Item Summary

First part of a commentary on Tuḥfat al-muḥtāj, a summary and commentary by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn by Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676/1278), on Shāfiʻī fiqh, collected by Manṣūr Sibṭ al-Shaykh al-Ṭablāwī (see beginning of text). This copy comprises the text up to the end of Kitāb al-Iʻtikāf, Bāb al-iḥṣār wa-al-fawāt. The text is followed by a fāʼidah on fol. 128b.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تأليف الامام شيخ مشايخ الاسلام العلامة احمد بن قاسم العبادي الازهري حواش على شرح المنهاج للامام المحقق شهاب الملة والدين احمد بن حجر الهيثمي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb taʼlīf al-imām shaykh mashāyikh al-Islām al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-ʻUbbādī al-Azharī ḥawāshin ʻalá Sharḥ al-Minhāj lil-imām al-muḥaqqiq Shihāb al-millah wa-al-dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/08612r126
Publisher
[Caucasus, 1846 or 1847]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1846
Format
Manuscript
Extent
129 leaves : paper ; 350 x 250 (295 x 200) mm. bound to 355 x 260 mm.
Provenance
Apparently fom the same group as the manuscripts from the entourage of Imām Shamīl. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1441
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى وفق ائمة فى كل عصر لتحرير الاحكام ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله سبحانه وتعالى منصور سبط الشيخ الطيلاوى الشافعى ... هذه حواش رقيقة ونكات دقيقة وتحريرات شريفة
Physical description: 37 lines per page. Written in thick small taʻlīq in black ink. Elaborate headings in black ink. Thick dark cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible. Fol. 82-102 apparently later replacement, on European paper.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 286". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "979/2 ḥāʼ".
Origin: Copy completed in 1263 H. [1846 or 7] by al-Chūkhī (fol. 1a and 128b).
Binding Note
Soft dark brown leather over paper pastboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Blind stamped central panel with central mandorla and corner pieces. Outer border of fillets. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad approximately 1503-approximately 1566—Tuḥfat al-muḥtāj bi-sharḥ al-Minhāj
ابن حجر الهيثمي، احمد بن محمد—تحفة المحتاج بشرح المنهاج
Islamic law—16th century
Shafiites
Shāmil Imām 1798?-1871
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
135

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/28e441f7-3bf8-414d-a0fd-6ad2ada8a040/manifest