Descriptive Information

Title

[رسالة في الصلوة] ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

[Risālah fī al-ṣalāh] ... [etc.].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 638

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9z903247b

Publisher

[between 1775 and 1825]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1775-1825

Format

Manuscript

Extent

166 leaves : paper ; 220 x 168 (170 x 98) mm bound to 220 x 171 mm

References

Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 483, 1035, 1257, 1260, 1278

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. leaves 1b-37b: [Risālah fī al-ṣalāh]. Shiʻite treatise on ritual prayer; incomplete at beginning. The work, preceded by a dogmatic introduction, is divided into 17 maqṣid, of which the last is Fī ṣalāt al-musāfir.

2. leaf 38a: [Poetry].

3. leaves 38b-74a: Fī al-ʻibādāt al-mālīyah. Shiʻite treatise on obligatory alms. According to Mach and Orsmby, the author is perhaps Jaʻfar ibn Khaḍir al-Janājī.

4. leaves 74b-75b: [Poetry].

5. leaves 76a-108a: al-Ṣiyāmīyah. Shiʻite treatise on fasting. According to Mach and Orsmby, the author is perhaps Jaʻfar ibn Khaḍir al-Janājī.

6. leaves 109a-134b: Kashf al-iltibās. Shiʻite treatise on menstruation.

7. leaves 135a-166a: Risālah fī al-amwāt wa-mā yatbaʻuhā / Jaʻfar ibn Khaḍir al-Janājī. Shiʻite treatise on funeral rites.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from text 1.

Physical description: 17-21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords and a few marginal notes. Damp-stained and a few repairs.

Origin: Late 18th or early 19th century. All texts copied by Muḥammad (leaves 37b, 74a, etc.).

Incipit: [في العبادات المالية] الحمد لله الذي افاض نور الوجود من ظلم العدم ... اما بعد فهذه مما حضرني من المسائل الشرعية المتعلقة بالعبادات المالية -- [الصيامية] الحمد لله الذي خلق الانام و اوضح لهم مبهمات الاحکام ... کتاب الصيام و فيه مباحث الاول في فضله -- [كشف الالتباس] الحمد لله الذي کشف عن الابصار حجاب الظلام -- [رسالة في الاموات] الحمد لله على ما انعم ... و بعد فانه قد کثر على الالحاح من بعض اهل التقوى و الصلاح ان اکتب رسالة فى احکام الجنائز

Binding Note

Limp black leather; spine repaired.

Discovery Information

Subject

Burial—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Fasting—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies—Early works to 1800

Menstruation—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800

Salat—Early works to 1800

Shīʻah—Early works to 1800

Taxation (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800

Zakat—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

177

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bc9f6f48-83db-4cba-b361-46c585f9774b/manifest

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