Item Summary

Collection of twenty-one short treatises by al-Suyūṭī.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجموعة تشتمل على 22 رسالة للجلال السيوطي
Transliterated Title
Majmūʻah tashtamilu ʻalá 22 risālah lil-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1152Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbn999k78h
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Extent
32 leaves: paper ; 320 x 216 (220 x 142) mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 2007
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2b: al-Thubūt fī ḍabṭ al-qunūt / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On the pronounciation of "yaʻizz" in the work Duʻāʼ al-Qunūt.
2. fol. 2b-3b: al-ʻAjājah al-zarnabīyah fī al-sulālah al-Zaynabīyah / al-Ṣuyūṭi. Treatise proving the nobility of the descendants of Zaynab bint ʻAlī.
3. fol. 3b-5a: Ḥuṣūl al-rifq bi-uṣūl al-rizq / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On Hadiths relating to prayers and actions which guarantee one's daily sustenance.
4. fol. 5a-7a: Inbāh al-adhkiyāʼ fī ḥayāt al-anbiyāʼ / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On reconciling the belief that the Prophet is alive in his grave with his own words that whenever anyone pronounces the salām on the Prophet God gives Muḥammad his soul in order to answer, indicating that his souls leaves him at certain times.
5. fol. 7a-8b: al-Fānīd fī ḥalāwat al-asānīd / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On traditions related by Abū Ḥanīfah on the authority of Mālik ibn Anas.
6. fol. 8b-10a: Natījat al-fikr fī al-jahr bi-al-dhikr / al-Ṣuyūṭi. A work on the manner in which dhikr should be recited, aloud or in silence.
7. fol. 10a-12a: Manhal al-laṭāʼif fī al-kunāfah wa-al-qaṭāʼif / al-Ṣuyūṭi. In praise of two types of pastries.
8. fol. 12a-15a: Ghāyat al-raghbah fī ādāb al-suḥbah / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On friendship.
9. fol. 15b-16b: Itḥāf al-nubalāʼ bi-akhbār al-thuqalāʼ / al-Ṣuyūṭi. Collection of wise sayings and proverbs concerning bores.
10. fol. 16b-17b: Itmām al-ʻiqyān fī aḥkām al-khiṣyān / al-Ṣuyūṭi. A work on eunuchs. Also called Kitāb al-Iʻlām fī aḥkām al-khuddām.
11. fol. 17b-18a: Fajr al-thamd fī iʻrāb akmal al-ḥamd / al-Ṣuyūṭi. Response to/extract from? Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Kāfījī on the grammatical analysis of the word "akmal" in "al-ḥamdu lillāh akmal al-ḥamd"
12. fol. 18a-b: Lubs al-yalab fī al-jawāb ʻan īrād Ḥalab / al-Ṣuyūṭi. An answer to an objection to the authorʼs saying in Kitāb al-Iʻlām that Gabriel is the only messenger between God and His Prophets.
13. fol. 18b-20b: Iḥyāʼ al-mayt bi-faḍāʼil Ahl al-Bayt / al-Ṣuyūṭi. A collection of traditions on the virtues of Muḥammad's family.
14. fol. 20b-21b: al-Ẓafar bi-qalm al-ẓufr / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On trimming fingernails.
15. fol. 21b-22a: al-Ajr al-jazl fī al-ghazl / al-Suyūṭī. Collection of traditions on spinning.
16. fol. 22a-23b: Kashf al-ḍabābah fī jawāz al-istinābah / al-Ṣuyūṭi. Treatise on managing the transfer of judicial authority.
17. fol. 23b-25b: al-Ināfah fī rutbat al-khilāfah / al-Ṣuyūṭi. Traditions about the caliphate.
18. fol. 25b-29a: al-Wadīk fī faḍl al-dīk / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On roosters.
19. fol. 29a-30a: al-Mufākharah bayna al-Rawḍah wa-al-Miqyās wa-Miṣr al-Qāhirah / al-Ṣuyūṭi. An account of a trialogue in which al-Rawḍah, al-Miqyās and Cairo boastfully sing their own praises and excellences.
20. fol. 30a-31b: al-Maqāmah al-miskīyah / al-Ṣuyūṭi. On musk and other perfumes.
21. fol. 31b-32a: al-Maqāmah al-ghālīyah / al-Ṣuyūṭi. Traditions on the toiletry habits of the Prophet, especially dressing his hair.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription by modern hand on covering paper.
Table of contents on fol. 2a (the last work mentioned, al-Maqāmah al-wardīyah, is not in the current collection).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 32 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written in a single hand ; watermarks (bend-in-shield with roman-alphabet letters "GM") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: The copy is not dated.
Incipit: [الثبوت] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الدين اصطفى ورد على سوآل فى قوله ... في دعآء القنوت -- [العجاجة] بسم الله ... مسئلة على بن ابى طالب رخى الله عنه رزق فى الاولاد -- [حصول] بسم الله ... اما بعد فقد سألنى سايل عما ورد فى الاحاديث -- [انابة] بسم الله ... وقع السوآل قد اشتهر ان النبى ... حى في قبره -- [الفانيد] بسم الله ... سئلنى سايل هل روى الامام البو حنيفه عن الامام مالك بن انس -- [نتيجة] بسم الله ... سألت اسرك الله على ما اعتاده -- [منهل] بسم الله ... هذا جزء سميته منهل اللطايف فى الكنافة والقطايف -- [غاية] بسم الله ... وبعد فقد سألنى بعض الاصدقا والاصحاب انى اصنف لهم فى آداب -- [اتحاف] بسم الله ... روى الحافظ ابو محمد الحسن بن محمد الحلال فى كتابه -- [اتمام] بسم الله ... قال ... السيوطى ... هذا جزؤ سميته اتمام العقيان -- [فجر] بسم الله ... مسئله سئل شيخنا العلامة محيى الدين الكافيجى -- [لبس] بسم الله ... هذا جزء لطيف سميته لبس اليلب فى جواب عن ايراد حلب -- [احيا] بسم الله ... هذه ستون حديثا سمنته احيآء الميت بفضائل اهل البيت -- [الظفر] بسم الله ... هذه رسالة سميتها بالطفر بقلم الظفر مرتبة على فاتحة -- [الاجر] بسم الله ... هذا جزؤ جمعت فيه الاحاديث الواردة فى الفزل سمنته الاجر الجزل فى الفزل -- [كشف] بسم الله ... وقع السؤآل كثيرا عن الاستنابة في الوظايف -- [الانافة] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذى اوجد النبى ... وجعل سعادة الدارين -- [الوديك] بسم الله ... وبعد فقد الف الحافظ ابو نعيم الاصفهانى جزا فى فضل الديك -- [المفاخرة] بسم الله ... هذا جزء يسمى المفاخرة بين الروضة والمقياس -- [المقامة المسكية] بسم الله ... حضر امرآء الطيب بين يدى امام فى البلاغة خطيب -- [المقامة الغالية] بسم الله ... قال الخطيب فى تاريخ بغداد اخبرنى عبيد الله بن ابى الفتح
Binding Note
Loose quires wrapped in paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
68

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9a28186a-62db-478e-ade9-eda4dddfe22b/manifest