Item Summary

A metrical treatise on the laws of inheritance according to the Shāfiʻite school. The work is also known as al-Jaʻbarīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب نظم اللألي في علم الفرائض / نظم تاج الدين ابي محمد بن ... الشافعي الجعبري.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Naẓm al-laʼālī fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ / naẓm Tāj al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad ibn ... al-Shāfiʻī al-Jaʻbarī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 926H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0z709585w
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1285
Extent
30 leaves : paper ; 178 x 130 (130-150 x 83) mm bound to 178 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures on title page (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1875.
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqlānī, Durar (1326 AH), II, p. 200.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 535.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Lines of poetry and inscriptions on title page. On eight folios following the colophon (fol. 23a-30a) are a masʼalah, several poems on inheritance and a sermonette urging people to abandon tyranny, all by the author, the last entitled Khuṭbah fī al-ḥathth ʻalá tark al-ẓulm. Inscription on folio 30b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 30 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11-13 lines per page.
Description: Fully vocalized ; MS in fair condition, mended. The first folio is defective.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 14 Ramaḍān 684 by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Idrīs ibn Bābā Jūk (fol. 22b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام الاوحد العلامة شيخ الاسلام بركة الشام تاج الدين ابو محمد بن ابي حامد بن حامد الشافعى ... لرب العلى حمد تضوع مندلا وشكر لما اولاه ثم علي الولا اصلي علي خير الانام ...
Colophon: نجزت نظم اللالي کتابة ولله الحمد والمنة في رابع عشر رمضان سنة اربع وثمانين وستمائة کتبها العبد الفقيرالى الله احمد بن ابراهيم بن محمد بن ادريس بن بابا جوك عفا الله عنه
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Flap is missing.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
64

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5a9b3aeb-d49a-4983-a481-0bacdd7c967b/manifest