Item Summary

A life of Abū Ḥanīfah. Following the main text are short texts by the same author on Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb and Muḥammad al-Shaybānī, both disciples of Abū Ḥanīfah

Descriptive Information

Title
قلآئد عقود الدرر والعقيان فى مناقب الامام ابي حنيفة النعمان.
Transliterated Title
Qalāʼid ʻuqūd al-durar wa-al-ʻiqyān fī manāqib al-Imām Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 37L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2801pv32s
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Extent
161 leaves : paper ; 219 x 124 (142 x 73) mm bound to 221 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 714.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 566.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-138b: Qalāʼid ʻuqūd al-durar wa-al-ʻiqyān fī manāqib al-Imām Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān
2. fol. 139a-152b: Faṣl fī dhikr shayʼ min manāqib al-Imām Abī Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī.
3. fol. 152b-161b: Faṣl fī dhikr manāqib al-Imām Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻĀlim al-Rabbānī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 3a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 161 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; mended with some loss of text. First folio defective.
Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى روح ارواح اوليآئه بروح رياح نسيم العرفان ... اما بعد فانه يقول العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى الكبير المتعال ابو القاسم بن عبد العليم ... لما من الله تعالى على هذه الامة ببعثة محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وفضله على سآئر الانبيآء والمرسلين ...
Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين. امين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and red and black marbled paper. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
334

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/79128be9-0eed-4b75-9e32-f99607d54fd8/manifest