Item Summary

A work on isnād followed by the will of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī and a short treatise on reading the Qurʼan. Folio 37a has a certificate.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذ[ا] كتاب عقد الجواهر في سلاسل الاكابر ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Hādh[ā] Kitāb ʻIqd al-jawāhir fī salāsil al-akābir ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 806H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2n49td00n
Publisher
5 Jumādá al-Thānī 1282 [October 26, 1865]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1865
Format
Manuscript
Extent
37 leaves : paper ; 220 x 159 (170 x 120) mm bound to 220 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2069.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-31a: Hādh[ā] Kitāb ʻIqd al-jawāhir fī salāsil al-akābir / Muḥammad ʻAqīlah. A work tracing the chain of ascription of the traditionists who belong to the authorʼs school, begining with the author himself and going back to the Caliph ʻAlī.
2. fol. 31a-32b: Waṣiyat al-Quṭb al-Rabbānī wa-al-ghawth al-ṣamadānī. The will of Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.
3. fol. 33a-36b: Hādhā Wird al-quṭb al-rabbānī wa-al-haykal al-nūrānī shaykhī Saʻd al-Dīn al-Jabāwī. A short treatise on the offices of reading the Qurʼan after the school of Saʻd al-Dīn al-Jabāwī.
4. fol. 37a: [Certificate] Issued by Muḥammad al-Saʻdī al-Jabāwī al-Shaybānī to Saʻīd al-Kātib.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 37 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents with "FF Palazzuoli") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 5 Jumādá al-Thānī 1282 (fol. 36b). Appears to be in the same hand except perhaps for the certificate, which is presumably written by al-Jabawī.
Incipit: [عقد الجواهر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الموجود قبل ظهور المظاهر المنفرد لذاته في غيب قدم الوجود ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الي مولاه الغنى به عمن سواه محمد ابن احمد ابن سعيد ابن مسعود هذه سلاسل مشايخي ... -- [وصية] والفرد الرحماني الجامع الاشتات المعاني سعدي الشيخ محي الدين عبد القادر الكيلاني ... -- [ورد القطب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبعد ما اخذته من شيخي الشيخ محمد ابن سعد الدين الشاغوري رحمه الله تعالى ...
Explicit: [عقد الجواهر] والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم بسليما كثيرا الي يوم الدين والحمد لله رب العالمية -- [وصية] تمت بعون الله تعالى اللهم اغفر لكاتبها وقاريها ولمن نظر فيها وسترعيب كاتبها ولجميع من طالعها واستفاد منها ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والحمد لله رب العالمين امين -- [ورد القطب] تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيقه 5 جماد الثاني سنة 1282
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue-green marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Muslim scholars—Intellectual life—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Authorities—Early works to 1800
Wills, Ethical—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Reading—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
Certificates
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
85

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/462ba515-1162-4bdd-90a9-dfd671fc1ac6/manifest