Item Summary

A collection of traditions on asceticism.

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب الزهد.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Zuhd.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 746H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7m01bx74j
Publisher
16 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 531 [January 18, 1137?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1137
Format
Manuscript
Extent
106 leaves : paper ; 220 x 153 (185-190 x 130) mm bound to 220 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1419.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 237; V, p. 91.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 106a).
A few marginal notes. On eight folios before the first is a collection of traditions entitled Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn fī al-ḥadīth compiled by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī. Immediately after the colophon are several notes about the reading of the work, one of which is dated 14 Rajab 521 in Nīsābūr though the copy was made 531 H. MS is incomplete at the beginning.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 106 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 22 lines per page.
Description: Lacks some iʻjām diacritic marks ; MS in fair condition; mended. Upper half of folio between 1 and 2 is missing. Evidently unique.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 16 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 531 by its owner ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd ...ibn Manṣūr Qays ibn ʻAylān ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār (fol. 106a).
Incipit:[قال ... الجنة ... باب ثمر الجنة
Colophon: تم کتاب الزهد بحمد الله ومنّه وکان الفراغ منه يوم الثلثاء صلاة الظهرسادس عشرربيع الاخرمن سنة احد[ى] وثلثين وخمسمائة کتبه صاحبه عبد الوهّاب بن عبدالله ... بن منصور ابن قيس بن عيلان بن مضر بن نزار وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم تسليما. نفعه الله بالعلم وغفرله ولجميع المسلمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Binding badly worn; flap and upper cover missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Asceticism—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
220

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/67e82026-0520-41a5-8421-0706a9eb6ecc/manifest