- الجزء الثاني من كتاب حلية الاولاء وطبقة الاصفياء / تصنيف الشيخ الحافظ ابي نعيم احمد بن عبد الله بن احمد الاصبهاني رحمه الله
- al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ wa-ṭabaqat al-aṣfiyāʼ / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-ḥāfiẓ Abī Nuʻaym Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣbahānī raḥimahu Allāh.
- Language:
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- Arabic
- Extent:
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- 288 leaves: paper ; 250 x 160 (195 x 125) mm. bound to 250 x 170 mm.
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- 23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red. Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements, written in casual naskh. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b.
- According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 [Aug. 22, 1199] by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a).
- Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5--.
- Incipit: قال الشيخ رحمه الله قد اتينا على من ذكرهم الشيخ ابو عبد الرحمن السلمي ونسبهم الى [م]توطين الصفه ونزولها
- Explicit: ومنهم الوامق الولهان الواعظ اليقضان ابو همام شميط بن عجلان ... [286ب] ... فتبقي شجرة ولا مدده ولا تراب ولا شى الّا استجلي البكا لقلّه ذاكري الله في ذلك المكان اخر الجزء الثاني من كتاب حليه الاوليا رضى الله عنهم يتلوه ان شا الله تعالي في الثالث ذكر طبقه من تابعي المدينه من المعروفين بالتعبّد والتلسّك
- Publisher:
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- [1199]
- Subject:
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- Sufis—Biography—10th century
- Sufis—Biography—11th century
- Muslim saints—Biography—10th century
- Muslim saints—Biography—11th century
- Muslim scholars—Certification—History—12th century—Sources
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Date:
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- 1199
- Author:
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- Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038
- Abstract:
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- Second part of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad [ibn al-Ḥaddād] al-Iṣfahānī and Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. The text is followed by an audition statement (samāʻ note, fol. 287a)
- Creator:
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- Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038
- ابو نعيم الاصبهاني، احمد بن عبد الله
- Contributor:
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- سهروردي، عمر بن محمد
- Collections:
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- Robert Garrett
- Middle East Manuscripts
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/2n49tb22p
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- References:
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- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 670
- Binding note:
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- Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central medallion and an elaborate outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of small stamps. Leather doublure. Traces of a now lost fore-edge flap.
- Provenance:
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- Several ownership statements and one seal on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥusaynī, one in the name of Ismāʻīl Ibn al-ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ibn Tājah. Reading statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn ... ibn ʻAbbās ibn Ḥabīb on fol. 288b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1900.
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
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