Item Summary

A collection of four Hanafite treatises on doctrine and law plus a commentary on a Zaydi doctrinal treatise.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Five Arabic treatises on Islamic law and doctrine].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 224Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4x51hj43c
Publisher
[1708-1712]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1708-1712
Format
Manuscript
Extent
177 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (142 x 95) mm bound to 210 x 158 mm
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1179, 1344, 1806, 2208, 2344
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 179 (VIII); S I, 291.
Murādī, M. K. Silk al-durar, I, 6, lin. 5.
Rights Statement
No Copyright - Contractual Restrictions
Contents
1. fol. iib-36b: Ḍawʼ al-jawāhir al-muʻaddah li-ibānat subul qaṣr al-ṣalāh bi-ṭarīq Juddah / Raḥmat Allāhʹzādah al-Ḥanafī al-Anṣārī. Treatise on the legitimacy of shortening prayers when traveling from Mecca to Jedda.
2. fol. 38b-109a: Qurrat al-ʻayn sharḥ risālat al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Zayn / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammadʹzādah al-Anṣārī al-Ḥanafī. Commentary on Ibn Nujaymʼs Taḥrīr al-maqāl fī masʼalat al-istibdāl, a treatise from his al-Fatāwá al-Zaynīyah.
3. fol. 110b-122a: Risālat al-taqlīd al-murawwiqah al-mutasammīyah bi-al-Murawwiḍah / Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Shaykh Yūsuf al-Abdīnī. Treatise on taqlīd from the Hanafite perspective.
4. fol. 123a-146a: Badīʻ al-maʻānī sharḥ ʻAqīdat al-Shaybānī / al-ʻAllāmah Ibn Qādī ʻAjlūn al-ʻIrāqī.
5. fol. 147b-174b: Sharḥ al-ʻaqīdah allatī allafahā al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh / Abī Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī thumma al-Madanī al-Shāfiʻī.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. erroneously foliated 1-175 beginning on fol. 2a. Record follows erroneous foliation. On front cover: Label reading "Mujammaʻ 5" in Arabic script. Inserted at end of ms.: 8 leaves of blank paper plus one leaf containing part of a commentary on a text on prayer. Leaves between texts have been canceled. Fol. 37, 109b, 146b blank. List of texts by a later hand on verso of front endpaper.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 175 + ix ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Written in naskh in black ink ; rubricated ; MS in excellent condition but some damp staining on first two leaves in upper left corner.
Origin: [Qurrat al-ʻayn] Copied 3 Jumādá al-Thānī 1124 H. [8 July 1712] by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh Badīr al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 109a) -- [Risālat al-taqlīd] Copied Text 3: 16 Jumādá [al-Thānī] 1124 H. [21 July 1712] (fol. 122a) -- [Sharḥ al-ʻaqīdah] Copied towards the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1119 H. [February 1708] (fol. 176 [sic])
Incipit: [ضوء الجواهر] الحمد لله ... قد وقع الاختلاف ... فى مسافر من مکة الى جدة هل هى مسافة سفر ام لا -- [قرة العين] الحمد لله الذى رفع العلماء برفع مقامهم ... وبعد فيقول -- [مروضة] الحمد لله الهادى بتوفيق اقتدا ايمة الهدى -- [بديع المعاني] الحمد لله الذى هدانا لهذا ... وبعد فان اعظم العلوم -- [شرح العقيدة] الحمد لله الذى انعم علينا وهدانا للاسلام
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Nujaym, Zayn al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm -1563—Fatāwá al-Zaynīyah
Shaybānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan approximately 750-804 or 805—ʻAqīdah
Mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh, Ismāʻīl ibn al-Qāsim 1610 or 1611-1676 or 1677—ʻAqīdah al-ṣaḥīḥah
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Zaydīyah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
376

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f1de7299-8e86-465b-ae00-c44edb086d92/manifest