Item Summary

The first volume of al-Mujtabá, an abridgment of Kitāb al-Sunan, a collection of traditions by Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Azdī al-Sijistānī.

Descriptive Information

Title
مختصر السنن للامام الحافظ ابي داود سليمان بن الاشعث السجستاني / اختصر عبد العظيم المنذري.
Transliterated Title
Mukhtaṣar al-Sunan lil-Imām al-ḥāfiẓ Abī Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Sijistānī / ikhtaṣara ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm al-Mundhirī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 703H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd217r149k
Publisher
[14th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Format
Manuscript
Extent
170 leaves : paper ; 265 x 193 (175 x 130) mm bound to 260 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1366.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 623.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 412/3.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. The title appears on the edges.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 170 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from XlVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من قال لا اله الا الله من قلبه دخل الجنة ...
Colophon: تم والحمد لله وحده تم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper. Covers in poor condition.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
348

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9890958a-c265-4dff-baaa-6da50d7531c8/manifest