Arabic miscellany

Title:

Arabic miscellany

Alternative title:

Majmūʻah fī manāqib al-aʼimmah wa-al-khulafāʼ al-arbaʻah

Contributor:

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 207H
Scribe: Baḍghānī, Burhān al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, active 17th century

Date:

1648-1230

Description:

Abstract: Short biographies of the great Muslim Imāms and the four orthodox caliphs. It contains the lives of Abū Ḥanīfah 699-767, Mālik ibn Anas 713-795, al-Shāfiʻī 767-820 and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal 780-855, after which occurs a section on the love of God followed by one on the virtues of the four orthodox caliphs. This is followed by a section on the asceticism of Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī, one on the excellences of ʻĀshūrāʼ, one on the birth of the Prophet, one on prayer and a section on the death of the Prophet. Following the colophon, further chapters are added on the Nile, saints, and in eulogy of the Prophet, apparently in the same hand.Binding note: Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-6a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām Abū ḤanīfahContents: 2. fol. 6a-10a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Imām al-Mālik ibn Anas.Contents: 3. fol. 10a-15b: Faṣl fī manāqib al-Shāfiʻī.Contents: 4. fol. 15b-19b: Faṣl fi manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.Contents: 5. fol. 20a-29b: Bāb fī maḥabbat Allāh.Contents: 6. fol. 29b-35a: Faṣl fī manāqib al-khulafā al-arbāʻah.Contents: 7. fol. 35a-38b: Faṣl fī manāsik al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Abī ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī.Contents: 8. fol. 38b-40b: Bāb fī faḍl ʻāshūrā.Contents: 9. fol. 40b-45b: Bāb fī mawlid Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 10. fol. 45b-50b: Bāb fī faḍl al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūl Allāh.Contents: 11. fol. 50b-57a: Bāb fī wafāt al-Nabī.Contents: 12. fol. 57b-60b: Faṣl fī dhikr Nīl Miṣr.Contents: 13. fol. 61a-88a: Faṣl fī dhikr al-awliyāʼ al-abrār wa-al-ṣāliḥīn wa-al-fuqarā al-akhyārīn.Contents: 14. fol. 88b-89b: Madīḥ fī al-Nabī ʻ.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Collation: Paper ; fol. 89 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 17-19 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; entries in red, green and yellow ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness and foxed, a few folios are mended.Origin: According to colophon copied 14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1058 by Burhān al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mubārak al-Dāribī sic al-Baḍghānī (fol. 57a).Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل العلم للعلماء انساب انساباColophon: ووافق الفراغ من تعليق هذا الکتاب المبارك نهار الجمعة رابع عشر الحجة سنة ثمانية وخمسين والف وکتبه الفقير الى الله تعالى برهان الدين بن محمد بن احمد بن مبارك الداربي البضغاني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة والرحمة ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين آمين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Headbands (Binding)
Watermarks (Paper)
Biography
Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Caliphs—Biography—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Extent:

89 leaves : paper ; 211 x 153 (188 x 135) mm. bound to 211 x 161 mm.

Publisher:

14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1058 December 30, 1648

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

"<a href='http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2227n047z' alt='Identifier'>http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2227n047z</a>"

Is part of:

Middle East Manuscripts
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

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