Item Summary

Traditions collected by Ibn Wadʻān, and an abridgement of a collection of prayers.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اربعين حديث / للامام ابن ودعان. ويليه كتاب اختصار حلية الابرار وشعار الاخيار في الدعوات المستجابة والاذكار المستحبة في الليل والنهار / للامام المحدث يحيى بن شرف النواوي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Arbaʻīn ḥadīth / lil-Imām Ibn Wadʻān. Wa-yalīhi Kitāb Ikhtiṣār Ḥilyat al-abrār wa-shiʻār al-akhyār fī al-daʻawāt al-mustajābah wa-al-adhkār al-mustaḥabbah fī al-layl wa-al-nahār / lil-Imām al-Muḥaddith Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 757H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc08613079j
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Extent
20 leaves : paper ; 212 x 155 (155 x 102) mm bound to 213 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2168.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 159, VI, p. 432.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-4b: Kitāb Arbaʻīn ḥadīth / lil-Imām Ibn Wadʻān. Selections from the author's al-Arbaʻūn al- Wadʻānīyah, a collection of forty traditions.
2. fol. 4b-20b: Kitāb Ikhtiṣār Ḥilyat al-abrār wa-shiʻār al-akhyār fī al-daʻawāt al-mustajābah wa-al-adhkār al-mustaḥabbah fī al-layl wa-al-nahār / lil-Imām al-Muḥaddith Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawāwī. An abridgment of a collection of prayers for day and night, handed down from the earliest period of Islam.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Note on title page that the manuscript has 20 leaves.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (blue paper) + 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and stained with dampness but fully legible.
Origin: Probably from XlVth century.
Incipit: [كتاب اربعين حديث] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله وسلم على مولانا ... هذه احاديث من الاربعين للفقيه بن ودعان ... -- [كتاب اختصار حلية الابرار] ومن كتاب اختصار حلية الابرار وشعار الاخيار في الدعوات ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم النجاري وسلم عن ابي ايوب الانصاري عن النبي ...
Explicit: [كتاب اربعين حديث] ... حمدا او خسف او فذف او مسخى -- [كتاب اختصار حلية الابرار] تم ولله الحمد
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper. Blue paper pastedowns and flyleaf.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
53

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/9f3a44a2-8287-40bb-a41e-3c625909ab05/manifest