Item Summary

Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad [ibn al-Ḥaddād] al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثاني من كتاب حلية الاوليا وطبقة الاصفيا / تصنيف الشيخ الحافظ ابي نعيم احمد بن عبد الله بن احمد الاصبهاني رحمه الله.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ wa-ṭabaqat al-aṣfiyāʼ / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-ḥāfiẓ Abī Nuʻaym Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣbahānī raḥimahu Allāh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 205H(ii)
Identifier
ark:/88435/2n49tb22p
Publisher
27 Shawwāl 595 [August 22, 1199]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1199
Format
Manuscript
Extent
288 leaves : paper ; 250 x 160 (195 x 125) mm. bound to 250 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements and one seal impression on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥusaynī, one in the name of Ismāʻīl Ibn al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ibn Tājah. Reading statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn ... ibn ʻAbbās ibn Ḥabīb on fol. 288b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 670
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b. Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 288 ; catchwords ; quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements ; rubricated.
Paper: Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 [Aug. 22, 1199] by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).
Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى [م]توطين الصفه ونزولها.
Explicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... [286ب] ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufis—Biography—Early works to 1800
Muslim saints—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Biographies
Leather doublures
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps
Autographs
Certificates

Physical Characteristics

File Count
584

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/2a2015d6-35b1-4595-a617-0196a63530fd/manifest