Item Summary

A commentary on Shamāʼil al-Nabī.

Descriptive Information

Title
اشرف الوسايل الى فهم الشمايل / تأليف شهاب الدين احمد بن علي بن حجر الهيثمي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Ashraf al-wasāyil ilá fahm al-Shamāyil / taʼlīf Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 741H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2r36v8560
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
194 leaves : paper ; 217 x 154 (155 x 97) mm bound to 206 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī al-Islāmbūlī (fol. 1a), Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Rajī?, ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, Faḍl Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Aṭwī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Thīrī? al-shahīr bi-Zaynīʹzādah, and Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī al-Islāmbūlī dated 1262 (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 631.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 70.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 267/8.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 136.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
A few marginal notes. On the folio before the title page is a table of contents of al-Shamāʼil. In the opening words and in the colophon the author states that he composed the work in Makkah in Ramaḍān 949.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 194 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in fair condition, slightly stained with dampness, worm-eaten.
Origin: Probably XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فهذه عجالة علقتها على مشکل شمائل الامام ... الترمذي
Colophon: قال مولفه رضي الله عنه ورحمه واعاد علينا من برکاته وافق الفراغ منه ثامن عشر رمضان المعظم سنة تسع واربعين وتسعمائة بعد عصر الجمعة تجاه الکعبة المشرفة بالمسجد الحرام وکان الابتداء فيه ثالث رمضان المذکور من السنة المذکورة ختمها الله بخير وادام ذلك علي الى ان اموت على الاسلام وافوز برضاه على الدوام انه على کل شي قدير وبالاجابة جدير والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبي بعده محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Flap missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá -892—Shamāʼil
Muḥammad Prophet -632
Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
400

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2374a631-1dd4-467e-8286-afb4d91e6382/manifest