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Subject(s)

• Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá -892—Shamāʼil [Browse]
• ترمذي، محمد بن عيسى—شمائل [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Shamāʾil Nabawīyah by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892). The work was originally completed in Mecca ("fī al-Ḥaram al-Muḥtaram al-Makkī") in the middle of Shaʻbān 1008 -- colophon (fol. 308a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. Aa.
• The text of the colophon is the same as the one in the original written by al-Harawī in 1600.
• 29 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Text within a single-line frame in red ink. Ff. Cb-Da: table of contents grid ruled in red ink with a floral head-piece in red and blue ink. Ff. Ba and Db empty grids ruled in red ink. Use of gold leaf for underlined words and headings on ff. 23b-26b. European glazed paper. Extensive marginal notes in the same hand as the main text. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink, starts on fol. 1a.
• Evidence of ownership seal on ff. Eb and 1a. Label in Arabic on inside of upper cover: "Ḥ 76". Label in Arabic on upper cover: "Ḥadīth 28".
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى خلق الخلق والاخلاق ... اما بعد فيقول افقرعباد الله الغنى البارى على بن سلطان محمد القاري لما كان موضوع علم الحديث ذات النبى
• Explicit: سبحانه اعلم تحقيقا وبعونه يوجد العلم توفيقا والحمد لله اولا واخرا والصلاة و السلام على صاحب المقام المحمود باطنا وظاهرا

Binding note

Leather with gold tooled borders and central stamp on upper and lower covers. Leather paste-downs with gold tooling and central stamp on inside of lower cover.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4497.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 162 (II, cmt. 5)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 268 (II, cmt. 5)

Other format(s)

• Microfilm available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

76168294

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