Item Summary

A treatise on the words of ikhlās, the phrase "Lā ilāha illā Allāh".

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الجوهر الخاص في اجوبة مسائل كلمة الاخلاص / لمولانا الشيخ العالم العلامة العارف بالله تعالى محمد زين العابدين الغمري المرصفي ... .
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-jawhar al-khāṣṣ fī ajwibat masāʼil kalimat al-ikhlāṣ / li-mawlānā al-shaykh al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ʻārif billāh taʻālá Muḥammad Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Ghamrī al-Marṣafī ... .
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 324L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczk51vw09f
Publisher
[1841]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1841
Extent
58 leaves : paper ; 186 x 136 (126 x 98) mm bound to 190 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1586.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII (463).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
14 lines per page. Written in a medium script in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper.
Origin: Copied by Muḥammad Dāwūd and completed at the end of Jumādá al-Ūlá '57, i.e. 1257 (1841) -- colophon (fol. 57a).
Incipit: رب يسر قال الفقير الي عفو الله ولطفه الحقي محمد بن محمد سبط المرصفي الحمد لله المعطي الوهاب ... اما بعد فقد ورد على اسئلة في كلمة الاخلاص
Explicit: وحديث رسوله الذي ارسله بشيراً ونذيراً ولو كان من عند لوجدا فيه اختلافا كثيراً وكفي با وببا وكفى با نصيراً وصلى على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد رب العالمين امين
Binding Note
Ms. is unbound but inside a binding which is half leather with yellow and pink paper with black print pattern on covers and the envelope flap, and red leather on spine and fore edge flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in light green glazed paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in red leather.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
128

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a1c9bc6e-4e23-4e02-b3ba-eac46a542a62/manifest