Item Summary

A commentary on aḥādīth al-arbaʻīn, a collection containing twenty-nine traditions. The work is otherwise known as Kashf astār jawāhir al-ḥikam al-mustakhrajah al-mawrūthah min jawāmiʻ al-kalim min shurūḥ aḥādīth al-arbaʻīn.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الاربعين / تصنيف صدر الدين القونوي.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-arbaʻīn / taṣnīf Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 756H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcth83m9574
Publisher
Dimashq, al-Shām, 29 Ramaḍān 1114 [February 16, 1703?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1703
Format
Manuscript
Extent
48 leaves : paper ; 218 x 160 (170 x 110) mm bound to 218 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1429.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 174; IV, p. 32; V, p. 199.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1471-5.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1745.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. It is stated in the beginning that the author was the pupil of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʻArabī 560-638/1165-1240. On the title page are two references to Miftāḥ al-ghayb by the author, and al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah by Ibn ʻArabī, and a note that there are 11 quires in the manuscript.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 48 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Entries in green ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 29 Ramaḍān 1114 in Damascus, Syria by Qāsim ibn Saʻīd ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUbayd ibn Ḍalīʻ ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dakālī al-Marrākushī al-Dandūnī (fol. 48b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله ... الحمد لله الذي زين سماء الملة الحنفية بنجوم الاحكام المشرعية ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من هذا الکتاب المبارك يوم السبت التاسع والعشرون [العشرين] من رمضان المعظم وذلك بدمشق الشام حرسها الله وحفظها من کل سوء بمجاورة جامع الاموي بمدرسة الشيخ عبدالرحمان ... في سنة اربعة عشر بعد المائة والف سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك اشهد ان لا اله [الا] انت استغفر واتوب اليك وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Yellow paper on covers, paper with a block-pressed gilt floral design on flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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