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كتاب الرياض النضرات لشرح اخصر المختصرات.
Kitāb al-Riyāḍ al-naḍirāt li-sharḥ Akhṣar al-mukhtaṣarāt.
1727
A commentary on Akhṣar al-mukhtaṣarāt, an abridgment by Ibn Balbān of his own work on Hanbalite law and jurisprudence, which is entitled Kāfī al-mubtadī.
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- Author
- Baʻlī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1698 or 1699-1778 or 1779
- بعلي، عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله، 1698 or 1699-1778 or 1779
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 910H
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Ibn Balabān, Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn 1597 or 1598-1672 or 1673—Akhṣar al-mukhtaṣarāt
- Ibn Balabān, Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn 1597 or 1598-1672 or 1673—Kāfī al-mubtadiʼ min al-ṭullāb
- Islamic law—Early works to 1800
- Hanbalites—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Autographs
- Watermarks
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Item Summary
A commentary on Akhṣar al-mukhtaṣarāt, an abridgment by Ibn Balbān of his own work on Hanbalite law and jurisprudence, which is entitled Kāfī al-mubtadī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الرياض النضرات لشرح اخصر المختصرات.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Riyāḍ al-naḍirāt li-sharḥ Akhṣar al-mukhtaṣarāt.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 910H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1257b1484
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1727
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 260 leaves : paper ; 218 x 153 (165-170 x 90-100) mm bound to 217 x 160 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: Raḥmah bint ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanbalī dated 1158 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1849.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions on folios 1b-2a and the title page. Following the colophon is a extract from al-Dharīʻah [ilá aʻdād al-sharīʻah], a work on Shāfiʻite law by Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻImād al-Aqfahsī (fol. 259b-260a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 260 ; quires signed: 1-26 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 27 lines per page.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (cross on 5 hills; three crescents) ; MS in fair condition; the first five folios are defective. Very rare.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday ʻArafah [9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah] 1139 at al-Jāmiʻ al-Sharīf al-Umawī in Damascus by the author (fol. 259a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي شرح صدر من اراد به خيرا للتفقه في الدين ... وبعد فان الاشغال بعلم الشريعة الشريفة من اجل العلوم قدرا واعظمها فخرا خصوصا علم الحلال والحرام ...
- Colophon: ووافق الفراغ من تعليقه ضحوة نهارعرفة الاثنين الذي هو من شهور سنة تسع وثلاثين ومائة والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم السلام وذلك بقلم مؤلفه الظمآن الى غيث رحمة ربه المنان افقرعباده اليه ابي الخير عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد الحنبلي مذهبا الخلوتي طريقا الحلبي اصلا الدمشقي مولدا ووطنا عفي [عفا] الله عن جميع ذنوبه وسترجميع عيوبه آمين وذلك بمدرسة الشميصاتية لصبق الجامع الشريف الاموي عمره الله بالاسلام الى يوم الدين ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين سبحان ربك ربّ العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Ibn Balabān, Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn 1597 or 1598-1672 or 1673—Akhṣar al-mukhtaṣarāt
- Ibn Balabān, Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn 1597 or 1598-1672 or 1673—Kāfī al-mubtadiʼ min al-ṭullāb
- Islamic law—Early works to 1800
- Hanbalites—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Autographs
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 525
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ae29de09-9094-4cab-91ed-630908b0fe70/manifest