Item Summary

A collection of genuine ḥadīths which are calculated to lead to moral and pious life.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب رياض الصالحين / للشيخ ابي زكريا محيي الدين والسنة يحيى بن شرف بن حسن بن حسين بن مر بن حزام الخرامي النووي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Riyāḍ al-ṣāliḥīn / lil-Shaykh Abī Zakarīyā Muḥyī al-Dīn wa-al-Sunnah Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn ibn Marr ibn Ḥizām al-Kharāmī al-Nawawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2253Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cv43p0416
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Extent
264 leaves : paper ; 185 x 132 (140-148 x 100) mm bound to 183 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 650.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 500 (X); S I, 684.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal annotations. Bookdealer's insert and label: "ELS No. 2253". Illegible writing on edges of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 264 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; some paper tinted red ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to the colophon copied ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī al-Maqdisī, 14th cen. (fol. 264b)
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر واعن الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار ... اما بعد فقد قال الله تعالى وما خلقت الجن والانس الا ليعبدون ...
Colophon: اخر الكتاب والحمد لله وحده ... علقه افقر عباده الي عفو ربه الكريم ورحمته عبج الرحمن ابن احمد ابن عبد الهادى المقدسى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمصنفه وبجميع المسلمين وختم لنا بخيره انه على كل شى قدير؟ امين امين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-tooled circular central design and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Repaired and spine replaced.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
307

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4b626c30-c239-4a2f-b393-5ca638252566/manifest