Item Summary

A defense of the authenticity of the alleged apocryphal traditions in the corpus of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب القول المسدد في الذب عن مسند احمد / جمع ابي احمد بن على بن محمد بن محمد بن على بن احمد العسقلاني الشافعي الشهير بابن حجر.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Qawl al-musaddad fī al-dhabb ʻan Musnad Aḥmad / jamʻ Abī Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʻAsqalānī al-Shāfiʻī al-shahīr bi-Ibn Ḥajar.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 219L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbr86bg68p
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1776
Extent
28 leaves : paper ; 228 x 167 (155 x 100) mm bound to 228 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1466.
Suyūṭī, Naẓm al-ʻIqyān (1927), p. 48.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 586.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) and note on title page (fol. 1a). Obscured inscription (fol. [ii]a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 28 + ii ; 3 quires ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "FV") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 22 Jumādá al-Akhirah 1190 (fol. 28b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الحكيم الذي لا يتوجه عليه الانتقاض لاحکامه ... اما بعد فقد رايت ان اذكر في هذه الااوراق ما خضرني من الكلام علي الاحاديث ...
Colophon: ووقع الفراغ من تسويد هذه النسخة يوم الجمعة المبارك ثاني عشرين شهر جمادى الاخرة من شهور سنة تسعين ومائة والف من الهجرة على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-tooled geometric design across covers. Paper pastedowns streaked with red. Not sewn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
68

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f1e36a20-1147-4ff8-8b99-a9e36d3abb70/manifest