Item Summary

A redaction of the authorʼs own major collection of tradition. This work is otherwise known as al-Mujtabá.

Descriptive Information

Title
السنن الماثورة عن رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم / تأليف ابي عبد الرحمن احمد بن شعيب بن بحر النسائي.
Transliterated Title
al-Sunan al-māthūrah ʻan Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-salam / taʼlīf Abī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shuʻayb ibn Baḥr al-Nisāʼī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 704H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcr494vx144
Publisher
10 Muḥarram 541 [June 29, 1146]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1146
Format
Manuscript
Extent
197 leaves : paper ; 252 x 172 (205 x 127) mm bound to 250 x 178 mm.
Provenance
Dated ownership signature of Muḥammad Amīn?, Damascus (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1367.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, pp. 35-6.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 626.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 398.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1252.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-19a: al-Juzʼ al-awwal
2. fol. 20a-41b: al-Juzʼ al-thānī
3. fol. 42a-61b: al-Juzʼ al-thālith
4. fol. 62b-81a: al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ
5. fol. 83a-101a: al-Juzʼ al-khāmis
6. fol. 102a-120b: al-Juzʼ al-sādis
7. fol. 121a-140a: al-Juzʼ al-sābiʻ
8. fol. 141a-160b: al-Juzʼ al-thāmin
9. fol. 161a-179b: al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ
10. fol. 180a-: al-Juzʼ al-ʻāshir
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Each juzʼ of the MS followed by a number of samāʻ and reading certificates dating from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 197 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23-24 lines per page.
Description: MS is on two kinds of paper and also in two hands ; some paper tinted red ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 10 Muḥarram 541 (fol. 197a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر واعن تأويل قوله عز وجل اذا قمتم الى الصلاة فاغسلوا ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ في عاشر المحرم سنة أحدى واربعين وخمس مائة وهو حامد الله ومصلي على رسوله سيدنا محمد واله وسلم
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped and blind-tooled medallion and decorative border on covers. Flap is unadorned outside and lined with re-used manuscript inside.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Certificates
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
411

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/83495b8d-06c1-4300-9d70-8a86e696a273/manifest