Item Summary

Collection of ḥadīth arranged by topic.

Descriptive Information

Title
[مصابيح السنة].
Transliterated Title
[Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 711H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5m60r3892
Publisher
Jumādá al-Ūlá 902 [January/February 1497]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1497
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii + 270, ii leaves: paper ; 212 x 150 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 212 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻĀrif Ibn al-Sayyid Ismāʻīl, dated [Ramaḍā]n 1240 [April-May 1825] on fol. (ii)a. Erased waqf statement on the margin of the colophon (fol. 270b). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1373
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 363 (6/1) ; SI, 620 (6/1)
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Important marginal and interlinear annotations. Notes on pieces of paper placed between the leaves (between fol. 72 and 73, 84 an 85, 132 and 133, 136 and 137). Fol. i and ii are later added flyleaves, with an ownership statement on fol. (ii)a. Two flyleaves of the same paper at the end of the text, blank. Several inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish, including ownership statements on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper, fol. ii + 270, ii ; ii (later added flyleaves) 1-33⁸ 34⁸ (-2, end of quire) ii (later added flyleaves) ; catchword on the verso of each folio.
Layout: 12 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written in medium large script tending towards taʻlīq ; use of red for overlining and re-inking ; vocalized ; reading in black or red ink ; watermarks.
Origin: Copy completed in Jumādá al-Ūlá, Yawm al-Sabt, in 902 H. by Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (colophon, fol. 270b).
Incipit: الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى والصلوة التامة الدايمة على رسوله ... قال الشيخ الامام الاجلّ السيّد محىى السنة ناصر الحديث شيخ الاسلام ابو محمد الحسين بن مسعود البغوى الفرآ اما بعد فهذه الفاظ صدرت على صدر النبوة وسنن سارت عن معدن الرسالة
Explicit: قال رسول الله صلّى اله عليه وسلّم مثل امّتى مثل المطر لا يدرى اوله خير ام آخره
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper over paper pasteboards. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks
donation inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
568

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0b316933-4a77-487f-bcc6-8eb46761aafa/manifest