Item Summary

Collection of fragmentary texts on Islamic law and other topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Commentary on Alfīyat al-ḥadīth] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 369L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc44558s622
Publisher
[1342-18th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1342-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
201 leaves : paper ; 211 x 152 (133-170 x 90-117) mm bound to 218 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-14b: [Commentary on Alfīyat al-ḥadīth]. Commentary on al-ʻIrāqī's versification of Kitāb ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth, a work on the science of traditions by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī.
2. fol. 15a-19b: [Treatise on prayer and worship]
3. fol. 20a-27b: [Treatise on Islamic law]. Covers the topics divorce, al-kaffārah, the four pillars, etc.
4. fol. 28a-35b, 40a-49b: [Treatise on Arabic grammar]
5. fol. 36a-39b: [Commentary on a work of Shafiite law]
6. fol. 50a-190b: [Miscellany] Fragmentary treatises on nikāḥ, ʻilm al-naḥw wa-al-ṣarf, commentary on the Qurʼan and Islamic law on testimony and claims.
7. fol. 191a-201b: al-Mustaṣfá / [ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī]. Commentary on al-Fiqh al-nāfiʻ by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Samarqandī.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "276 KE". Folios 139-140 bound upside-down.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 201 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-27 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; paper varies, some watermarked (crown; grapes; three crescents; crown-star-crescent; other unidentified) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [al-Mustaṣfá] Copy completed Friday 21 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 742 by Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Bukhārī (fol. 201b).
Beginning: [1أ] ... مجهول عين له روا فقط ... ش اختلف العلماء في قبول رواية المجهول وهو على ثلاثه اقسام ... -- [15أ] ... فالحسن الحاصل للماموريه من قل؟ اشتراط القدرة الممكنه للمكلف من الادراء ولا شك فى حسنه ... --[20أ] ... خال عن التطليق فكما سكت وجد والخلاف فيما اذا لم ينواحدها ... -- [28أ] المعاني وتميزها اعتنا بشان الحكم علة لقوله مبالغة فهو علة للعلة ولا يجوز ان يكون مفعولا له ... -- [36أ] بجوز الاتيان بها في اول الكلام ويستحب الاتيان بها في الخطب والمكاتيات اقتداء برسول الله ... -- [191أ] ... الى سفل آخر بل ىسلم الاخرة فى كل ساعة بقدما يستوفى من العلم وفيه ...
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding brown leather and dark paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
ʻIrāqī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn 1325-1404—Alfīyat al-ʻIrāqī
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf -1160 or 1161—Fiqh al-nāfiʻ
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
410

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1cd6b6b3-2091-45fc-ad18-e8583790c777/manifest