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كتاب المستغيثين بالله تعالى عند المهمات والحاجات والمتضرعين اليه سبحانه بالدعوات والرغبات / تأليف ابي القاسم خلف بن عبد الملك بن مسعود بن بشكوال. ويليه كتاب مصباح الظلام في المستغيثين بخير الانام.
Kitāb al-Mustaghīthīn billāh taʻālá ʻinda al-muhimmāt wa-al-ḥājāt wa-al-mutaḍarriʻīn ilayhi subḥānahu bi-al-daʻawāt wa-al-raghabāt / taʼlīf Abī al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Masʻūd ibn Bushkuwāl. Wa-yalīhi Kitāb Miṣbāḥ al-ẓalām fī al-mustaghīthīn bi-khayr al-anām.
1200-1299
Two works on the lives and virtues of pious men.
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- Publisher
- [13th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1050H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Two works on the lives and virtues of pious men.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب المستغيثين بالله تعالى عند المهمات والحاجات والمتضرعين اليه سبحانه بالدعوات والرغبات / تأليف ابي القاسم خلف بن عبد الملك بن مسعود بن بشكوال. ويليه كتاب مصباح الظلام في المستغيثين بخير الانام.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Mustaghīthīn billāh taʻālá ʻinda al-muhimmāt wa-al-ḥājāt wa-al-mutaḍarriʻīn ilayhi subḥānahu bi-al-daʻawāt wa-al-raghabāt / taʼlīf Abī al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Masʻūd ibn Bushkuwāl. Wa-yalīhi Kitāb Miṣbāḥ al-ẓalām fī al-mustaghīthīn bi-khayr al-anām.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1050H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7h14b253b
- Publisher
- [13th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1200-1299
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 159 leaves : paper ; 175 x 130 (130-140 x 72-96) mm bound to 170 x 205 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1893, 1902.
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 306.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 526; V, 579.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a: [Collective title page]
- 2. fol. 1b-38a: Kitāb al-Mustaghīthīn billāh taʻālá ʻinda al-muhimmāt wa-al-ḥājāt wa-al-mutaḍarriʻīn ilayhi subḥānahu bi-al-daʻawāt wa-al-raghabāt. A work on the lives and virtues of pious men.
- 3. fol. 38b-40b: [Fawāʼid]
- 4. fol. 42a-159a: Kitāb Miṣbāḥ al-ẓalām fī al-mustaghīthīn bi-khayr al-anām / taʼlīf Shams al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn al-Nuʻmān al-Muzālī. A work on the lives and virtues of pious men who placed their faith in the Prophet in times of tribulation. The work was composed in 639 [1242].
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from collective title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes. On the title page appear the riwāyahs.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 159 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 18-21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (fol. 42-159 only: unidentified mark) ; MS in poor condition; decayed and defective but with minimal loss of text. Rare.
- Origin: Probably from the XIIIth century.
- Incipit: [کتاب المستغيثين] بسم الله الرحمنالرحيم وبه نستعين اخبرنا الشيخ الفقيه الحافظ ابو القاسم خلف بن عبد الملك بن شكوال رضى الله عنه كتابة اللهم اجعلنا ممن استغاث بك فاغثته ودعاك ... -- [كتاب مصباح الظلام] اخبرنا الشيخ الامام العالم القدوة ... شمس الدين ابو بعد الله محمد ابن موسى بن النعمان المزالى ... قال الحمد لله المجيب لمن دعاه الموفق لمن قصده ... اما بعد فانه سبق جماعة من العلما الاعلام ...
- Colophon: [کتاب المستغيثين] تم الکتاب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيّه وآله واصحابه اجمعين وسلم تسليما کثيرا -- [كتاب مصباح الظلام] وصلّ اللهم عليه وعلى آله کلما ذکره الذاکرون وغفل عن ذکره الغافلون وسلم تسليما کثيرا وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل نعم المولى ونعم النصير ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم
- Binding Note
- Later type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather with a later red leather spine. Blind- and gold-tooled edging.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 326
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/23474e65-ed3f-4aed-899c-317b268da89b/manifest