Item Summary

Collection of texts on Shiʻite ritual and doctrine.

Descriptive Information

Title
رساله نماز جمعه و غيره.
Transliterated Title
Risālah-i namāz-i Jumʻah va ghayruh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1308
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1j92gb08z
Publisher
[16--]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600
Format
Manuscript
Extent
129 leaves : paper ; 196 x 104 (136-145 x 55-67) mm bound to 197 x 107 mm.
Provenance
On leaf 3a, two owners' stamps, an owner's note, and stamp of the Kitābkhānah-i Majd al-Dīn.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 384, 829, 1056.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 208 (no. 23); SII, 597 (no. 19).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1b-2b: [Verses and prayers].
2. leaves 3b-10b: Risālah fī bayān ḥaqīqat al-ṣawm / Ḥasan ʻAlī. Treatise on fasting.
3. leaves 11b-18b: Risālah-i ḥajjīyah / Ḥasan ʻAlī. Treatise on ḥajj rituals.
4. leaf 19a: [Ḥadīth].
5. leaves 19b-32b: al-Ithnā ʻasharīyah al-ṣawmīyah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on fasting.
6. leaves 35b-74b: Risālah dar wujūb ʻaynī namāz Jumʻah / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Muʼmin al-Sabzawārī. Treatise on the Friday prayer.
7. leaves 75b-96b: Risālah dar maʻrifat-i mavāqīt-i layl va nahār / Humām al-Ṭabīb. Treatise on timekeeping for ritual prayers. With charts and diagrams.
8. leaves 97b-128a: Kitāb Nahj al-mustarshidīn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī. Treatise on Shiʻite doctrine.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from leaf 3a.
Marginal notes.
Layout: 18-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated.
Origin: Text 5, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1042 H [May 1633] (leaf 32b). Text 7, Jumādá II 1064 H [April-May 1654] (leaf 96b). Text 8, Rabī II 1064 H [February-March 1654] (leaf 128a). Text 6 likely completed the same year as texts 7-8. Remaining texts likely 17th century.
Incipit: [رسالة في بيان] الحمد لله حق حمده ... و بعد فهذه رسالة في بيان -- [رساله حجية] الحمد لله ... و بعد بدانکه حج اسلام واجب ميشود بر کسى که بالغ عاقل حر مستطيع باشد -- [الاثنى عشرية الصومية] الحمد لله الذي جعل الصوم جنة من النار -- [رسالة في صلوة الجمعة] الحمد لله الذي فرض على عباده المؤمنين السعي الى ذکره -- [رساله در معرفت مواقيت] سپاس و ستايش بى حد و حمد و مدح بى عد حضرت صانعى را -- [كتاب نهج المسترشدين] الحمد لله المنقذ من الحيرة و الضلال
Binding Note
Limp red leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fasting—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Fasts and feasts—Islam—Early works to 1800
Jumʻah—Early works to 1800
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages—Saudi Arabia—Mecca—Early works to 1800
Salat—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Rituals—Early works to 1800
Timekeeping—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
144

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/72156a30-4ab8-4eca-97f3-37e8ac12c644/manifest