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Manuscript/Mixed Material Jamʻ al-nihāyah fī badʼ al-khayr wa-al-ghāyah جمع النهاية في بدء الخير والغاية / Title on fol. 1a: Hādhā matn Mukhtaṣar Ibn Abī Jamrah ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl wa-al-ḥamdu li-llāh ʻalá kulli ḥāl

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Title

  • Jamʻ al-nihāyah fī badʼ al-khayr wa-al-ghāyah

Other Title

  • جمع النهاية في بدء الخير والغاية
  • Title on fol. 1a: Hādhā matn Mukhtaṣar Ibn Abī Jamrah ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl wa-al-ḥamdu li-llāh ʻalá kulli ḥāl

Summary

  • Abridgement and commentary on Bukhārī's Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ.

Names

  • ʻAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jamrah, -1300
  • ʻAdawī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUbādah, -1779 or 1780, scribe
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1172 [1758 or 1759]

Headings

  • -  Hadith--Texts--Early works to 1800
  • -  Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl,--810-870.--Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from colophon.
  • -  Written by Muḥammad ibn ʻUbādah al-Birrī al-ʻAdawī al-Mālikī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lighly polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink some rubrication; text is partially vocalized; all margins annotated; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SI, p. 635.1
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 14.5 x 7 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-65b.
  • -  "7. II 477 = 2.137."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 2-137.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. يقول العبد الفقير الى ربه عبد الله بن سعد بن أبي جمرة الازدي عفى الله عنه وكرمه الحمد لله حق حمده زالصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من تعليق هذه النسخة المباركة على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى الله تعالى محمد بن عبادة البري العدوي المالكي سنة الف وماية اثنين وسبعين.

Medium

  • 65 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 24 x 17.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP135 .A122 1758

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496322

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Jamrah, -1300, Muḥammad Ibn ʻUbādah ʻAdawī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Jamʻ Al-Nihāyah Fī Badʼ Al-Khayr Wa-Al-Ghāyah. [1758 or 1759, 1172] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496322/.

APA citation style:

ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Jamrah, -., ʻAdawī, M. I. ʻ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1172) Jamʻ Al-Nihāyah Fī Badʼ Al-Khayr Wa-Al-Ghāyah. [1758 or 1759] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496322/.

MLA citation style:

ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Jamrah, -1300, et al. Jamʻ Al-Nihāyah Fī Badʼ Al-Khayr Wa-Al-Ghāyah. [1758 or 1759, 1172] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496322/>.