Item Summary

Commentary on the Zaydī treatise by al-ʻUṣayfirī on inheritance law, Miftāḥ al-fāʼiḍ fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ, followed by a supplement entitled "Kitāb al-waṣāyā" and chapters on mīrāth al-muṭallaqāt, ḍarb, and misāḥah. The volume also contains other texts and notes concerning inheritance law as well as several poems.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ايضاح الغامض الكاشف لمعاني مفتاح الفائض في علم الفرائض / تأليف الفقيه العالم العامل ملا شهاب الدين احمد بن محمد الخالدي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Īḍāḥ al-ghāmiḍ al-kāshif li-maʻānī Miftāḥ al-fāʼiḍ fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ / taʼlīf al-faqīh al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil Mullā Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khālidī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3278Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rn3011798
Publisher
[16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
157 leaves : paper ; 214 x 155 (150-165 x 90-100) mm.
Provenance
Owners' statements dated 1148 H. [1735 or 6] and 1212 H. [1797 or 8] on fol. 4a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1623
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 50 (11: no. 1, commentary a); SI, 702
Rights Statement
No Copyright - Contractual Restrictions
Contents
1. pastedown, fol. 1a-1b: [Notes and poetry].
2. fol. 2a-2b: Hādhihi al-masāʼil / lil-faqīh ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad. Questions and answers concerning inheritance law.
3. fol. 3a-3b: [Poem in praise of the Prophet].
4. fol. 4a-150b: Kitāb Īḍāḥ al-ghāmiḍ al-kāshif li-maʻānī Miftāḥ al-fāʼiḍ fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ. Poem attributed to al-Imām al-Mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh Yaḥyá Sharaf al-Dīn and notice concerning Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khālidī on fol. 4a. Text is followed by a poem by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Falakī and a notice concerning certain Qurʼānic sūrahs.
5. fol. 151a-153b: Mithāl mā fī ziyādat al-sihām / Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Ṣalāḥ ibn Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Falakī. With notes in red by Muḥammad ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Falakī.
6. fol. 154a: [Notes on inheritance law].
7. fol. 154b-157a: Kitāb al-waṣāyā. Extract from Miftāḥ al-farāʼiḍ.
8. fol. 157b: [Notes on inheritance law].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 4a.
Physical description: 15-23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on beige glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication in red, yellow, and green; catchwords and some marginal notes. Some smudging of text and damp staining. First leaf ragged on edges. Inserts between fol. 27-28, 72-73, 75-76.
Incip.: ... الحمد لله وسلام ... وبعد فان کتابنا هذا مبنى على مقدمة واحد وعشرين بابا وخاتمة

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Subject
ʻUṣayfirī, al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Saʻd 12/13th cent—Miftāḥ al-fāʼiḍ fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ
عصيفري، الفضل بن ابي السعد، 12/13th cent—مفتاح الفائض في علم الفرائض
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Zaydīyah—Early works to 1800

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File Count
324

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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