Item Summary

Treatise on the conduct of sufis. The date of the author is uncertain, but according to internal elements, the composition of the treatise can be dated to the first quarter of the 5th/11th cent. (see Williams, J.A. Rawḍat al-murīdīn, 1958, p. v-vi ; Massignon, L. La passion d'...al-Ḥallāj, 1922, no. 228).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب روضة المريدين / تأليف الشيخ الامام ابي جعفر محمد بن الحسين بن احمد بن يزدانيار رحمه الله تعالى رحمة واسعة
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Rawḍat al-murīdīn / taʾlīf al-Shaykh al-imām Abī Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazdānyār raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá raḥmatan wāsiʻatan.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 968Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m326m1793
Publisher
[1383]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1383
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 97, i leaves : paper ; 147 x 115 (105 x 85). bound to 150 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements and impression of a seal on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2756
Williams, John Alden. Rawḍat al-murīdīn. Shaykh Abu Jaʻfar ibn-Yazdānyār. Thesis (Ph.D.). Princeton University, 1958.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The title appears as "Rawḍat al-muridīn" in the preamble of the text (fol. 2b). The name of the author appears in the preamble of the text.
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Thick soft dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines visible. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. According to this foliation, many folios are misplaced. Two modern foliations in pencil using Western numerals (this record follows that on the lower margin). Worm-eaten; a few loose leaves.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by Qāsim ibn Nāṣir ibn Salmān on 28 Rajab 785 [Sept. 26, 1383] (fol. 97a).
Copyist: Qāsim ibn Nāṣir ibn Salmān.
Basmallah: بسم ... وبه نستعين رب سهّل ويسر ولا تعسّر
Incipit: قال الشيخ ابو جعفر محمد بن الحسين بن احمد بن يزدانيار رضى الله عنه الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا يكون له رضا ولشكره ادا وصلى الله ... اما بعد فقد سالنى بعض الاخوان بان اجمع لهم فصولا فى معنى اداب الصوفية واحكامهم وطريقتهم ... الباب الاول فى اداب الصوفية قال النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم ان الله تعالى ادبنى فاحسن تادبى
Explicit: لا يشهد بتصوفه اثار المتقدمين من مشايخ التصوف كان من المدعين جعلنا الله من المهتدين المقتد-- [97أ] باثار السابقين من العلما العارفين والمتصوفة الواحدين انه خير المنعمين وهو ارحم الراحمين تمت الكتاب
Binding Note
Paper pastedowns with inscriptions.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufism—Doctrines—11th century
Sufis—Conduct of life—11th century
Sufis—Customs and practices—11th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
204

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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