Item Summary

A treatise about the chain of transmitters as cited in the six canonical books of tradition and those of the four Imāms.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه اسانيد الكتب الستة واسانيد الايمة الاربعة / للامام الكبير احمد الدردير.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Asānīd al-kutub al-sittah wa-asānīd al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah / lil-Imām al-Kabīr Aḥmad al-Dardīr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 774H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm039kh16w
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
19 leaves : paper ; 224 x 158 (150 x 90) mm bound to 226 x 161 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1471.
Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 147.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied by ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Mallawī (fol. 19a). MS from XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي تفرد بوجوب الوجود والقدم ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير المعترف بالتقصير احمد بن محمد بن احمد ... الشهير بالدردير قد طلب مني الفاضل النحرير العلم الشهير ...
Colophon: تمت غفرالله لکاتبها الفقير عبدالکريم الملوي ولکل المسلمين اجمعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
48

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/310c3c0f-1e85-4b9e-a14b-a2be3755eb2c/manifest