻtazilah, philosophers, and Bāṭinīyah.
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- Publisher
- Bahsanī, [1355]
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 986H
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Ṣābūnī, Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd -1184—Kifāyah fī al-hidāyah
- Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Predestination (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Motazilites—Criticism and interpretation—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Item Summary
Of the two works mentioned in the title, only the first one is extant in the ms. This is an abridgment by the author of his al-Kifāyah fī al-nihāyah, a treatise on uṣūl al-dīn, comprising chapters on God and his attributes, creation, prophecy, imamate, human actions and faith, written against the Muʻtazilah, philosophers, and Bāṭinīyah.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب فيه كتابين الاول الكفاية ... للصابوني الثاني شرح الخجندي في مذهب الامام الاعظم ابي حنيفة النعمان رحمه الله تعالى.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb fīhi Kitābayn al-awwal al-Kifāyah ... lil-Ṣābūnī al-thānī Sharḥ al-Khujandī fī madhhab al-imām al-aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 986H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8g84mz805
- Publisher
- Bahsanī, [1355]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1355
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 21 leaves : paper ; 245 x 157 (180 x 115) mm. bound to 250 x 165 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership statement signed Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥusaynī al-Qādirī on fol. 1a, and one signed Muḥyī al-Dīn Afandī al-Nābulusī, dated 1256 H. on fol. 21b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 863
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Several inscriptions and short texts on fol. 1a, 20b-21b.
- Layout: 23 lines per page.
- Description: Written in casual medium small script in black ink. Title page in red ink. Thick dark cream paper with pulp and chain and laid lines visible. Most leaves are mended with loss of text. Water-damaged.
- Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Aḥad 23 Rajab 756 by Maḥmūd ibn Mahdī (Muḥammad?) in Bahsanī (colophon, fol. 20a, refering also to Fakhr al-Dīn, known as al-Uṣūlī, and followed by two verses of poetry).
- Incipit: الحمد لله ذي الجلال والاكرام والصلوة والسلام على رسوله محمد ... الانام و ... اصحابه الكرام قال الشيخ الامام الاجل نور الدين ... الصابونى البخارى رحمه الله وبعد لما تيسر الفراغ لى حمدا لله ومنّه ... الكفاية فى الهداية التمس منى بعض الاصحاب ان الخص منه ما هو العمدة.
- Explicit: خلافا لما يقوله الباطنية والفلاسفة وتاويل كل واحد منهما على خلاف ظاهره وانه عدول ظواهر النصوص من غير ضرورة ولا دليل وهو الحاد محض كذا روية الله تع بالابصار للمومنين يوم القيمة حق ثابت على ما قررنا قبل هذا اكرمنا الله تع بها فى العقبى مع النعيم المقيم واعاذنا من عذاب الجحيم و ... (؟) فى الدنيا على الصّراط المستقيم انه جواد كريم ورؤف رحيم والحمد لله على التمام وللرسول افضل السلام تمت الكتاب.
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown and black marbled paper over paper pasteboards. Paper pastedowns.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Ṣābūnī, Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd -1184—Kifāyah fī al-hidāyah
- Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Predestination (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Motazilites—Criticism and interpretation—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 50
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0aca1216-23b0-4300-b333-bfb00d42b7f5/manifest