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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb matn al-Arbaʻīn ḥadīth al-Nawawīyah كتاب متن الاربعين حديث النووية

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Title

  • Kitāb matn al-Arbaʻīn ḥadīth al-Nawawīyah

Other Title

  • كتاب متن الاربعين حديث النووية

Summary

  • Nawawī's collection of forty hadith; closes with a poem "Fāyidah ʻan al-Imām".

Names

  • Nawawī, 1233-1277
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [early 19th century?]

Headings

  • -  Hadith--Texts
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper: cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 396.9
  • -  Naskh; 9 lines in written area 8 x 4.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-61a.
  • -  "H-0257 = 1.349."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-349.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمينز قيوم السموات والارضين مدبر الخلايق اجمعين ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (fol. 59a-b: فهذا اخر ما قصدته من بيان الاحاديث التي جمعت قواعد الاسلام وتضمنت ما ال يحطى من انواع العلوم في الاصول والفروع والاداب وساير وجوه الاحكام. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم.

Medium

  • 61 leaves (9 lines), paper : bound ; 10.5 x 7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP135.A3 N27 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481020

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Nawawī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb matn al-Arbaʻīn ḥadīth al-Nawawīyah. [Early 19th Century?, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481020/.

APA citation style:

Nawawī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1800) Kitāb matn al-Arbaʻīn ḥadīth al-Nawawīyah. [Early 19th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481020/.

MLA citation style:

Nawawī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb matn al-Arbaʻīn ḥadīth al-Nawawīyah. [Early 19th Century?, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481020/>.