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كتاب الفتوحات الالهية في احاديث خير البرية / لجامعه امير المؤمنين محمد بن عبد الله الحسني المغربي المالكي
Kitāb al-Futūḥāt al-ilāhīyah fī aḥādīth Khayr al-barīyah / li-jāmiʻihi Amīr al-muʼminīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥasanī al-Maghribī al-Mālikī.
1783-1899
Collection of ḥadīths. The text is followed on fol. 188b-189b by a short text by the author explaining the reason for designating himself as Mālikī and Ḥanbalī, entitled: "Faṣl fī bayān qawlī fī al-tarjamah al-Mālikī madhhaban al-Ḥanbalī iʻtiqādan", comprising a statement about belief according to Abū Ḥanīfah, Mālik, al-Shāfiʻī and Ibn Ḥanbal. According to the end of the text, the composition was completed in the second month of the year 1198 [Dec. 1783-Jan. 1784] (fol. 189b).
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- Publisher
- [between 1783 and 18--?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 737H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Collection of ḥadīths. The text is followed on fol. 188b-189b by a short text by the author explaining the reason for designating himself as Mālikī and Ḥanbalī, entitled: "Faṣl fī bayān qawlī fī al-tarjamah al-Mālikī madhhaban al-Ḥanbalī iʻtiqādan", comprising a statement about belief according to Abū Ḥanīfah, Mālik, al-Shāfiʻī and Ibn Ḥanbal. According to the end of the text, the composition was completed in the second month of the year 1198 [Dec. 1783-Jan. 1784] (fol. 189b).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الفتوحات الالهية في احاديث خير البرية / لجامعه امير المؤمنين محمد بن عبد الله الحسني المغربي المالكي
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Futūḥāt al-ilāhīyah fī aḥādīth Khayr al-barīyah / li-jāmiʻihi Amīr al-muʼminīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥasanī al-Maghribī al-Mālikī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 737H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mk61rr28z
- Publisher
- [between 1783 and 18--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1783-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 190 leaves : paper ; 300 x 195 (200 x 100) mm.
- Provenance
- Large oval seal of ...? Amīr al-liwā dated [1]237 on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1411
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 692/5 ; 940/111
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 2b, l. 1-2).
- Layout: 27 lines per page.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 190 ; collation notes in the margin ; chiefly quinions ; quires signed: 1-19 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of red. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah; final yāʼ dotted. European paper with watermark ("Tre Lune"). Collation notes on the margin.
- Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه قال عبد الله المتوكل على الله المعتصم بالله امير المومنين محمد بن عبدالله الحسني المالكي مذهبا الحنبلي اعتقادا الله وليه ومولاه الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله اعلم ان افضل العلوم بعد كتاب الله عز وجل حديث رسول الله
- Explicit: يقول لا تقتلوا اولادكم برا فان قتل الفيل بكرك الفارس فيد عثره عن ظهر فرسه انتهت مسندات الامام العالم ... ابو عبد الله سيدي احمد بن محمد بن حنبل ... وبتمامها تم كتاب الفتوحات الالهية في احاديث خير البرية والحمد لله حق حمده والصلاة على سيدنا ومولانا محمد نبيه وعبده
- Incipit "Faṣl fī bayān..." (fol. 188b): بسم ... صلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم فصل في بيان قولي في الترجمة المالكي مذهبا الحنبلي اعتقادا والايمة رضي الله عنهم اعتقادهم واحد فاردت ان اشرح قولي المالكي
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Pink paper pastedowns. Quires loose within the binding.
- Unbound quires placed in a binding in golden brown leather, with flap. Blind-tooled and stamped.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 439
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5698dddd-967e-4e5a-a26e-1643d673d569/manifest