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Title

Kitāb Faḍāʾil ahl al-bayt.
كتاب فضائل اهل البيت

Call number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2406Yq
(Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton University Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6265688
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/714893692
• http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9k41zd912

Publisher

Princeton University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Place

1669

Summary

Acephalous anon. work by a Zaydī author of the 6th/7th cent. H. There are frequent references to Shams al-Dīn Jaʻfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Salām (d. 573/ 1177: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 508) from whom the author received traditions. The book is divided into ten bābs (the beginning of the first bāb is missing).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from upper edge.
   
• On fol. 1a: "al-Sīrah li-Yaḥyá al-Zaydī" in pencil in Arabic script.
   
• Ms. erroneously foliated: second leaf is skipped. Record follows erroneous numbering.
   
• Physical description: 33 lines per page; written in small naskhi in black on white glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text framed in red border. Headings in large red script. A few marginal notes and corrections. Text on fol. 2a-97b.
   

Extent

100 leaves : 299 x 205 (211 x 127) mm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Robert Garrett, Class of 1897,
   
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
   

Subjects topical

• Muḥammad,--Prophet,---632--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Muḥammad,--Prophet,---632--Family--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Zaydīs--Biography--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• leaf 2 a — [al-Bāb al-awwal]
• leaf 4 a — al-Bāb al-thānī fī al-ḥaml bi-hi wa-mawlidih
• leaf 10 b — al-Bāb al-thālith fī riḍāʻatih
• leaf 14 a — al-Bāb al-rābiʻ fī mabʻathih
• leaf 21 b — al-Bāb al-khāmis fī nikāḥih
• leaf 24 b — al-Bāb al-sādis fī faḍl Fāṭimah
• leaf 29 a — al-Bāb al-sābiʻ fī dhikr azwājih
• leaf 64 a — al-Bāb al-thāmin fī faḍl ʻAlī
• leaf 79 b — al-Bāb al-ʻāshir fī akhbār Abī al-Ḥusayn Zaydi ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn
• leaf 97 b — Colophon