Item Summary

The first volume of al-Mujtabá, an abridgment of Kitāb al-Sunan, a collection of traditions by Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Azdī al-Sijistānī.

Descriptive Information

Title
مختصر السنن للامام الحافظ ابي داود سليمان بن الاشعث السجستاني / اختصر عبد العظيم المنذري.
Transliterated Title
Mukhtaṣar al-Sunan lil-Imām al-ḥāfiẓ Abī Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Sijistānī / ikhtaṣara ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm al-Mundhirī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 703H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd217r149k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Extent
170 leaves : paper ; 265 x 193 (175 x 130) mm bound to 260 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1366.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 623.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 412/3.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. The title appears on the edges.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 170 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from XlVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من قال لا اله الا الله من قلبه دخل الجنة ...
Colophon: تم والحمد لله وحده تم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper. Covers in poor condition.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
348

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/9890958a-c265-4dff-baaa-6da50d7531c8/manifest