Item Summary

A commentary on Ḥizb al-fatḥ wa-al-najāḥ, a prayer by Muḥammad ibn Shuʻayb.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب تحفة اولي الفلاح بشرح حزب الفتح والنجاح / ابراهيم بن مسعود.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Tuḥfat ūlī al-falāḥ bi-sharḥ Ḥizb al-fatḥ wa-al-najāḥ / Ibrāhīm ibn Masʻūd.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 325L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2f75rn36x
Publisher
26 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1193 [January 4, 1780]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1780
Format
Manuscript
Extent
62 leaves : paper ; 235 x 165 (166 x 103) mm bound to 240 x 175 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1972.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Insert with a description of the manuscript.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 62 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition; title page repaired.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 26 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1193 by ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Sharīf al-Ṣahrajtī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 62a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي من علينا بسيدنا محمد ... اما بعد فيقول احقر عباد ربه الرحيم الودود الفقير العاجز ابراهيم ابن مسعود الروض الشافعي ثم الاحمدي الشعيبي الششتري قد التمس مني بعض اخواني ان اضح لهم شرحا علي ورد استاذي ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الثلاث المبارك نهار ستة وعشر[ين] خلت من شهر ذي الحجة سنة 1193 سنة ثلاثة وتسعون مائة والف من هجرته صلى الله عليه وسلم على يد کاتبه عبد المجيد الشريف الصهرجتي الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red letaher and brown spotted paper. Gold-stamped bands on spine. Covering of spine is loose revealing printed page in French.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shuʻaybī, Muḥammad ibn Shuʻayb -approximately 1621—Ḥizb al-fatḥ wa-al-najāḥ
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
136

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fb13dab8-b5a5-4161-924d-6e91bb4b65ac/manifest