Ḥabāʾik fī akhbār al-malāʾik

Title:

Ḥabāʾik fī akhbār al-malāʾik

Creator:

Suyūṭī, 1445-1505

Date:

1654

Description:

Abstract: Collection of ḥadīths on angels.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly stamped and tooled with a central scalloped mandorla with pendants on the vertical axis and an outer border consisting of fillets and a thin guilloche. Purlpe paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Rebacked.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 21 to 24 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red ; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick European paper with watermark (Tre lune) ; glossy. Title on tail of text block. Short text on Iblīs on fol. 1a. The colophon is followed by a short saying attributed to Ibn Masʻūd (fol. 105a).Collation: Paper, fol. i, 106, i ; i (free endpaper) 1-10¹⁰ 11⁶ i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the second quire is numbered using Arabic numerals (fol. 11a).Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥadīth 10". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 484".Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn al-marḥūm shaykh al-Islām al-shaykh ʻĀmir al-SHBRLWī(?) al-Shāfiʻī for himself, and completed in the middle of Ṣafar 1064 April 1654 (fol. 105a).Copyist: ʻAlī ibn ʻĀmir al-SHBRLWī(?) al-Shāfiʻī.Incipit: بسم ... به نستعين الحمد لله جاعل الملايكة رسلا اولي اجنهة ... فهذا تاليف لطيف جمعته في اخبار الملايكة الابرار واستوعبت فيه ما وردت به الاحاديث والاثارExplicit: والمعقبات فى قوله تعالى له معقبات من بين يديه ومن خلفه اتنهى

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Angels—Islam—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad al-Fayyūmī al-Mālikī on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

i, 106, i leaves: paper ; 213 x 154 (160 x 110) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.

Publisher:

1654

Rights:

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

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 290Y
Electronic Resource
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Replaces: pudl0112/5442723

Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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