Item Summary

Miscellany of Arabic texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب العقد الفريد في احكام التقليد ... [الخ.].
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-ʻIqd al-farīd fī aḥkām al-taqlīd ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 321Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2b88qs83h
Publisher
[Cairo], 1009-Muḥarram 1103 [1600-1691]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
346 leaves : paper ; 217 x 156 (158-170 x 80-118) mm bound to 215 x 151 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Yūsuf ibn Raḍī al-Dīn al-Luṭfī dated 1029?, Yūsuf al-Luṭfī, ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Muḥammad al-Khalīlī? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 832, 1487, 2047, 1829, 2003, 4449, 1080, 3429, 3931, 3943.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 95 (6: no. 1); II, 224 (no. 5, 8, 21); II, 247 (commentary 1, gloss a); S II, 88; S II, 223-4; S II, 259.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 3b-42a: Kitāb al-ʻIqd al-farīd fī aḥkām al-taqlīd / taʼlīf ʻAlī al-Samhūdī al-Ḥasanī al-Shāfiʻī.
2. fol. 44a-67b: al-Fawāʼid al-jammah fī al-masāʼil al-thalāth al-muhimmah / taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn Jamāl al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥasanī al-Samhūdī.
3. fol. 68b-140b: Kitāb Ṭīb al-kalām bi-fawāʼid al-salām / li-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Samhūdī.
4. fol. 141a-148a: Maṣābīḥ al-qiyām fī shahr al-ṣiyām / al-Samhūdī.
5. fol. 148b-149a: Sūrat suʼāl warada li-Shaykh al-Islām / Shams ibn al-Luṭf [al-Safadī].
6. fol. 149b-151b: Mā yaqulu mawlānā Shaykh al-Mashāyikh al-Islām bi wujūdihi al-ānām fī bawl al-Nabī (ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallim) hal huwa ṭāhir am lā.
7. fol. 152a-174a: Kitāb al-Maqālāt al-musfirah ʻan dalāʼil al-maghfirah / taʼlīf ʻAlī al-Samhūdī.
8. fol. 175a-215a: Kitāb Wurūd al-sakīnah ʻalá busuṭ al-Madīnah / taʼlīf ʻAlī al-Samhūdī. The authorʼs abridgment of two of his works: Dafʻ al-taʻarruḍ wa-al-inkār li-busuṭ rawḍat al-Mukhtār and al-Intiṣār li-busuṭ rawḍat al-Mukhtār.
9. fol. 217a-220a: [Poetry and fāʼidah].
10. fol. 224a-247b: Kitāb Naẓm al-farāyid wa-Qayd al-sharāʼid / lil-Shaykh Amīr al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Wahbān.
11. fol. 249b-266b: Ḥāshiyah ʻalá sharḥ Risālat al-waḍʻ al-ʻAḍudīyah lil-Samarqandī / ʻAlī al-Harawī.
12. fol. 267a-268b: [Extracts]
13. fol. 269a-305a: Ḥāshiyat ḥafīd al-ʻIṣām ʻalá al-Istiʻārāt. Gloss on ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī's Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah.
14. fol. 305b-306b: [Poetry]
15. fol. 307a-342b: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá sharḥ ʻIṣām al-Dīn]. Acephalous gloss on ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī's Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah.
16. fol. 344a-346b: [Unidentified text]. Incomplete at beginning
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 3a).
A few marginal notes. Bookdealer's inserts. Partial list of contents and lines of poetry (fol. 1a). Bookseller's label: "ELS No. 321" and lines of verse (upper pastedown). Tradition (fol. 2a)
Collation: Paper ; fol. 346 (no. skips 244) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-27 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (fol. 1-43, 52-216: anchor; fol. 43-51: circle; fol. 224-342: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [Kitāb al-ʻIqd al-farīd] Copied from the author's manuscript (fol. 42a) -- [al-Fawāʼid al-jammah] Copied from the author's manuscripts (fol. 67b) -- [Sūrat suʼāl] Copied by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Luṭf al-Maqdisī (fol. 149a) -- [al-Maqālāt al-musfirah] Copied 1009 by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī al-Luṭf al-Shāfiʻī al-Maqdisī (fol. 174a) -- [Poetry and fāʼidah] Copied Shawwāl 1100 by Muḥammad al-Khalīlī at Jāmiʻ al-Azʹhar (fol. 220a) -- [Qayd al-sharāʼid] Copied Monday 18 Jumādá al-Thānī 1099 by Manṣūr al-Miṣrī (fol. 247b) -- [Ḥāshiyah ḥafīd al-ʻIṣām] Copied Thursday 26 Ṣafar 1100 by Muḥammad al-Khalīlī (fol. 305a) -- [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá sharḥ ʻIṣām al-Dīn] Copied Wednesday Muḥarram 1103 (fol. 342b)
Incipit: [العقد الفريد] الحمد لله الذى اکمل لهذه الامة دينها القويم -- [الفوائد الجمة] اما بعد حمد الله .. قد طلبت ... منى تحقيق ما يکثر وقوعه من المسائل الثلاث المتعلقة الحلف بالطلاق -- [طيب الكلام] الحمد لله الملك القدوس ... اما بعد فقد وقف الفقير ... على ثلاثين سؤالا -- [مصابيح القيام] من کلام ... السمهودى فى تأليفه مصابيح ... قال رحمه الله الفصل التاسع فى فضل ليلة القدر -- [المقالات المسفرة] الحمد لله ... اما بعد حمد الله فهذه ثلاثة فصول هى للمغفرة -- [ورود السكينة] الحمد لله الذى جلى بنور الحق ... وبعد فان بروضة سيد الانام ... بسطا مفروشة وفى مواضع منها لفظة وقف بالنسج منقوشة .... واتفق فى عام [873] انکار بعض ارباب الجاه لبسط تلك البسط -- [قيد الشرائد] بداءتنا بحمد الله اجدر * وما ليس مبدوءا به فهو انتر -- [حاشية ... القوشجي] بسمه وبه نستعين وبأوضاع اسمائك ... قوله نزلت منزلة المشخص الح يريد ان کلمة هذه -- [حاشية ... عصام] احمدك حمد مسترشد الانوار -- [حاشية عصام الدين] قوله اى کل عطية الخ اشار لاحتمالين في معنى اللام
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Possibly a type II binding with the flap missing. Binding in poor condition, spine largely missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Semantics—Early works to 1800
Arabic philology—Early works to 1800
Language and languages—Philosophy—Early works to 1800
Fasting—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islamic etiquette—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Medina (Saudi Arabia)—Early works to 1800
Ramadan—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad -1474 or 1475—Sharḥ al-Waḍʻīyah
ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad 1468 or 1469-1538 or 1539—Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah
Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr active 15th century—Risālah al-Samarqandīyah
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad -1355?—Risālah al-waḍʻīyah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
710

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Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
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