Item Summary

Collection of texts and short excerpts in the handwriting of Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Shaykh al-Islām al-Badr al-Ghazzī (1570-1651), dated 1010 H. (see fol. 85b).

Descriptive Information

Title
مجموعة فوائد.
Transliterated Title
Majmūʻat fawāʼid.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 598Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xg94hp60q
Publisher
1010 [1601 or 1602]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1601
Format
Manuscript
Extent
171 leaves : paper ; 207 x 142 mm bound to 218 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 3a-4a, one in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān known as Ibn al-Ghazzī, dated 1121 H. [1709 or 10]). Several reading statements on fol. 171b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 686, 687, 796, 797, 798, 1481, 1482, 1515, 1828, 1915, 2000, 2045, 2063, 2105, 2365, 2466, 2549, 2661, 2670, 2685, 2822, 3027.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Raml; fāʼidah; seal and date (16 Rajab [1]215)].
2. fol. 1b: [Verses of poetry].
3. fol. 3a-b: [Table of contents; ownership statement].
4. fol. 4a: [Description of contents; ownership statement].
5. fol. 5a-7a: [Several short texts and excerpts].
6. fol. 7b-8a: Muntaqá min al-Jawhar al-munaẓẓam fī ziyārat al-qabr al-mukarram / Ibn Ḥajar.
7. fol. 8a-10a: Kitāb Manthūr al-khiṭāb fī mashhūr al-abwāb / ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī.
8. fol. 10b-11a: Muntaqá min Kitāb al-zuhd / al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī.
9. fol. 11a-12a: Muntaqá min Futūḥ al-ghayb / al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī [al-Jīlānī].
10. fol. 12b-15a: al-Mufīd min al-tajrīd / al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Ṭībī.
11. fol. 15b-20b: Tajrīd al-tawḥīd / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Treatise on the signification of the kalimat al-tawḥīd, "lā ilāha illā Allāh". Incomplete at end.
12. fol. 21a-22b: [Blank, except for two inscriptions].
13. fol. 23a-23b: [Excerpts mentioning ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī [Jīlānī] and ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Zayd].
14. fol. 23b-25a: Muntaqá min Kitāb Tuḥfat al-khullān wa-ʻumdat al-ikhwān / Abū Bakr ibn Dāwūd al-Ḥanbalī.
15. fol. 25b-44a: Muntahá al-āmāl fī sharḥ ḥadīth innamā al-aʻmāl / al-Suyūṭī. Commentary on a tradition on intent (nīyah) in actions.
16. fol. 44b-45b: al -tMaradd fī karāhat al-suʼāl wa-al-radd / al-Suyūṭī.
17. fol. 45b-46b: Masāʼil min fatāwā al-Suyūṭī / al-Suyūṭī.
18. fol. 46b-47b: al- Qawl al-jalī fī ḥadīth al-walī / al-Suyūṭī. Commentary on a ḥadīth qudsī, known as "ḥadīth al-walī".
19. fol. 47b-49a: Abwāb al-saʻādah fī asbāb al-shahādah / al-Suyūṭī. Collection of ḥadīth on martyrdom.
20. fol. 49a-51a: Ḥadīth Kalimatāni khafīfatāni ʻalá al-lisān thaqīlatāni fī al-mīzān / Muḥammad ibn al-Humām. Commentary on a ḥadīth.
21. fol. 51a-52b: [Commentary on a ḥadīth, quoting al-Ṭībī and the author of the Kashshāf [al-Zamakhsharī], perhaps corresponding in the table of contents (fol. 3a) to the heading: Masāʼil min fatāwā al-Suyūṭī].
22. fol. 53a-b: Kitāb al-Inṣāf fī tamyīz al-awqāf / al- Suyūṭī. Short treatise on a question about waqf. Copied from a faulty copy
23. fol. 53b-55b: al- Ṣabābah fī masʼalat al-istinābah / al-Suyūṭī. Treatise on a legal question regarding representation.
24. fol. 55b: Muntaqá min Kitāb Ākām al-ʻiqyān fī aḥkām al-khiṣyān / al-Suyūṭī.
