Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
الوصايا القدسية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Waṣāyā al-qudsīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4067Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9306td033
Publisher
1594.
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1594
Format
Manuscript
Extent
150 leaves : paper ; 208 x 125 (160-168 x 76-88) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2330, 2373, 2814, 2967.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 265 (5: no. 1); S II, 285.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-28a: Waṣāyā al-qudsīyah.
2. fol. 31b-60b: ʻIshrah al-kāmilah li-jamʻ al-fawāʼid al-shāmilah. Divided into muqaddimah and nine faṣl.
3. fol. 102b-126b: Muʻṭī al-fawāʼid. Commentary on his ʻaqīdah, the text of which is found on fol. 61b.
4. fol. 139b-150a: Kanz al-makhfī. On the mysteries of kalimat al-shahādah; the author states in the preface (fol. 139b) that the composition of the treatise was motivated by a dream which he had in the night of 23 Rabīʻ I, 936.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Layout: 17-25 lines per page.
Origin: [al-ʻIshrah al-kāmilah] Copied Rajab 1002 from the autograph -- [Muʻṭī al-fawāʼid] Copied Rajab 1002 -- [al-Kanz al-makhfī] Copied Rajab 1002.
Incipit: [الوصايا القدسية] اما بعد حمد الله ... فهذه وصىة لاصحابى واولادى الذىن تابوا -- [العشرة الكاملة] الحمد لله الذى فضلنه على کثىر من عباده -- [معطي الفوائد] الحمد لله الذى اخرج عباده من الظلمات -- [الكنز المخفى] الحمد لله الذى اصطفى حزبا من العباد

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Wills, Ethical—Early works to 1800
Aḥmadī, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá active 1529—Munjī al-ʻaqāʼid
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
228

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
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