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تفاء لا ذات الشفا في سيرة النبي ثم الخلفا ... [الخ.]
Tafāʼ lā dhāt al-shifā fī sīrat al-Nabī thumma al-khulafā ... [etc.]
1788-1849
A collection of eight works on Islamic history, tales, prayers and traditions.
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Metadata
- Publisher
- 1203-1266 [1788 or 1789-1849 or 1850]
- People
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- Scribe
- Ḥuznī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century
- Ḥaydarī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 19th century
- Kawwá, ʻAbd Allāh, active 19th century
- Related Name
- حزني، عبد القادر بن محمد، active 18th century
- حيدري. عبد الله بن عبد الله، active 19th century
- كوى، عبد الله، active 19th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 223H
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
- Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Caliphs—Biography—Early works to 1800
- Caliphs—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Qurʼanic teaching
- Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
- Islam—Doctrines—Poetry
- Hadith—Texts
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Poetry
- botanical illustrations
- Watermarks
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Item Summary
A collection of eight works on Islamic history, tales, prayers and traditions.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- تفاء لا ذات الشفا في سيرة النبي ثم الخلفا ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Tafāʼ lā dhāt al-shifā fī sīrat al-Nabī thumma al-khulafā ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 223H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xs55mn49g
- Publisher
- 1203-1266 [1788 or 1789-1849 or 1850]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1788-1849
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 125 leaves : paper, illustration ; 211 x 154 (150-175 x 85-115) mm. bound to 210 x 154 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 645, 741, 1515, 1566, 1427, 1430, 1428.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9692; 1476-86.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 238/9.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. (i)b-40b: Tafāʼ lā dhāt al-shifā fī sīrat al-Nabī thumma al-khulafā. An urjūzah on the lives of the Prophet, the four Caliphs and al-Ḥasan. It was dedicated to Muḥammad, ruler of Shīraz, who later became the Ottoman Sultan Bāyazīd I, 792-805 [1389-1402], and was composed on Dhū al-Ḥijjah 25, 798 [Sept. 29, 1396], the third day after the battle of Nicopolis.
- 2. fol. 41a-52b: [Risālat tabṣirah] Urjūzah on what happens to the dead in the grave and what questions are put to them by the two angels Munkar wa-Nakīr.
- 3. fol. 53b: [saying and mnemonic for the abdajī order of the alphabet]
- 4. fol. 54a-75b: [Collection of stories] A collection of stories, mostly fabulous, containing: (1) Ḥikāyat Tamīm al-Dārī and a list of the unlucky days; (2) Ḥadīth Jāyid ibn ʻAyṣ; (3) Qiṣṣat Aṣḥāb al-Kahf; (4) Ḥikāyat al-ʻanqāʼ maʻ Sulaymān; (5) Ḥikāyat Bāyazīd al-Bistā[mī]; (6) Qiṣṣat wāq-wāq; (7) the death of Abraham. Hitti's title: Majmūʻat ḥikāyāt.
- 5. fol. 76a-83b: Hādhā Risālat tabṣirah. An urjūzah on what happens to the dead in the grave and what questions are put to them by the two angels, Munkar and Nakīr.
- 6. fol. 84a-99b: Hādhā Kitāb Naẓm al-farāʼid fī ʻilm al-ʻaqāʼid / taʼlīf Muḥammad al-Nūdahī al-Barzanjī. The articles of the Muslim faith in verse. Text was composed 1250 [1834/5].
- 7. fol. 103a-109b: Majmūʻ fī mathāʼil al-gharībah lil-iḥtiyāj lā lil-qirāʼah. A collection of singular and unusual traditions. After the colophon is a prayer for the dead, a copy of which is to be placed in the hand of the deceased on his burial.
- 8. fol. 110a-117a: Kitāb Ḥadīth arbaʻīn. Collection of 40 hadith. The collection proper ends in the middle of folio 6b. The remaining two folios are also traditions.
- 9. fol. 117b-124b: Hādhā Kitāb Kanz al-akhbār al-wāridah ʻan al-Nabī al-mukhtār. A collection of traditions. On folio after the colophon are a prayer on the torment of the grave and other traditions.
