Item Summary

Collection of traditions from Bukhārī and Muslim, with traditions from the Kitāb al-Shihāb by al-Quḍāʻī (d. 454/1062) and from the Kitāb al-Najm by al-Uqlīshī (d. 550/1155) (GAL).

Descriptive Information

Title
متن مشارق الانوار النبوية
Transliterated Title
Matn Mashāriq al-anwār al-nabawīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 985Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r494vn801
Publisher
[ 1662]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1662
Format
Manuscript
Extent
55 leaves : paper ; 250 x 152 (185 x 97) mm. bound to 250 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements on fol. 2a, one in the name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā al-Ḥusaynī ... , with seal ; the other, partly erased, in the name of Muḥammad ʻĀrif ; seal with the inscription "Muḥammad ʻĀrif" on fol. 3a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 643
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 360 (21/1) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric on fol. 3b.
Physical description: 32 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq(?) in black ink with use of red for the abbreviations of the texts quoted. The text is framed within a single red line. European paper with watermark. Annotations on the margins and on pieces of paper between the original leaves (see between fol. 9 and 10). Fol. 53a-55b: Blank. Narrative table of contents on fol. 3a. Short saying concerning the prophet Muḥammad from Abū Hurayrah on fol. 1a and from Ibn ʻAbbās on fol. 2b and 3a.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī ḥadīth 62". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥ 424".
Origin: Copy completed on 20 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1073 [Nov. 2, 1662] by al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (colophon fol. 52b and statement with impression of the seal of the copyist on fol. 2a).
Incipit: الحمد لله محيى الرمم ومجرى القلم وذارى الامم وبارى الشيم ... قال الملتجى الى حرم الله تعالى الحسن بن محمد بن الحسن الصنعانى ... قبل ان يضعضع الموت اركانه وجداه على ان يعمر ربع الورع
Explicit: ق ابن عمر لبيك اللهم لبيك لبيك ان الحمد والنعمة لك والملك لا شريك لك كان يلبّي بهذه التلبية فى حجّه وعمرته م انس لبيك عمرة وحجًّا تم الكتاب المسمى بمشارق الانوار النبوية والاخبار المصطفوية
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. The covers are similarly blind tooled and gold painted with a central obloid stamp outlined by a gold painted double fillet with radiating flecks, developing into a lotus pattern on each side of the stamp on the vertical axis. The outer frame consists of blind tooled and gold painted fillets. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl 810-870—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ
بخاري، محمد بن اسماعيل،.—جامع الصحيح
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī approximately 821-875—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ
Quḍāʻī, Muḥammad ibn Salāmah -1062
Ibn al-Uqlīshī, Aḥmad ibn Maʻadd -1155 or 1156
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
63

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d127c96-9141-4cc3-960b-5baa0067075c/manifest