Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Baghdādī, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• بغدادي، علي بن احمد، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 770H [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of traditions according to Barīrah, the maid servant of ʻĀʼishah, the Prophetʼs wife.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 19b).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Baghdādī (fol. 19b). Probably from the XVIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي ... وبعد فهذا مختصرخال من حشو الکلام يشتمل على ما قل يستنبط من حديث بريرة رضي الله عنها من الفوايد والاحكام ...
• Colophon: کملت الفوائد الغزيرة من حديث بريرة والحمد لله حق حمده وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه وعبده وذلك على يد افقر عبيد الله واحوجهم الى غفران ربه الهادي علي ابن احمد بن علي بن البغدادي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولمن احسن اليه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة ولکل المسلمين اجمعين امين

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1417.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

حديث بريرة

Title from label on upper cover

• Ḥadīth Barīrah

OCLC

1372885237

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