25. fol. 55b-56a: Muntaqá min Kitāb al-Darārī fī ibnāʼ al-sarārī / al-Suyūṭī.
26. fol. 56b-62b. al- Tathbīt ʻind al-tabyīt / al-Suyūṭī.
27. fol. 62b-64a: al-Ḥizb al-kabīr / Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
28. fol. 64b: [Several short excerpts on Shuʻayb Abū Madyan, etc.].
29. fol. 65a-66a: Min kalām al-shaykh Abī Madyan. Sayings of Abū Madyan al-Tilimsānī.
30. fol. 66b-67a: Min al-Riʻāyah al-kubrá li-Ibn Ḥamdān.
31. fol. 67b-71b: [Excerpts from poems by ʻUbayd Allāh Ibn Qays, from the Ḥizb al-Kabīr of al-Shādhilī, from Qaʻnab Ibn Ḍamrah].
32. fol. 72a: Min Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar fī tarjamat Ibn Ḥajar / al-Safīrī.
33. fol. 72b-74a: [Verses of poetry; several short excerpts].
34. fol. 74a-85b: Muntakhab Muwāfiq al-murāfiq li-Ibn al-Jawzī.
35. fol. 86a: Min durar al-biḥār / al-Suyūṭī.
36. fol. 86b-95b: [Text on prayers to be said on specific parts of the day, especially Friday, quoting Ḥizb al-baḥr by al-Shādhilī (fol. 91a)].
37. fol. 96a: Mimmā jumiʻa min kalām al-Quṭb ... ʻAlī al-Kāzwānī [Kīzwānī; partly illegible].
38. fol. 96b: Min Durar al-biḥār / al-Suyūṭī.
39. fol. 97a-b: al-shaykh Muḥammad al-Fāriḍī al-Miṣrī muʻāriḍan li-Maqṣūrat Ibn Durayd / Muḥammad al-Fāriḍī.
40. fol. 97b: [List of title of works by al-Suyūṭī].
41. fol. 98a-b: Qitʻah min baʻḍ rasāʼil Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī.
42. fol. 99a-103b: Mukhtạsar Minhāj al-ʻĀbidīn / Muḥammad al-Balāṭunusī. Summary of the Minhāj al-ʻabidīn by al-Ghazzālī.
43. fol. 104a: Min Durar al-biḥār / [al-Suyūṭī].
44. fol. 104b-110b: Dāʻī al-falāḥ fī adhkār al-masāʼ wa-al-ṣabāḥ / al-Suyūṭī. Collection of ḥadīth on morning and night, said to have been completed on 22 Rajab 892 [1487]
45. fol. 110b-111a: Muntaqá min Kitāb Zubdat al-laban / al-Suyūṭī.
46. fol. 111a-112a: Muntaqá min Kitāb Taʼkhīr al-ẓalāmah ilá yawm al-qiyāmah / al-Suyūṭī.
47. fol. 112a-112b: Juzʼ fīhi ṭuruq ḥadīth ṭalab al-ʻilm farīḍah ʻalá kull muslim [or, from table of contents] al- Tawḍīḥ fī masʼalat al-taṣḥīḥ / al-Suyūṭī.
48. fol. 113a-: Muntaqá min al-Durrah al-tājīyah fī al-asʼilah al-nājīyah / al-Suyūṭī.
49. fol. 113b-114a: Muntaqá min Kitāb rafʻ al-khidr fī qaṭʻ al-sidr / al-Suyūṭī.
50. fol. 114b-115b: Ḥikam ʻalīyah wa-kalimāt qudsīyah / Ibn Qayṣar al-Qubaybātī.
51. fol. 116a-119b: Kitāb Maṭlaʻ al-badrayn fī-man yuʼtā ajruhu marratayn / al-Suyūṭī.
52. fol. 119b-120a: Min durar al-biḥār / [al-Suyūṭī].
53. fol. 120a-120b: Min baʻḍ kutub al-qawm. Lumʻah 3: "ʻilm al-ḥaqāʼiq ʻalá nawʻayn"; Lumʻah 4: "Qawluhu iʻlam ayyaduka Allāh."
