Item Summary

Collection of ordinances according to traditions, from Muslim and al-Bukhārī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب العمدة في احكام عن النبي عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العامل الحافظ ... تقي الدين ابي محمد عبد الغني بن عبد الواحد بن علي بن سرور المقدسي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-ʻUmdah fī al-aḥkām ʻan al-nabī ʻalayhi afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām / taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-ḥāfiẓ ... Taqī al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʻAlī ibn Surūr al-Maqdisī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4675Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6108vd86x
Publisher
[1455]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1455
Format
Manuscript
Extent
79 leaves: paper ; 185 x 135 (120 x 90) mm bound to 185 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Three reading statements after the colophon ( fol. 79a), in the name of ʻAlī Ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shāfiʻī, dated 1022(?) H. [1613 or 14?] ; of al-Shaykh ʻAlī ibn al-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Rifāʻī al-Āmidī al-Shāfiʻī, dated 1070 H. (in abjad: ʻayn-ghayn) [1659 or 60] ; and of ʻAlī ibn Abū Zayd Ḥanafī madhhaban Aḥmadī ṭarīqatan, dated 1070 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 637
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 356 (14/2) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). It appears in the colophon as al-ʻUmdah fī al-aḥkām (fol. 79a).
Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including mentions of price. Inscription in Roman script on a spine label and on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A159". Inscription in purple ink in Arabic script on fol. 1a: "raqm 139".
Collation: Paper, fol. 79 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-8¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thālith" (see fol. 20a).
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium large script in black ink with use of red for headings and key words. Red dot text-stops outlined in black. The text is vocalized. Thick light cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. The title is written in black and red ink and framed within a triangular border in black and red.
Origin: Copy completed on Saturday 5 Rajab 859 [June 21, 1455] ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá al-Jaljūlī (JLjūlī), from a copy dated Thursday 12 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 716 [Jan. 1317], itself copied from a copy dated Friday 21 Rajab 634 [March 20, 1237] (colophon, fol. 78b-79a, in red ink). Collation statement by the same on the right margin of the colophon (fol. 78b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ العلّامة محدّث الشام شيخ الاسلام تفي الدين ابو محمد عبد الغني بن عبد الواحد بن علي بن سرور المقدسي رحمه الله ورضى عنه قال الحمد لله الملك الجبّار الواحد القهّار واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له ربّ السموات والارض وما بينهما العزيز الغفّار ... اما بعد فان بعض اخواني سالني اختصار جملة في احاديث الاحكام من ما اتفق عليه الامامان
Explicit: لم يكن له مال غيره فباعه بثمانماية درهم ثم ارسل ثمنه اليه نجز الكتاب بحمده وعونه وحسن توفيقه

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
83

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6e10b5de-232b-4276-b3c2-866aa1116890/manifest