Item Summary

The second volume of a work on Hanbalite law and jurisprudence, otherwise known as al-Kāfī fī furūʻ al-Ḥanbalīyah. This volume begins with the chapter on al-fidyah and ends with that on al-hibah.

Descriptive Information

Title
المجلد الثاني من كتاب الكافي في الفقه / تأليف موفق الدين ابي محمد عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد بن قد[آمة].
Transliterated Title
al-Mujallad al-thānī min Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-fiqh / taʼlīf Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qud[āmah].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 904H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc41687v94b
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Extent
267 leaves : paper ; 218 x 155 (155 x 108) mm bound to 214 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1843.
Kutubī, Fawāt al- Wafayāt (1283 AH), I, p. 260.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 22.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1104.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. The first folio is defective. Note that the text was studied by Muḥammad ibn [..] al-Jaʻfarī (fol. 1a and following the colophon).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 267 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: MS in fair condition; mended.
Origin: Probably from the XlVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم باب الفدية من حلق رأسه وهو محرم فعليه ...
Colophon: يتلوه ان شاء الله تعالى في المجلد الثالث کتاب الوصايا ... والحمد لله وحده
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Possibly a type II binding with missing flap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
526

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3d131726-0936-473a-97a2-f64805e46ae9/manifest