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كشف المشكلات / للعلامة ابن الجوزي.
Kashf al-mushkilāt / lil-ʻAllāmah Ibn al-Jawzī.
1200-1299
The first volume of a commentary explaining the difficult traditions found in the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj. The work is also known as Sharḥ al-masānid.
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- Publisher
- [13th century?]
- People
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- Author
- Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201
- ابن الجوزي، ابو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي، approximately 1116-1201
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 776H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
The first volume of a commentary explaining the difficult traditions found in the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj. The work is also known as Sharḥ al-masānid.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كشف المشكلات / للعلامة ابن الجوزي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kashf al-mushkilāt / lil-ʻAllāmah Ibn al-Jawzī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 776H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3197xz31c
- Publisher
- [13th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1200-1299
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 222 leaves : paper ; 257 x 170 (192 x 120) mm bound to 257 x 164 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1450.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 215.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from later caption (fol. 1b).
- A few marginal notes. Faded title on lower edge of text block. Inscriptions, erased signatures, and a later title on folio 1a. It appears from the preface that the work was compiled from the lectures of al-Jawzī by one of his pupils. Inscriptions on folios 221b-222b.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 222 ; quires signed: 2-21 (first and last folios not marked) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page.
- Description: Some vowel signs ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; lightly tinted pink paper ; MS in good condition but the first folio is defective. Rare.
- Origin: Probably from the XIIIth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قري علي شيخنا شيخ الاسلام الامام العالم الاوحد الفقيه الحافظ ناصر الحق ... اما بعد فان الله تعالي حفظ کتابنا ما لم يحفظ كتابا قبله ...
- Ending: كمل الجز الاول بحمد الله وعونه يتلوه في الثاني كشف المشكل من مسند عبد الله بن مغقل
- Binding Note
- Later? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central pattern and blind-tooled edging. Blue fabric doublures.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 452
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/e6109e5b-29b3-4bc0-8af5-25d2a0d9d641/manifest