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Subject(s)

• ʻIrāqī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn 1325-1404—Alfīyat al-ʻIrāqī [Browse]
• عراقي، عبد الرحيم بن الحسين—الفية العراقي [Browse]
• Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary by the author on his Alfīyah, a versification of Kitāb Maʻrifat anwāʻ al-ʻulūm or Muqaddimah fī ʻulūm al-ḥadīth, a treatise on ḥadīth by Ibn al-Salāḥ al-Shahrazūrī (d. 643/1243). The versification was completed in Medina on Thursday 3 Jumādá II 768 [Feb. 1367], the commentary in Cairo on Saturday 29 Ramaḍān 771 [April 1370] (see end of text, fol. 245a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 19 lines per page. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red (first 24 leaves in medium small naskh). Ḥāshiyah by the same hand as the main text on the margin. Soft dark cream paper with pulp, laid and chain lines visible (first 24 leaves on European glazed paper with watermark).
• Copied by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-...(?), and completed on Thursday 14 Ṣafar 868 [Oct. 1463] (colophon, fol. 245a).
• Collation: Paper, fol. 245 ; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁴ (later addition, on European paper) 4-24¹⁰ 25¹⁰ (+1, fol. 245) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals and ordinals, the latter in the form "al-rābiʻ" (see fol. 25a), from the fourth quire on ; from the eleventh quire on, Arabic numerals only (see fol. 95a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي قبل بصحيح النيّة حسن العمل وحمل الضعيف المنقطع على مراسيل لطفه فاتصل ورفع ... وبعد فعلم الحديث خطير وقعه كثير
• Explicit: وافضل الصلاه والسلام على النبي سيد الانام ش اي وكملت هذه الارجوزة بطيبة مدينة سيدنا رسول الله ... وكان الفراغ منها يوم الخميس ثالث جمادى الاخرة سنة ثمان وستّين وسبعماية ... وكمل هذا الشرح عليها في يوم السبت التاسع والعشرين من شهر رمضان المعطم قدره سنة احدى وسبعين وسبعماية بالخانقاه الطشتمرية خارج القاهرة واجرت لكل من سمع مني الارجوزة المذكورة او بعضها ان يروي على جميع هذا الشرح عليها وجميع ما يجوز لي وعني روايته

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower cover, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a blind-stamped central mandorla linked by an horizontal and a vertical single fillet to the outer border, which consists of blind tooled fillets. Similar border on the envelope flap with a smaller stamp on its point. The fore-edge flap is too narrow for the text block. Red dyed paper doublure. Spine broken and partly wanting. Disbound.

Provenance

Ownership statement and inscriptions on fol. 245b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 538
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 360 (19/1. Versif. b. Cmt. alpha) and SI.

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

122930959

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