Item Summary

Compendium of Ḥanafī law. According to Kashf al-ẓunūn, it was started by the father of the author and completed by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm at the end of Shaʻbān 651 [1253] in Samarqand (see end of the text).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب فصول الاحكام على مذهب ابي حنيفة رضي الله تعالى عنه / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة فريد دهره ووحيد عصره المعروف بالعمادي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Fuṣūl al-iḥkām ʻalá madhhab Abī Ḥanīfah raḍiya Allāh taʻālá ʻanhu / taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi al-maʻrūf bi-al-ʻImādī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3625Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/j96023251
Publisher
[1455]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1455
Format
Manuscript
Extent
300 leaves: paper ; 270 x 185 (210 x 140) mm. bound to 270 x 185 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (ownership statement dated 1276 H. [1859-60] on fol. 2a). Ownership statement refering to Dār al-Sulṭānīyah Qusṭanṭinīyah on fol. 2a. Ownership statement with seal on fol. 1b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1051
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 382/45 ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a). See GAL.
Incipit: الحمد لله وباسمه يبتدا كل كتاب ويختم وينثر كل خطاب وينظم وبالصلوة على رسوله ... وبعد فان العلم فخر يبقى على مرور الاحقاب
Explicit: وخطل الخاطر الضعيف الماثر نجزت كتابته فى اواخر شعبان لسنه احدى وخمسين وستمايه هجريه بالمدرسه الميمويه الاميريه الاحليه المعربيه(؟) عماد الملليه ضيا الدينيه المبنيه براوال سرووعك احدى محال البلده الفاخره سمرقند لا زالت معموره .. قال اممنا اما بعد فان مسايل هذا الكتاب اعز من الوطوه الحسان واعز من اللالى والمرجان ... وقد كان تولى امر تحرير الكتاب ... الا اتفق الاختمام على يدى ابن مولفه جمال المله والدين برهان الائمه فى العالمين تغمده الله تعالى بالرحمة والرضوان
Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for key-words, re-inking, and headings. Red dots in groups of three text-stops. Thick cream paper, glossy, with pulp visible. Marginal annotations. Several short texts on fol. 2a. Fol. 1 is a later addition with inscriptions. Kabīkaj on fol. 2a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 8a).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "...? 8". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "361 Ḥāʼ".
Ijāzah(?) on the margin of the colophon (fol. 298a).
Collation: Paper, fol. 300 ; fol. 1 (later added endpaper with inscriptions) 1-29¹⁰ 30¹⁰ (-1 at the end of the quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Thālithah" (see fol. 21a) or Arabic numerals.
Origin: Copy completed on 19 Rabīʻ al-Ūlá 859 [March 1455] by Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-...(?) al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 298a).
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, with a blind tooled border consisting of fillets. Brown leather doublure.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources
Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources
Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Sources
Hanafites—Certification—History—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
306

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb3b379a-7254-4063-b31e-25a2d981a744/manifest