Item Summary

Collection of fifteen short treatises by al-Suyūṭī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاسئلة السبعة ؛ شد الاثواب في سد الابواب
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-asʼilah al-sabʻah ; Shadd al-athwāb fī sadd al-abwāb ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2889Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qf85nb35g
Publisher
[between 1715 and 1722]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1715-1722
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 122, ii leaves: paper ; 220 x 160 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 220 x 160 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb [19th cent.] (fol. IIa). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 122, 662, 725, 799, 1684, 2043, 2546, 2548, 2925, 4342, 4398, 4574, 4577, 4708, 5095
Iqbāl, A. al-Shirqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 28, 202, 209, 277, 345, 387, 500, 506, 509, 522, 566, , 637/23, 367/35, 668, 718
Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 61, 149, 190, 229, 236, 260, 338, 419, 443, 525, 539, 592
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. I: [Blank].
2. fol. IIa: [Table of contents].
3. fol. 1a-5b (Text 1): Kitāb al-asʼilah al-sabʻah fī aḥwāl al-mawtá wa-al-jawāb ʻanhā / lil-Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
4. fol. 6a-13a (Text 2): Kitāb Shadd al-athwāb fī sadd al-abwāb / li-Khātimat al-ḥuffāẓ wa-al-mudaqqiqīn Jalāl al-ḥaqq wa-al-millah wa-al-dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
5. fol. 13b: [Blank].
6. fol. 14a-26a (Text 3): Kitāb Qaṭf al-azhār al-mutanāthirah fī al-akhbār al-mutawātirah / lil-ʻAllāmah khātim al-ḥuffāẓ Jalāl al-ḥaqq wa-al-sharīʻah wa-al-dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
7. fol. 26b: [Blank].
8. fol. 27a-28b (Text 4): Arbaʻūn ḥadīth fī al-aḥkām al-sharʻīyah wa-faḍāʼil al-aʻmāl wa-al-zuhd / jamaʻa al-ʻAllāmah khātim al-ḥuffāẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī [Title in Table of contents: "Ḥadīth al-arbaʻīn fī aḥkām al-sharīʻah"].
9. fol. 29a-33a (Text 5): Kitāb Qawl al-faṣīḥ fī taʻyīn al-dhabīḥ / lil-Imām al-humām Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
10. fol. 33b: [Blank].
11. fol. 34a-36a (Text 6): al-Ḥaẓẓ al-wāfir min al-maghnam fī istidrāk al-kāfir idhā aslama / lil-ʻAllāmah Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
12. fol. 36b: [Blank].
13. fol. 37a-38b (Text 7): Kitāb al-Qudhādhah fī taḥqīq maḥall al-istiʻādhah / lil-ʻAllāmah khātimat al-ḥuffāẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
14. fol. 39a-43b (Text 8): Kitāb Natījat al-fikr fī al-jahr bi-al-dhikr / li-Mawlānā khātimat al-ḥuffāẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
15. fol. 44a-54a (Text 9): Kitāb Tanwīr al-ḥalak fī imk[ān] ruʼyat al-nabī wa-al-malak / lil-Imām Khātim[--] Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyū[ṭī] [Title in Table of contents: "Kitāb al-Ḥalak fī imkān ruʼyat al-nabī wa-al-malak"].
16. fol. 54b: [Blank].
17. fol. 55a-64a (Text 10): al-Maqāmah al-sundusīyah fī īmān abaway khayr al-barīyah / li-Khātimat al-ḥuffāẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
18. fol. 64b: [Blank].
19. fol. 65a-71a (Text 11): al-Maqāmah al-yāqūtīyah / taʼlīf khātimat al-ḥuffāẓ Jalāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
20. fol. 71a-94b (Text 12): Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-kāminah fī īmān al-sayyidah Āminah, wa-yusammá ayḍan al-Taʻẓīm wa-al-minnah fī anna abaway al-Nabī fī al-jannah / lil-ʻAllāmah Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
21. fol. 95a-102a (Text 13): Kitāb Tanbiʼat al-ghabī fī tabriʼat Ibn ʻArabī al-maʻrūd bi-Shaykh al-akbar Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻArabī al-Khātimī al-Ṭāʼī al-Andalusī al-Maghribī / taʼlīf Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
22. fol. 102b: [Blank].
