Item Summary

An abridgment of Kitāb ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth, a work on the science of tradition by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī, 643/1245.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مختصر علوم الحديث / الفه عماد الدين بن كثير الدمشقي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mukhtaṣar ʻulūm al-ḥadīth / allafahu ʻImād al-Dīn ibn Kathīr al-Dimashqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 782H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczs25xm718
Publisher
14 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 794 [May 16, 1392]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1392
Format
Manuscript
Extent
52 leaves : paper ; 220 x 136 (155 x 80) mm.
Provenance
Signature of Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn al-Nābulusī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 52b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1451.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 249.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. In the original colophon it is stated that the work was composed 752/1351. On the title page are several verses of poetry and a wisdom saying by the Caliph ʻAlī. Red and white thread page marker in side of folio 1a. Colophon is followed by a reading certificate.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 52 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; folios 30-31 on tinted paper and frame-ruled in red and blue ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 14 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 794 by Majd al-Dīn Muḥammad (fol. 51b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام الحافظ الناقد الحجة عماد الدين ... بن كثير ... الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الدين اصطفى وبعد فان علم الحديث النبوي الذي اعتنى بالكلام فيه جماعة من الحفاظ ...
Colophon: نقل اصل هذه النسخة من خط الشيخ العلامة مجد الدين محمد ... بن الشيخ الامام المعقود بالخنصر في شأن القرآءة والتحديث شمس الملة والدين محمد وفرغت يداه منه في يوم الاربعاء رابع عشر جمادى الاخرة سنة اربع وتسعين وسبعمائة
Binding Note
Unbound. Remnants of sewing remain.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Certificates
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2808df57-3262-4e38-9680-5317596ea7af/manifest