Item Summary

A collection of four Arabic texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اتقا البدع ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ittiqāʼ al-bidaʻ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 969H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctx31qw24k
Publisher
[19th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
182 leaves : paper ; 207 x 149 (150-180 x 92-115) mm bound to 206 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Seal impressions (fol. 90a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2070.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-17a: Kitāb Ittiqāʼ al-bidaʻ / jamʻ Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ. A collection of traditions warning against innovations and heresies.
2. fol. 18a-87a: Kitāb al-Ḥadīqah al-anīqah fī sharḥ al-ʻUrwah al-wathīqah / taṣnīf Aḥmad Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Baḥraq. A commentary on his own ode of sermonettes and admonitions.
3. fol. 89a: [Fawāʼid] Miscellaneous inscriptions including biographical notes dated from 1231-1244 H.
4. fol. 89b-131a: Kitāb Sharḥ matn al-Kabāyir ʻalá al-arbaʻah al-umūr / ʻAqīl ibn ʻUmar. A commentary on Kitāb al-Kabāʼir, a work on the major sins by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb. Autograph copy.
5. fol. 132a: [Fāʼidah]
6. fol. 133a-175b: Muntakhab al-zahr wa-al-thamar min gharīb al-ḥadīth wa-al-athar. A collection of traditions selected by ʻAqīl ibn ʻUmar from al-Nihāyah fī gharīb al-ḥadīth, a well-known dictionary of traditions by Majd al-Dīn ibn al-Athīr, 606/1210.
7. fol. 177a-182a: [Fawāʻid]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
Inscriptions on lower pastedown.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 182 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18-26 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms; roman-alphabet letters "VORNO," "Al Masso," and "PARADISO") MS in good condition.
Origin: [Kitāb Ittiqāʼ al-bidaʻ] Copied 1227 (fol. 17a)
Incipit: [كتاب اتقا البدع] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعينا باب اتقا البدع حدثا -- [كتاب الحديقة الانيقه] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر يا كريم الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم الذي خلق الانسان ... اما بعد فان الجهل وان كان قبيحا -- [كتاب شرح متن الكباير] اعوذ بالله من السيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي انزل -- [منتخب الزهر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اما بعد فانى جمعت احاديث غريبة من كتاب النهايه
Explicit: [كتاب اتقا البدع] وكان الفراغ من هذه نسخه بتاريخ شهر عاشور سنة 1227 -- [كتاب الحديقة الانيقه] ... وعن ىساير المسلمين امين اللهم امين امين ام -- [منتخب الزهر] هذه نسخة منقول من النهاية لابى الاثير جعله الله موعطة وذكر كرى لقوم يوقنون بالمصير الى الله وانا عقيل ابى عمر الداعى الى الله المندر عذاب الله ... وسميته منتخب الزهر والثمر من غريب الحديث والاثر ... صلى الله لسيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled edging on covers. Small blind-stamped design and blind-tooled edging on flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Baḥraq, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar 1465-1524—ʻUrwah al-wathīqah
Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb 1703 or 1704-1792—Kabāʼir
Hadith—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Islamic poetry, Arabic—History and criticism—Early works to 1800
Sin—Islam—Early works to 1800
Taqlīd—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Dictionaries
holographs (autographs)
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
375

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4347ce1d-1247-4cbf-aad3-c0028c437e5b/manifest