23. fol. 103a-114b (Text 14): Kitāb al-Iʻlām fī ḥukm ʻĪsá ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām / taʼlīf Jalāl al-Dīn al-Imām ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
24. fol. 115a: [Blank].
25. fol. 115b-122a (Text 15): Risālat al-amānī fī uṣūl al-tahānī / lil-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī [Title in Table of contents: "Kitāb Wuṣūl al-amānī bi-uṣūl al-tahānī"].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title provided by cataloger.
17 lines per page (Text 9: 25 lines per page). Written in medium small naskh(?) in black ink with use of red. Dark cream glazed European paper with watermark. Fol. 115-122 on a clearer glazed European paper with watermark, apparently from another hand. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Table of contents on fol. IIa. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Mujammaʻ 6". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "504/2 Ḥāʼ".
Copied by Khulūṣ Darwīsh Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥarram ibn Ḥasan Faqīh ibn Zafar Faqīh al-Junaydī(?) al-Ḥanafī al-Khilwatī al-Ṭūpkhānūʼī (fol. 5b, 6a, 13a, 26a, 28b, 33a, 36a, 38b, 43b, 64a, 71a, 94b, 102a, 114b). Copy of Text 1 completed on Yawm al-Jumʻah(?) 21 Muḥarram 1127 [January 27, 1715] (colophon, fol. 5b). Copy of Text 2 completed on Yawm al-Aḥad(?) 23 Muḥarram 1127 [January 29, 1715] (colophon, fol. 13a). Copy of Texts 3 and 4 completed on 6 Ṣafar 1127 [February 11, 1715] (colophons, fol. 26a and 28b). Copy of Text 5 completed on 8 Ṣafar 1127 [February 13, 1715] (colophon, fol. 33a). Copy of Texts 6 and 7 completed on 9 Ṣafar 1127 [February 14, 1715] (colophons, fol. 36a and 38b). Copy of Text 8 completed on 22 Shaʻbān 1132 [June 29, 1720] (colophon, fol. 43b). Copy of Text 9 completed on 6 Shawwāl 1134 [July 20, 1722] (colophon, fol. 54a). Copy of Text 10 started on Wednesday [10 Muḥarram] ("yawm ʻĀshūrá") 1127 [January 16, 1715] (title page, fol. 55a) and completed on 14 Muḥarram 1127 [January 20, 1715] (colophon, fol. 64a). Copy of Text 11 completed 26 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1126 [January 2, 1715] (colophon, fol. 71a). Copy of Text 12 completed on Wednesday [10 Muḥarram] ("yawm ʻĀshūrá") 1127 [January 16, 1715] (colophon, fol. 94b). Copy of Text 13 completed on 17 Muḥarram 1127 [January 23, 1715] (colophon, fol. 102a). Copy of Text 14 completed on 20 Muḥarram 1127 [January 26, 1715] (colophon, fol. 114b). Often, the day of the week mentioned in the colophons does not seem to correspond to the date given.
Collation: Paper, fol. ii, 122, ii ; ii (endleaves on glazed European paper with watermark, with table of contents on fol. IIa) + 1-4¹⁰ 5¹⁴ 6-11¹⁰ 12⁸ + ii ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Binding Note
Marbled paper pasted on stiffened brown leather for upper and lower covers. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Jesus Christ—Islamic interpretations—Early works to 1800
Ibn al-ʻArabī 1165-1240—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—15th century
Future life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Apparitions—Religious aspects—Islam—early works to 1800
Visions—Religious aspects—Islam—early works to 1800
Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
258

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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