Item Summary

Careful copy of two texts, one on iḥtisāb, the other on faith.

Descriptive Information

Title
نصاب الاحتساب. الرسالة الركنية في كلمة الشهادة.
Transliterated Title
Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb. al-Risālah al-Ruknīyah fī kalimat al-shahādah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5004Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3j333484x
Publisher
[17--? or 18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
75 leaves: paper ; 203 x 132 (164 x 80) mm bound to 205 x 135 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1089, 2368
Partington, David H. The Nisab Al-Ihtisab, an Arabic religio-legal text. PhD Dissertation. Princeton University, 1961.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-75b: Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb / ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Sunāmī.
2. fol. 77b-94b: al-Risālah al-Ruknīyah fī kalimat al-shahādah / Rukn al-Dīn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī. Short treatise on faith, also known as "Sharḥ kalimat al-shahādatayn"
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a.
Occasional note, some in Turkish and Persian. Magic square on fol. 1a. Two labels pasted on the upper cover, with inscription in Arabic script, reading respectively: "Ḥ 34" and 172. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 960".
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks.
Origin: The copy is not dated. Probably 12th-13th/18-19th century.
Incipit: [الرسالة الركنية] الحمد لله الظاهر وجوده بشهادة الكائنات الباطن كنه هويته لتعذر معرفته ... قال العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى عبيد الله بن محمد بن عبد العزيز السمرقندى تغمده الله سبحانه بجلابيب معرفته
Explicit: [الرسالة الركنية] فاما من اعطى واتق وصدّق بالحسنىفيسره لليسرى واما من نجل واستغنى وكذب بالحسنى فيسره للعسرى تمت الركنية والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة ... الطيبين الطاهرين قال عيسى عليه السلام يا مالح الارض لا تفسدوا فى الارض فان الملح اذا فسد لا يصلحه لشي
Binding Note
Quater-bound with flap in marbled paper and golden-brown leather. Dark-orange dyed paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥtasib
Islamic law
Hanafites
Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
magic squares
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
101

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5eba4172-dba6-4234-99e0-91ddb0776adb/manifest