Item Summary

A treatise on ceremonial cleanliness. This is a commentary on the opening chapter of al-Hidāyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
اتحاف ارباب الدراية بفتح الهداية / احمد بن محمد الحنفي.
Transliterated Title
Itḥāf arbāb al-dirāyah bi-fatḥ al-Hidāyah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 841H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwm118128m
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1656-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
16 leaves : paper ; 223 x 163 (153 x 87) mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature Ḥasan al-Jabartī al-Ḥanafī with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1701.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 1066/1656.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 16 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents?) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the latter part of the XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اكمل الدين الحنفي بكمال عنايته ... اما بعد فان احسن الحديث کتاب الله وخير الهدي هدي محمد بن عبد الله ...
Colophon: هذا آخرما انتهى بنا الکلام والحمد لله على الدوام وعلى نبيه افضل الصلاة والسلام وعلى آله واصحابه الکرام ما يکى الغمام ابتسم زهر الکمال حرر ذلك في مستهل ذي القعدة الحرام سنة 1066 على يد محرره الشريف احمد بن محمد الحنفي الحموي غفرالله ذنوبه وسترعيوبه امين ومن خطه الشريف نقلت تم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah
Purity, Ritual—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Stamps
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/72cc18bd-3b26-4dfe-9c30-177050b251ba/manifest