- 10. fol. 125a-125b: [Prayer on the torment of the grave and other traditions] Prayer titled "Ṣ̄alāh ʻadhāb al-qabr" followed by a number of short traditions.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from text (fol. 1b).
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. First work has interlinear notes in Persian. Persian note and botanical illustration (fol. 75b) Inscription on lower pastedown
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 125 ; some catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 7-21 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents; three hats; coat of arms, roman-alphabet letters "AL[?] MASSO" and "AP") ; MS in good condition except for the first few folios which are worm-eaten and stained with dampness.
- Origin: [Dhāt al-shifāʼ and Urjūzah] Copied 1203 by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥuznī ibn Muḥammad Afandī (fol. 52b) -- [Risālat tabṣirah] Copied Friday 1264 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ḥaydarī at Madrasat Mullā Muḥammad al-Bayzhavī (fol. 83b) -- [Naẓm al-farāʼid] Copied Wednesday 1266 by ʻAbd Allāh, known as al-Kawwá at Madrasat Mullā Muḥammad al-Bayzhavī (fol. 99b).
- Incipit: [ذات الشفاء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال محمد هو ابن الجزري الحمد للمهيمن المقتدر -- [رسالة تبصرة 1] في فتنة المقبور حين يسئل وما اتى النبى المرسل -- [مجموعة حکايات] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين والتوفيق هذا حكاية تميم الدارى روى عن ابن عباس رضى الله عنه -- [رسالة تبصرة 2] هذه رسالة تبصرة. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله على الاسلام ... فهذا ارجوزة مفيدة ضمنها فوائدا عديدة في فتنة المقبور حين يسئل وما الى النبى المرسل -- [نظم الفرائد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال فقير من هو الرؤف محمد بن مصطفى معروف الحمد للحقيق بالمحامد ... وبعد ان اشرف المقاصد علم اصول الدين العقائد وكل من شد به يديه -- [مجموع في مثائل] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. هذا مجموع في مثائل الغريبه للاحتياج لا للقرءات واعلم ان ما ذكر في الشعر فيما اذا انفصل في الحيوة واما بعد الموت فهل ينجس الشعر -- [کتاب حديث اربعين] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين قيوم السموات والارضين اما بعد فقد روينا عن على بن ابى طالب وعبد الله بن مسعود -- [کنزالاخبار] هذا کتاب کنزالاخبارالواردة عن النبي المختار ... روى عنه حفص بن محمد عن ابيه وعن جده
- Colophon: [ذات الشفاء] والحمد لله على التمام تم صلواته على السلام على النبي المصطفى المختار واله وصحبه الاخيار -- [رسالة تبصرة 1] قد تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد خادم الفقراء عبد القادر الحزنى بن محمد افندي غفر الله لهما سنة 1203 -- [مجموعة حکايات] الدية امتي امتي يوم القيمة والله اعلم. تمت -- [رسالة تبصرة 2] تمت رسالة تبصرة على يد الحقيرالعباد عبدالله بن عبدالله حيدري في يوم الجمعة بعد الظهر في مدرسة ملا محمد ... اللهم اغفر لي وله ولمن دعا لنا ولابوينا. امين يا رب العالمين سنة 1264 -- [نظم الفرائد] تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب اللهم اجعله مفيدا وثواب [ثوابا] لعبد الله المشهوربالکوى بمدرسة مولانا محمد ... اللهم اغفرلهما ولابويهما بيوم الاربعاء في وقت الضحا [الضحى] سنة الف ومأتين [ومائتين]وستة وستين من هجرة سيد المرسلين -- [مجموع في مثائل] وتوکلت عليك وانت الغفورالرحيم -- [کتاب حديث اربعين] وقال الخنزيرالحمد لله الذي خلقني خنزيرا لا تارك الصلوة من امة محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم. اللهم لا تجعلنا من تارکيها -- [کنزالاخبار] التورات [التوراة] والانجيل والزبوروالفرقان. قرکمال کتبه عبدالله
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
- Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Caliphs—Biography—Early works to 1800
- Caliphs—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Qurʼanic teaching
- Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
- Islam—Doctrines—Poetry
- Hadith—Texts
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Poetry
- botanical illustrations
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 260
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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