Item Summary

Collection of texts on various topics (ḥadīth, Islamic law, lexicography, etc.).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مختصار تصحيح غاية الاختصار ... [الخ.].
Transliterated Title
Kitāb mukhtaṣār Taṣḥīḥ Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1843Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z316q164g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1599
Extent
35 leaves : paper ; 172 x 128 (135 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Waqf statement on fol. 1a. Ownership statement on fol. 31a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 756, 1415, 3782,
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-8b: al-Juzʼ al-thālith min al-fawāʼid al-muntaqāh al-gharāʼib ʻan al-shuyūkh al-ʻawālī min ḥadīth Abī ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī. Collection of ḥadīths, as transmitted by Abu al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥarbī al-Sukkārī (followed by the names of three other transmitters, see fol. 1a).
2. fol. 9a-20b: Kitāb mukhtaṣār Taṣḥīḥ Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār / Abū Bakr ibn Qāḍī ʻAjlūn. Summary of a commentary by the author on the Ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār of Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī (d. 593/1196).
3. fol. 21b-22a: [List of names of God (al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná)].
4. fol. 23a-28b: Istidʻā mubārak / [Zayn?] al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ibn Abī Bakr ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻUthmānī al-Shāfiʻī al-Marāghī (see fol. 28b).
5. fol. 29b-30a: al-Arbaʻūn al-Nawāwīyah [excerpts] / Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Nawawī.
6. fol. 31a-35a: Sharḥ Muthallath Quṭrub / Saʻd al-Dīn al-Bārizī. Commentary in verse on Kitāb al-muthallath by Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr Quṭrub (d. 206/821 or 2). This text is also attributed to Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd al-Dīrīnī.
7. fol. 35b: [...] min kalām al-ʻAllāmah Ibn al-Maylaq(?) al-Shāfiʻī.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title provided by cataloger.
On fol. 8b: audition statement (samāʻ) of Abū al-Majd ibn Manṣūr ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Āmidī al-Zajjāj, who heard the text read before ʻAbd al-Jalīl ibn Abi Ghālib al-Iṣfahānī in Rabīʻ al-Thānī 610 H. [1213] in Damascus (see also fol. 1a and incipit). Two additions (fāʼidah) on fol. 31a.
Layout: 15-17 lines per page in one or two columns.
Description: Rubricated. Light cream glazed paper with laid lines and chain lines (grouped by three?) visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Collation notes. Severe worm damage.
Origin: [Kitāb mukhtaṣar Taṣḥīḥ] Copied by Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Qādirī on 11 Rajab 911 (colophon, fol. 20b) -- [Sharḥ Muthallath Quṭrub] Copied on 15 Shaʻbān 850 (colophon, fol. 35a, name of the copyist scratched out).
Incipit: [الجزء الثالث من الفوائد المنتقاه] بسم ... ما شا الله لا قوة الا بالله [...] اخبرنا الشيخ الصالح ابو بكر عبد الجليل بن ابى غالب بن ابى المعالى الاصفهانى بدمشق فى ربيع الاخر سنة عشره وستمائه اخبرنا -- [كتاب مختصر تصحيح] بسم ... رب يسر [...] قال سيدنل مولانا ... الحمد لله على افضاله والصلاة والسلام ... وبعد فهذا ما لخصته من تصحيحى لغاية الاختصار فى الفقه -- [شرح مثلث قطرب] بسم ... وبه ثقتى الحمد لله العظيم البارِ الرازق المهيمن الغفارِ
Explicit: [الجزء الثالث من الفوائد المنتقاه] قالت اخبرنى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ان [...] المراه على زوجها من غير ان ينقدها شياءً اخر الجزء الثالث من حديث الحزلى(؟) رحمد الله -- [كتاب مختصر تصحيح] ويصح بيع المستولدة من نفسها ولو اولد امة غيره بشبهة ثم ملكها لم تصر ام ولد ايضاً والله اعلم و صلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين امين -- [شرح مثلث قطرب] ثم الكما(؟) المعروف فهو القط يفوح طبيب نشره فى النار

Physical Characteristics

File Count
70

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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