Item Summary

A commentary on al-Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
المنهج المبين في شرح الاربعين.
Transliterated Title
al-Manhaj al-mubīn fī sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 749H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfb494m45x
Publisher
4 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1067 [August 14, 1657?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1657
Format
Manuscript
Extent
120 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (160 x 105) mm bound to 208 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1432.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 240, VI, p. 222.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 432.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 2b).
Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions on preliminary leaf (names of officials circa 1742) and folio 1a (names and a short sermon). Several fawāʼid immediately after colophon and on seven following folios; several are dated 1154 or 1155. They include: a short prayer/sermon; explication of hadith; short text captioned: Maʻná al-ḥifẓ hunā an yunquluhā ilá al-Muslimīn; text about a hadith of ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbbās; text beginning: istaghfar Allāh, istaghfar Allāh, istaghfar Allāh al-ʻaẓīm, dated 1154; Ḥikāyah Ibrāhīm Adʹham; and Sharḥ Kāfiyah of al-Iṣfihīdī[?].
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 120 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent; three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 4 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1067 by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī (fol. 113b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد االه وصحبه قال شيخنا وسيدنا الامام العامل العالم ... الحمد لله الذي اظهر السنة وانارها ودحض البدعة وابازها وجعل اهل الحديث والعلم ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخ هذه النسخة في يوم الخميس المبارك في رابع يوم من شهر القعدة سنة 1067 سبعين [سبع] وستين والف على يد العبد المذنب الحقير مصطفى بن علي بن محمد المالکي غفرالله له ولوالديه وللمومنين والمومنات بجاه سيدنا ومولانا محمد عليه افضل الصلاة وازکى السلام وعلى آله واصحابه وازواجه وذريته اجمعين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. ورضي الله تعالى عن اصحابه الکرام ومن تبعهم واهتدى بهديهم
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and tan paper. Pink paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nawawī 1233-1277—Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
254

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c87b1037-237b-4c1c-8f86-c547580d0fee/manifest