Item Summary

A treatise on the Night of Power in which the Koran was revealed followed by a short work by Suyūṭī on the length of life.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرح الصدر بليلة القدر ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Sharḥ al-ṣadr bi-Laylat al-Qadr ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1022H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck643bc76x
Publisher
[1]209 [1794 or 1795]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1794
Format
Manuscript
Extent
7 leaves : paper ; 205 x 150 (157 x 107) mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature of Ḥasan al-Jabartī al-Ḥanafī with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1218.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, IV, p. 39.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-6a: Kitāb Sharḥ al-ṣadr bi-Laylat al-Qadr / lil-ʻAllāmah Walī al-Dīn al-ʻIrāqī. A brief treatise on the Night of Power in which the Koran was revealed. See Sūrah XCVII.
2. fol. 6a-7b: Ifādat al-khabar bi-naṣṣihi fī ziyādat al-ʻumr wa-naqṣih. A treatise discussing the length of life and whether it exceeds or falls short of its pre-ordained length.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption of first work (fol. 1a).
The title of the first work appears in the colophon as Sharḥ al-ṣadr bi-dhikr Laylat al-Qadr.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 7 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Kitāb Sharḥ al-ṣadr] Copied by Aḥmad al-Sālimī al-Mālikī al-Azʹharī (fol. 6a) -- [Ifādat al-khabar] Copied [1]209 by Aḥmad ibn ʻĀmir al-Sālimī al-Mālikī al-Azʹharī (fol. 7b).
Incipit: [كتاب شرح الصدر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي نطقت بشکره الالسنة وجل من ان ياخذه نوم او سنه وفضل ازمنة كما فضل امكنه ... -- [افادة الخبر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام علي عباده الذين اصطفي .. والذي رحمه الله عن العمر هل يزيد وينقص من الولادة الي الموت ...
Colophon.: [كتاب شرح الصدر] تم شرح الصدر بذکر ليلة القدر بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل ولاحول ولاقوة الا بالله العلي العظيم کتبها الفقير احمد بن الحاج عامر السالمي المالکي الازهري غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين -- [افادة الخبر] تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وكان الفراغ منها علي يد الفقير احمد بن الحاج عامر السالمي المالكي الازهري بتاريخ يوم السبت المبارك سنة 209 وال... الله ونعم الوكيل
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Laylat al-Qadr—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Theological anthropology—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
18

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fac9d63b-952d-45c6-9789-bf5a0b90cd76/manifest