Item Summary

Collection contains five treatises on the fundamental Islamic rituals by Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī, plus four additional texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه المجموعة محتوية على خمسة رسالة اثنى عشرية في ستة عبادات من العبادات الشرعية ... / من تصانيف الحبر الفاضل والنحرير الكامل زين العلماء الرباني بهاء الملة والدين العاملي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi al-majmūʻah muḥtawiyah ʻalá khamsat risālah ithná ʻasharīyah fī sittat ʻibādāt min al-ʻibādāt al-sharʻīyah ... / min taṣānīf al-ḥabr al-fāḍil wa-al-niḥrīr al-kāmil zayn al-ʻulamāʼ al-rabbānī Bahāʼ al-Millah wa-al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 530
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2514np100
Publisher
[1838-1839?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1838-1839
Format
Manuscript
Extent
138 leaves : paper ; 214 x 153 (142 x 88) mm bound to 214 x 158 mm
Provenance
Smudged owner's stamp on leaves 1a, 137b.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 384, 386, 387, 388, 389, 638, 726.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 597 (no. 18-19); SIII, 1301 (no. 43-46)
Āghā Buzurg, Dharīʻah (1936-), XXII, 259, no. 6959; XXIII, 159, no. 8490.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1b-21b: [al-Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṭahārah] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on ritual purity.
2. leaves 22b-49a: [al-Ithná ʻasharīyah fī wājibāt al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on ritual prayer.
3. leaves 50b-65a: al-Ithná ʻasharīyah al-ṣawmīyah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on fasting.
4. leaves 66b-79a: [al-Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ḥajj] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on the rites of pilgrimage to Mecca.
5. leaves 80b-89b: [al-Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-zakāh wa-al-khums] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on zakat and khums.
6. leaves 89b-90a: Fī al-ḥadīth "al-ḥummām yawm wa-yawm lā yukthiru al-luḥam".
7. leaves 90b-130a: [Manāsik al-ḥajj] / Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī. Treatise on the rites of pilgrimage to Mecca.
8. leaves 131a-135b: [Maṭlab 12 from Minhāj al-ḥaqq wa-al-yaqīn] / Walī Allāh ibn Niʻmat Allāh al-Ḥāʼirī. Extract from Minhāj al-ḥaqq wa-al-yaqīn, a work establishing the superiority of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
9. leaves 136a-137b: Fī al-zakāh. Anonymous extract in four fuṣūl; text breaks off in the middle of the third faṣl.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Collective title from leaf 1a.
Marginal notes.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; leaf 18 detached, marginal damp staining.
Origin: Texts 1-2, 29 Ramaḍān 1254 [16 December 1838] (leaf 49a). Texts 3-5, 9 Shawwāl 1254 [26 December 1838] (leaf 89b). Texts 6-9 likely completed soon after.
Incipit: [الاثنى عشرية في الطهارة] اما بعد حمدا لله ... هذه رسالة اثنا عشرية تتلو عليك مسائل الطهارة -- [الاثنى عشرية في واجبات] الحمد لله الذي وفقنا للاهتداء بشعرية اشرف المرسلين -- [الاثنى عشرية الصومية] الحمد لله الذي جعل الصوم جنة من النار -- [الاثنى عشرية في الحج] الحمد لله على الائه والصلوة على اشرف انبيائه واوليائه و بعد فيقول ... قبل ان يخرج الامر من يده هذه رسالة اثنى عشرية يتلو عليك مناسك حج التمتع -- [الاثنى عشرية في الزكوة] حمدا لك اللهم على جمىل آلائك و جزيل نعمائك -- [مناسك الحج] الحمد لله الذي فرض حج البيت على من استطاع اليه سبيلا ... فهذه نبذة من الکلام في فقه الحج الى بيت الله الحرام
Binding Note
Limp black leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fasts and feasts—Islam—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Commentaries
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages—Saudi Arabia—Mecca—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Purity, Ritual—Islam—Early works to 1800
Ramadan—Early works to 1800
Salat—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah
Taxation (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Zakat
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
143

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f0912623-7051-42b3-ab08-61730337670e/manifest