Item Summary

Ibn Wahbān's rhyming poem on Hanafite law, followed by Shurunbulālī's abridgement of Ibn Shiḥnah's commentary on it.

Descriptive Information

Title
متن منظومة احمد الحارفي وشرحها للشرنبلالي.
Transliterated Title
Matn Manẓūmat Aḥmad al-Ḥārifī wa-sharḥuhā lil-Shurunbulālī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 847H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctq57p335n
Publisher
[1600-1699]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
213 leaves : paper ; 210 x 154 (155-160 x 90-100) mm bound to 209 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ḥusayn ibn [?] Abī Bakr; obscured signature dated 1106 with a seal impression; obscured signature dated 1321? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1724, 1725.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 1910-192.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4596.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 30/1.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-32a: Kitāb al-Manẓūmah al-musammāh al-Sharāyid wa-naẓm al-farāyid / naẓm Abī ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Wahbān al-Ḥārafī al-Mazanī al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanafī. A metrical treatise of 400 verses, rhyming in rāʼ, on ḥanafite law. It is said to have been based on thirty-six works of law.
2. fol. 32b-312b: Sharḥ Manẓūmat Ibn Wahbān / lil-faqīh Ḥasan al-Shurunbulālī al-Qāhirī. An abridgment of ʻIqd al-fawāʼid bi-takmīl Qayd al-sharāʼid, the commentary of Ibn al-Shiḥnah al-Ḥalabī, on Qayd al-sharāʼid wa-naẓm al-farāʼid. Text is preceded by a table of contents.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from lower edge of text block.
A few marginal notes. Note that the MS contains 180 sheets on leaf after second colophon.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 213 + i ; catchwords ; folios 35-189 also labeled 1-155 in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-25 lines per page ; folios 1-32 in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; the text commented upon is in red and the commentary in black ; watermarks (fol. 1-32: coat-of-arms; coat-of-arms with an animal; fol. 32-312: cross) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Sharḥ Manẓūmat Ibn Wahbān] According to colophon copy completed end of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1063 (fol. 213b).
Incipit: [قيد الشرائد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. بدائتنا بالحمد لله اجدر * وما ليس مبدؤ ابه فهو ابتر ... وبعد ففي علم الفروع مسايل ... -- [شرح منطومة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اسبغ علينا جزيل نعمته بتحقيق احكام ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف معني وحسا الراجي فيض الرحمة اذا حل رسما ابو الاخلاص حسن بن عمار بن علي الوقاي الشرنبلالي ...
Colophon: [قيد الشرائد] صلاة وتسليما يفوح شذاهما * ومن فيحه جود الوجود يعطر * تمت القصيدة المنظومة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه. م -- [شرح منطومة] وقد کتب هذه الاوراق تتميما للنسخة ولحظ ناسخها وطلبا للمثوبة من الموفق لجمعها المنعم على مؤلفها حسن الشرنبلالي لطف الله وبلغه مأموله وحفظ فروعه ورحم اصوله وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله وعلى سائرالانبياء والمرسلين بتاريخ اواخر جمادى الاولى سنة ثلاث وستين والف ختمت بخير
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. Binding loose; flap detached.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Ibn Wahbān, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad -1366 or 1367—Qaʼid al-sharāʼid wa-naẓm al-fawāʼid
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
442

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d699fe75-28d1-4aef-9f83-d79a0179a05e/manifest