Item Summary

A treatise on technicalities of posture in prayer according to the Ḥanafite school.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه رسالة دمشقية في ترك رفع اليدين عند الركوع وعند رفع الرأس منه / عمله ابو حنيف [امير كاتب] بن امير عمر العميد المدعوا بقوام الفارابي الاتقاني.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Risālah Dimashqīyah fī tark rafʻ al-yadayn ʻinda al-rukūʻ wa-ʻinda rafʻ al-raʼs minhu / ʻamalahu Abū Ḥanīf [Amīr Kātib] ibn Amīr ʻUmar al-ʻAmīd al-madʻū bi-Qawām al-Fārābī al-Itqānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 931H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg732dn490
Publisher
Dimashq, 14 al-Muḥarram 766 [October 19, 1364]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1364
Format
Manuscript
Extent
14 leaves : paper ; 184 x 136 (135 x 115) mm bound to 184 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1723.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 404/5.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1839, 2027.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Contains a short treatise by the author against certain heresies, entitled Risālat raddādat al-bidaʻ (fol.13b-14b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 13 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-18 lines per page.
Description: MS in good condition, stained with dampness.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 14 al-Muḥarram 766 in Damascus by Aḥmad ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Khawājah Ḥājjī al-Kurādī al-Hādī (fol. 13b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على نعمايه الصلوة على رسوله محمد ... وبعد يقول العبد الضعيف قوام الدين امير كاتب بن امير عمر العميد القارابى الاتقانى ... تشرفت في دمشق المحروسة ...
Colophon: نقله لنفسه احمد بن يعقوب بن اسحق بن خواجه حاجى الکرادي الهادي من خط المصنف في يوم الجمعه رابع عشرمن شهرالمحرم سنة ست وستين وسبعمائة بدمشق المحروسة بالخانقاه الشميصاطية رحم الله واقفها والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين امين
Binding Note
Later limp covering in dark blue paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islamic heresies—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

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