Item Summary

A collection of judicial decisions according to Hanafite law compiled by the authorʼs grandson, Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shalabī, 1010 [1601/2], from works on jurisprudence by the author.

Descriptive Information

Title
فتاوي / احمد بن يونس الحنفي الشهير بابن الشلبي.
Transliterated Title
Fatāwá / Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḥanafī al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Shalabī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 858H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5t34sw91n
Publisher
10[5]6 [1646 or 1647?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1646
Format
Manuscript
Extent
iv, 215 leaves : paper ; 184 x 135 (125 x 97) mm bound to 186 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb .. dated 1184; purchased by Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad ibn .. Yaʻqūb dated 1206 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1738.
Ḥājji Khalīfah IV, p. 350.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 10.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1888.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. The copyist is a great-grandson of the author. Additions on preliminary leaves.
Collation: Paper ; fol. IV + 215 + ii (later paper) ; catchwords ; foliation in red using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Entries in red, green, and indigo ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten. MS is rare.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 10[5]6 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḥanafī, known as Ibn al-Shalabī. (fol. 215a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب سير واعن يا كريم الحمد لله القريب المجيب الذي سائل فضله ... اما بعد فيقول .. لطف ربه ذي اللطف الخفي علي بن محمد الحنفي ...
Colophon: تمت الفتاوي بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم في يوم الجمعة المبارك ... من شهور سنة ست [وخمسين] والف على يد العبد الفقير محمد بن علي بن محمد بن احمد بن يونس الحنفي الشهير بابن الشلبي تاب الله تعالى عليه توبة نصوحاً ورزقه من المدد المحمدي فتوحاً بمحمده واله
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in tan leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
452

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6ce23bfc-7aee-4e8d-abfe-01a6f098d3db/manifest