54. fol. 120b-125a?: al- Lumʻah fī khaṣāʼiṣ yawm al-jumʻah / al-Suyūṭī. Treatise on the particularities of Friday.
55. fol. 125a: Fawāʼid min kalām al-Shaykh Mūsá al-Kināwī [title from table of contents (fol. 3b)].
56. fol. 125a-127a: al-Aḥādīth al-mutawātirah [title from table of contents (fol. 3b)].
57. fol. 127b-129a: Bulūgh al-maʼmūl fī khidmat al-rasūl / al-Suyūṭī. On homosexuality, commenting on ḥadīth texts.
58. fol. 129b-133b?: Min Kitāb nasamāt al-asḥār fī karāmāt al-awliyāʼ al-akhyār / [ʻAlī] al-Ḥamawī.
59. fol. 133b-150a: al-Dalīl wa-al-burhān ʻalá annahu laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ min ṣūrat hādhā al-ʻālam / Muḥammad ibn Ḥāmid. Treatise defending al-Ghazzālī's statement "Laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ mimmā kān", in response to al-Biqāʻī.
60. fol. 150b-152a: Min Kitāb mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar fī tarjamat Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Ḥajar / lil-ʻAllāmah Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻUmar al-Safīrī (wa-al-aṣl lil-Ḥāfidh al-Sakhāwī).
61. fol. 152b-154b: Ḥizb Sīdī ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Wafā.
62. fol. 154b-155a: Min Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar fī tarjamat Ibn Ḥajar / al-Safīrī.
63. fol. 155b-157a: [Biographic entry on al-Sharīf al-Raḍī Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mūsawī, with verses of poetry].
64. fol. 157b-158a: [Short texts and verses of poetry, some from Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar].
65. fol. 158b-159a: [Prayer] / Shuʻayb Abū Madyan al-Andalusī.
66. fol. 159a-163a: [Several short excerpts in prose and verse from Futūḥ al-ghayb by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī [Jīlānī], Ibn Khafājah al-Andalusī, Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar, etc.].
67. fol. 163b-164a: Min Kitāb Shurūṭ al-wuḍūʼ / al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar al-Sūbīnī.
68. fol. 164b-167a: [Short sayings, mostly prayers (duʻā), quoting Ibuqrāṭ [Hippocrates], Ibrāhīm ibn Adʹham, al-Shaʻwānah al-Zāhidah, Abū Ḥanīfah, al-Shādhilī, Dhū al-Qarnayn ... etc.].
69. fol. 167b-168a: [Short text on the letters used by the readers of the Qurʼān to mark specific readings].
70. fol. 168b-169a: [Short excerpts].
71. fol. 169b-171b: Manẓūmah fī dhikr man yastaḥiqq al-ḥiḍānah [followed by several short excerpts] / al-Tībī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription in gold on spine.
On fol. 3a-b and 4a: Table of contents; notes mentioning the name of the copyist; several ownership statements. Fol. 1 to 4 are fly-leaves with inscriptions. Inscription in gold on spine: "Majmūʻat fawāʼid [next line] ʻUthmān Nūrī Khaṭīb Dūmā". Inscription in Arabic on a modern label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 357." Secret/magic alphabet of Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ on fol. 171b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 171 ; catchwords ; partial pagination in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: Number of lines per page varies.
Description: Written in small naskh in black ink.
Origin: Copied 1010 by al-ʻAllāmah Shaykh al-Islām Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Shaykh al-Islām al-Badr al-Ghazzī (see fol. 3a and 4a). On fol. 150a, the name of the copyist is given as (Abū al-Ṭayyib) Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghazzī al-ʻĀmirī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī.
Binding Note
Modern quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding. Ribbon page marker. Blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Jumʻah—Early works to 1800
Creation (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Days—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Texts
Homosexuality—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Intention—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Martyrdom—Islam—Early works to 1800
Shādhilīyah—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Syria—Religious life and customs—Early works to 1800
Waqf—Early works to 1800
Ghazzī, Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1570-1651
Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1684 or 1685-1753 or 1754
Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan 837 or 838-933—Maqṣūrah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
donation inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
352

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Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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