Item Summary

Incomplete copy of one hundred assemblies, consisting of traditions from the Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī (d. 516/1122) with paraenetic commentary. This copy ends in the middle of the 41th majlis.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجالس الابرار ومسالك الاخيار ومخالق البدع ومقامع الاشرار
Transliterated Title
Majālis al-abrār wa-masālik al-akhyār wa-makhāliq al-bidaʻ wa-maqāmiʻ al-ashrār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 972H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcq524k1305
Publisher
[between 1700? and 1748]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1748
Format
Manuscript
Extent
183 leaves : paper ; 210 x 160 (154 x 78) mm bound to 215 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in Ottoman Turkish dated 1161 [1748], in the name of Muḥammad son of ʻAbd Allāh son of ʻAbd al-Muṭallib son of Hāshim son of ʻAbd al-Munāf son of Qaṣṣah son of Marrah son of Kilāb son of Kaʻb [Mehmet Abdullah oǧlu Abdullah Abdulmuṭallib oǧlu ...] (fol. 3a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1506
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 364 (6/1. Cmtre f) ; SI
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 10a, l. 8).
The text is preceded on fol. 1a-8b by prayers (entitled "Duʻāʼ ʻinda [-- obliterated]" and "Masʼalat ʻAlī"), short excerpts from Tafsīr al-Nasafī, Tafsīr-i kabīr, Minhāj-i mutaʻallim, Mashāriq al-anwār, and several short texts, including on fol. 5a a text on a salutation formula in Turkish -sabahın hayır olsun- and its conformity to Islam (attributed to Aydīnī in Garrett no. 5380Y, to Suyūṭī in ms. Berlin 5575), on fol. 5b-6a a Risālah attributed to Ḥamzah Efendi al-Dārandawī [Darendeli], commenting on a a short text starting with "al-Ḥamdu li-Llāh alladhī jaʻala al-ʻibārah muṣiḥḥ al-saʻādah", dated 1159 H. [1746 or 7], a Taʻbīr name in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 7a, and a Faṣl fī tārik al-ṣalāh on fol. 8b.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and overlinings (occasional black). European paper with watermark.
Incipit: [مجالس الابرار] الحمد لله الذى رفع اقدار العلماء بمقدار معرفة كتابه المحكم ثم هدى المحدثين بمصابيح السنة ... وبعد هذا المكتوب بالقلم شرح لبعض صحاح الحديث المعظم -- [الرسالة المنسوبة الى حمزه] الحمد لله الذى زيّن قلوب العارفين بالعرفان والصلوة على رسوله... الذى هو معدن الايمان ... الحمد لله اى الحامدية متعلقة به والمحمودية ثابتة له -- [رسالة في حكم] الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى اعلم ان قول العوام بعد السلام بالتركية صباحك خيراولسون -- [تعبير نامه] ا دلالت ايدك حاجتى مقبول اوله -- [فصل في تاريخ الصلاة] قال النبى عليه السلام من تهاون الصلوة المفروضات اعطاه الله تعالى اثنى عشر عقوبة
End of main text as extant (fol. 183b): ويدل عليه ايضا ما روى عن عايشة رضى الله تعالى عنها ايها قالت قلت يا رسول الله ان الله تعالى اذا انزل سطوة باهل
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and embossed paper on paper pasteboards. Paper pastedowns. Covers badly worn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Baghawī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd -1117?—Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah
Hadith—Texts
Salutations—Religious aspects—Islam
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Islam—Turkey—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks
Embossed papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
383

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/feb4c0ab-ead9-491e-ae00-cea056504175/manifest