Item Summary

Collection of texts on inheritance law along with a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's arithmetical treatise, Nuzʹhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār. Note in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 136b.

Descriptive Information

Title
باب مسائل المتعلقة بالولاء ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Bāb masāʼil al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-wilāʼ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 857
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/j3860735d
Publisher
[17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
ii, 142 leaves : paper, ill. ; 206 x 154 (165-173 x 90-105) mm.
References
Mach, R. and Ormsby, E. L. Handlist, 184, 395, 532, 653, 859, 966.
Contents
1. fol. 1b-35a: Bāb masāʼil al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-wilāʼ. On Islamic inheritance law, likely an extract from a larger work.
2. fol. 35a-42b: Risālat al-mūṣá la-hu. On Islamic inheritance law.
3. fol. 42b-58b: Faṣl fī ʻamal al-munāsakhah bi-al-jadwal wa-yusammá al-Shubbāk aydan. On Islamic inheritance law, likely an extract from a larger work.
4. fol. 58b-67b: Jāmiʻ al-aḥkām fī aṣnāf dhawī al-arḥām. On Islamic inheritance law.
5. fol. 67b-69a: Risālah imtiḥānīyah. Concerning Islamic inheritance law.
6. fol. 69b: [Hadith quoted from Sharḥ Mashāriq al-anwār].
7. fol. 71b-136a: [Sharḥ Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār]. Anonymous commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's arithmetical treatise, Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār.
8. fol. 137b-141a: [Manẓūmah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Zayd]. Poem on inheritance law according to the Zaydī school.
9. fol. 141b-142a: Bab ul-ebyat li-ahval il-erbain. Poem on inheritance law in Ottoman Turkish.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Some marginal notes. Numerous charts and diagrams.
Layout: 17-25 lines per page; texts 8-9 in two columns.
Description: Written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Some dampstaining and foxing; fol. 136 partially torn away. Ms. appears to have been written by a single hand with the exception of texts 8-9 which appear to be later additions. Fol. 70a-71a, 137a, 142b blank.
Incipit: [باب مسائل] باب مسائل متعلقة بالولاء و طريق معرفة تصحيح هذه المسائل ان تنظر -- [رسالة الموصى له] الحمد لله ... اعلم اذا هلك هالك و ترك امّه زينب و زوجته -- [فصل في عمل] اعلم ان الکلام فى تفاصيل احوال المناسخة -- [جامع الاحكام] باب مسائل متعلقة بالولاء و طريق معرفة تصحيح هذه المسائل ان تنظر -- [شرح نزهة] الحمد لله الذى لا يحصى نعمه جميع الحساب ... هذا حل لطيف -- [منظومة في علم الفرائض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم *** و به نستعين على الکافر الهزيم

Physical Characteristics

File Count
288

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2628b4d0-5810-429b-8de1-66d8f42163d6/manifest