Item Summary

Collection of Shiʻite texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
[رسالة في حجية خبر الواحد والاجماع] ... [الخ]
Transliterated Title
[Risālah fī ḥujjīyat khabar al-wāḥid wa-al-ijmāʻ] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 519
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8049g766k
Publisher
[1564 or 1565-1694]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1564-1694
Format
Manuscript
Extent
87 leaves : paper ; 172-180 x 92-114 (108-123 x 49-58) mm bound to 180 x 118 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 1076, 1216, 968.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 282 (no. 11); SII, 307.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2(bis)b-36a: [Risālah fī ḥujjīyat khabar al-wāḥid wa-al-ijmāʻ] / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sarāb. Treatise on the solitary ḥadīth and legal consensus as sources of law; holograph.
2. fol. 36b-38b: [Risālah fī al-ijmāʻ]. Treatise on legal consensus.
3. fol. 39a-53b: [Persian treatise on ṣalāh]. Incomplete at beginning and end; consists of at least three fuṣūl.
4. fol. 54a-58a: [Arabic treatise of advice and admonishments]. Incomplete at beginning.
5. fol. 58a-58b: Namāz-i sāʻat-i ghaflat. In Persian.
6. fol. 59a-61b: Manqūl min Kitāb Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah / min taṣānīf ... Aḥmad al-Aradabīlī. In Persian.
7. fol. 63b-83b: [al-Risālah al-qadīmah fī ithbāt al-wājib] / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī. Treatise on proving the existence of God.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Layout: 15-21 lines per page.
Description: Written in nastaʻlīq and general script ; ragged edges and mild staining, some later pages are somewhat smudged.
Origin: Text 1 completed in Ramaḍān 1105 [April-May 1694], by the author (leaf 36a); text 2 likely completed around the same time. Text 4 completed on 20 Rabīʻ I 1093 [29 March 1682] (leaf 58a); texts 3, 5, 6 likely completed around the same time. Text 7 completed in 972 [1564 or 1565] in Mashhad Imām al-Ḥusayn [Karbalāʼ], by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Māzandarānī (leaf 83b).
Incipit: [رسالة في حجية خبر] الحمد لله الذي شرفنا باحسن الملل والاديان وفضلنا -- [رسالة في الاجماع] اعلم ان الاجماع الذي يدعي اصحابنا -- [رسالة القديمة] اعلم ان البراهين المؤدية الى هذا المطلب متحضرة في مسلكين
Binding Note
Limp black leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Salat—Early works to 1800
Shīʿah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Hadith (Shiites)—Evidences, authority, etc—Early works to 1800
Ijmāʻ (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Metaphysics—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
94

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7171f89e-1cc4-4d0d-8d6c-20bf8a2ccd63/manifest