Item Summary

Collection of works on Islamic topics, primarily by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dajānī al-Qushāshī.

Descriptive Information

Title
Majmūʻ yaḥtawī ʻalá aḥad ʻashar risālah lil-Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-M[adanī]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3791Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch415pm74c
Publisher
Muḥarram 1058-1118 [January/February 1648-1706 or 1707]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1648-1706
Format
Manuscript
Extent
227 leaves : paper ; 216 x 160 (164-190 x 84-125) mm.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 522, 2693, 802, 1679, 1840, 1841, 2023, 694, 1785, 1866, 1865, 2752, 2342, 1791.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 506 (no. 15); S II, 520.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2a-48a: Targhīb fī farīd faḍl Allāh al-qarīb al-mujīb. Virtues of various sūrahs and verses. Autograph copy.
2. fol. 49a-59b: Jawāb al-masʼalah li-man fataḥa Allāh ʻayn qalbihi wa-kaḥḥala. Answer to a question concerning a passage in Suhrawardīʼs ʻAwārif al-maʻārif, bāb 28, dealing with khalwah. Autograph copy.
3. fol. 60a-67b: Tabshīr al-sāʼil bi-istikmāl waraʻ al-kāmil. On a tradition in al-Daylamīʼs Musnad al-Firdaws.
4. fol. 70a-87b: Jawāb al-shāfi ʻalá al-suʼāl al-muwāfī. Answers to 4 questions concerning the 4 orthodox schools. Autograph copy.
5. fol. 90a-99a: Ṭarīq al-rashād fī jawāz ziyādat yawm al-Jumʻah wa-laylatihā bi-al-afrād.
6. fol. 100a-114b: Munyat ahl al-waraʻ fī ʻadad man taṣiḥḥu bihim al-jumaʻ.
7. fol. 115a-120a: Qawl al-maʻrūf ʻinda al-mutashābih li-ahl al-wuqūf. Autograph copy.
8. fol. 124a-133a: Ḥujjat al-muhtadīn bi-bushrá al-mukrajmīn.
9. fol. 134a-153b: Tanbīh al-shākirīn bi-dhikr ʻimād al-dīn wa-qurbān al-muttaqīn. Incomplete at end
10. fol. 154a-163a: Kitāb al-Saʻādah bi-tilāwat al-ibdāʼ wa-al-iʻādah.
11. fol. 164a-166b: ʻAqīdah. Probably identical with his Manẓūmah fī al-tawḥīd.
12 fol. 167a-167b: al-Jawāb al-shāfi ʻalá al-suʼāl al-khāfī / Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī. Incomplete at end.
13. fol. 168a-189b: Īqāẓ al-qawābil lil-taqarrub bi-al-nawāfil.
14. fol. 190a-204a: Targhīb al-rāghib fī muḍāʻafat al-wāhib.
15. fol. 204b-205a: Jawāb li-...Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Madanī.
16. fol. 206a-227a: Mansak al-nāsik li-afḍal al-ḥajj wa-al-manāsik. Commentary on two verses of Ibn al-ʻArabī.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from label on case.
Table of contents (fol. 1b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 227 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23-31 lines per page.
Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; overlining in red.
Origin: [al-Targhīb fī farīd] Copied Jumādá I, 1070 by the author -- [Jawāb al-masʼalah] Copied Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1063 by the author -- [al-Jawāb al-shāfi] Copied Muḥarram 1058 by the author - [Ṭarīq al-rashād] Copied Rajab 1062 -- [Tanbīh al-shākirīn] Copied Jumādá I, 1058 -- [ʻAqīdah] Copied 1118 -- [Īqāẓ al-qawābil] Copied Ramaḍān 1079.
Incipit: [الترغيب في فريد] وبسمك اللهم ... وبعد فهذه رسالة اذکر فيها فضل بعض السور -- [جواب المسألة] الحمد لله القارن العسر باليسر ... وبعد مسئلة سأل بعض طلاب الحق عن قول -- [تبشير السائل] الحمد لله مفتاح عبده بما لا سبيل له الى ذلك -- [الجواب الشافى] الحمد لله الهادى من الضلالة ... وبعد فقد ورد علينا سؤال من بعض السادة الزيدية -- [طارق الرشاد] الحمد لله الهادى الى سبيل الرشاد -- [منية] الحمد لله الذى جمع شملنا -- [القول المعروف] الحمد لله ... وبعد فاعتصام بدلائل الکتاب والسنة
Incipit (continued): [حجة المهتدين] الحمد لله الممتن على هذه الامة ... اما بعد فهذه نبذة من الاحاديث ... وجعلتها خاصة بذکر المبشرين بالجنة -- [تنبيه الشاكرين] الحمد لله جاعل الملائکة رسلا ... وبعد فاعلم ... ان الصلاة مختارة الله -- [ترغيب الراغب] الحمد لله الهادى ... وبعد فهذه ترجمة بجواب عن موجب سؤال ... تنضمن ذکر النوع الثانى من الاستطاعة الى الحج وهى الاستطاعة بالغير -- [منسك الناسك] الحمد لله مبرز الکائنات -- [كتاب السعادة] الحمد لله الذى اوجد الاسماء بوجوده -- [عقيدة] قال الفقير المدنى احمد * اضعف عبد فى العبيد يشهد -- [انقاظ] الحمد لله ... أما بعد فقد قال الله تعالى يا ايها الذين آمنوا
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. In matching case.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Islam—Rituals—Early works to 1800
Jumʻah—Early works to 1800
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages—Saudi Arabia—Mecca—Early works to 1800
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages—Law and legislation—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad 1145-1234—ʻAwārif al-maʻārif
Ibn al-ʻArabī 1165-1240
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
466

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/14b6a4ee-a09f-40a5-9773-fc3d313f87d1/manifest