• نصاب الاحتساب. المنبهات على الاستعداد ليوم المعاد
• Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb. al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād.

Collections:

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

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9953911213506421

Language:

• Arabic

Creator:

• Sanāmī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAwaḍ.
• سنامي، عمر بن محمد بن عوض

Call number:

• Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5021Y
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 82 leaves: paper ; 194 x 135 (150 x 80) mm. bound to 194 x 142 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, from title of Text 1 (preamble of text, fol. 3b) and title of Text 2 (beginning of text, fol. 70b). The title of text 1 also appears with mention of the author in an inscription on fol. 3a, apparently in the same hand as the ownership statement in the name of Nūḥādī Zādah on the left margin. The name of the author of text 2 appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 70b).
• Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark. Inscriptions and short excerpts from several texts, including Tabyīn al-maḥārim [by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Amāsī, d. 1000/1591 or 2?] and Abū al-Saʻūd Afandī on fol. 1a-b, 3a, 81b. Verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 82b. Table of contents of Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb on fol. 2a-b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf; quinions.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 14". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "640/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy of text 1 completed on 21 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1070 [Feb. 3, 1660] by Muṣtafá ibn Aḥmad (fol. 70a). Text 2 apparently by the same hand.
• Copyist: Muṣtafá ibn Aḥmad.

Publisher:

• [1660]

Subject:

• Muhtasib—Early works to 1800
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800
• Future life—Islam—History of doctrines—15th century—Sources
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Title sort:

• Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb. al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād.

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Binding note:

• Quarter bound in marbled paper and golden brown leather. Yellow paper pastedowns, with inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance:

• Ownership statement in the name of Nūḥādī Zādah on fol. 3a (erased). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition:

• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References:

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1089, 2123
• Partington, David H. The Nisab Al-Ihtisab, an Arabic religio-legal text. PhD Dissertation. Princeton University, 1961.

Author:

• Sanāmī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAwaḍ.

Created:

• 1660-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1660

Abstract:

• Collection of two treatises: (1) a treatise on iḥtisāb according to the Ḥanafī legal school, in 64 chapters (bāb), by al-Sunāmī (dates uncertain, Brockelmann: after 993/1585 in Bukhārā ; Ziriklī: d. 696/1297 ; M. Izzi Dien: 7th-8th c./13th-14th c.) ; (2) a work on maʻād by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī (d. 852/1449).

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/bg257h66k

Location:

• HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5021Y
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5021Y
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Type:

• Early works to 1800
• Sources

Uniform title:

• Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb. 1660
• نصاب الاحتساب

Contents:

• 1. fol. 2a-70a: Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb / ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Sunāmī (or Sanāmī).
• 2. fol. 70b-81a: al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥajar [al-ʻAsqalānī].

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