Item Summary

A short treatise proving the orthodoxy of some of the Zaydite religious and ceremonial practices. With medical, hadith, and poetry extracts.

Descriptive Information

Title
المسائل المرضية في بيان اتفاق اهل السنة على سنن الصلوة والزيدية / تأليف العلامة الشهير محمد بن اسماعيل الامير.
Transliterated Title
al-Masāʼil al-marḍīyah fī bayān ittifāq Ahl al-Sunnah ʻalá sunan al-ṣalāh wa-al-Zaydīyah / taʼlīf al-ʻAllāmah al-shahīr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Amīr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1138H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xd07gt11x
Publisher
[1804]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1804
Extent
8 leaves : paper ; 220 x 163 (192 x 125) mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett collection, no. 1621
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, p. 556
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Poem].
2. fol. 1b-6b: al-Masāʼil al-marḍīyah fī bayān ittifāq Ahl al-Sunnah ʻalá sunan al-ṣalāh wa-al-Zaydīyah.
3. fol. 6b: [Quotations concerning rizq].
4. fol. 7a: [Extract from a medical text]. Begins with "Faṣl fī adwiyah."
5. fol. 7b: Naẓm buzūgh al-hilāl fī al-khiṣāl al-mūjibah lil-ḍilāl / lil-Imām ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī.
6. fol. 7b-8b: [Hadiths].
7. fol. 8b: [Poems].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Physical description: 27 lines per page; written in naskhi in black on beige European glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Fol. 7-8 on different paper.
Origin: Copy completed 16 Ṣafar 1219 H. [27 May 1804] (fol. 6b).
Beg.: ... بسم الله ... اما بعد فالمطلوب من افادة مولانا
Colophon: انتهى زبرهذه النبذة المفىدة المشتملة على الثمان المسائل المجىدة وجواباتها المبرهنة بالبراهىن الحمىدة بعد عصر ىوم الجمعة 16 شهر صفر الخىر عام 1219 والحمد لله رب العالمىن وحسبي الله وکفى وصلى الله على محمد وآله وسلم
Binding Note
Leather spine, covers missing; in paper folder.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
20

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/48e1af95-d3f1-4f3b-8d8b-1834f58c9e27/manifest