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Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah : manuscript
Creator
نووي، 1233-1277.
Title
Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah : manuscript / Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī.
كتاب الأربعين النووية : مخطوطة / أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي.
Production
Place not identified, 18th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (19 leaves) ; 25 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from folio 1a.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah, al-awḥad al-wariʻ, al-qudwah al-ḥāfiẓ, Muḥyī al-Dīn, muftī al-Muslimīn, ʻālim al-ʻulamāʼ, awḥad al-ʻālamīn, Abū Zakarīyā, Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Marwī ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn al-Nawawī al-Shāfiʻī, akrama Allāh tharāh wa-jaʻala al-jannah maʼwāh: al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, qayyūm al-samāwāt wa-al-araḍīn, mudabbir al-khalāʼiq ajmaʻīn, bāʻith al-rusul, ṣalawāt Allāh wa-salāmuhu ʻalayhim ajmaʻīn, ilá al-mukallafīn, li-hidāyatihim wa-bayān sharāʼiʻ al-dīn bi-al-dilālāt al-qaṭʻīyah wa-wāḍiḥāt al-barāhīn ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم، وبه نستعين. قال الشيخ الإمام العالم العلامة، الأوحد الورع، القدوة الحافظ، محيي الدين، مفتي المسلمين، عالم العلماء، أوحد العالمين، أبو زكريا، يحيى بن شرف المروي بن حسن بن حسين النووي الشافعي، أكرم الله ثراه وجعل الجنة مأواه: الحمد لله رب العالمين، قيّوم السماوات والأرضين، مدبّر الخلائق أجمعين، باعث الرسل، صلوات الله وسلامه عليهم أجمعين، إلى المكلفين، لهدايتهم وبيان شرائع الدين بالدلالات القطعية وواضحات البراهين ..."
Secundo folio: jamīʻ niʻamihi wa-asʼaluhu.
بداية الورقة الثانية: جميع نعمه وأسأله.
16 x 22.8 cm; written surface: 7x12; 13 lines per page.
Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap.
In good and clear naskh script, in black ink, on white thick paper; headings in red, numerous commentaries on the margins; catchwords.
On folio 1a: "Kitāb al-Arabʻīn al-Nawawīyah. Raḥima Allāh muʼallifahā wa-nafaʻanā bi-ʻulūmihi fī al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah."
على وجه الورقة 1: "كتاب الأربعين النووية. رحم الله مؤلفها ونفعنا بعلومه في الدنيا والآخرة. والحمد لله وحده."
On folio 1a: Three verses of poetry recording in "ḥisāb al-jummal" (alphabetical reckoning) the date of birth, the date of death and age of the four Sunnī Islamic law scholars: Abū Ḥanīfah, Anas ibn Mālik, Ibn Ḥanbal and al-Shāfiʻī, with numerical calculations.
On folio 1a: Two Ḥadīths, one Nabawī and one "Qudsī" (a saying of the Prophet Muhammad in which the meaning is revealed by God and the phrasing is formulated by the Prophet)
Colophon: "Qāla al-Shaykh, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu: Fa-hādhā ākhir mā qaṣadtuhu min bayān al-Aḥādīth allatī jamaʻat qawāʻid al-Islām wa-taḍammanat mā lā yuḥṣá min anwāʻ al-ʻulūm fī al-uṣūl wa-al-furūʻ, wa-al-ādāb, wa-sāʼir wujūh al-aḥkām. Wa-hā anā adhkuru bāban mukhtaṣaran jayyidan [jiddan] fī ḍabṭ alfāẓihā murattabatan, liallā yughlaṭa fī shayʼ minhā, wa-yastaghnī bi-hā ḥāfiẓuhā ʻan murājaʻat ghayrihi fī ḍabṭihā. Wa-lillāh al-ḥamd awwalan wa-ākhiran, wa-ẓāhiran wa-bāṭinan. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn. Tamma. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. Tamm."
الخاتمة: "قال الشيخ، رضي الله عنه: فهذا آخر ما قصدته من بيان الأحاديث التي جمعت قواعد الإسلام وتضمنت ما لا يحصى من أنواع العلوم في الأصول والفروع، والآداب، وسائر وجوه الأحكام. وها أنا اذكر بابًا مختصرًا جيدًا [جدًا] في ضبط ألفاظها مرتبةً، لئلّا يغلط في شيء منها، ويستغني بها حافظها عن مراجعة غيره في ضبطها. ولله الحمد أولًا وآخرًا، وظاهرًا وباطنًا. والحمد لله رب العالمين. آمين. تم. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم. آمين. تم."
Translation of the colophon: "The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said: This is the end of what I intended to demonstrate about the Ḥadīths which summarized the edicts of Islam and included numerous kinds of sciences, the principals and the subsidiaries, the ethical and the different rules. I am also introducing a very short chapter, enumerating alphabetically the technical terms it contained, so that no one will err in any of them, and the memorizer will have no need to refer to someone else to scrutinize it. Praise be to God, in the beginning and at the end, inwardly and outwardly. Praise be to God, Lord of the Universe. Amen. It is completed. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, his family and his companions and grant them peace. Amen. It is completed."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
al-Arabaʻūn al-Nawawīyah, a collection of forty Ḥadīths (deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad), intended to summarize the Islamic doctrines, selected by al-Nawawī (1233-1277), a well-known and prolific Muslim scholar from the village of Nawá, in Ḥawrān (Syria), an authority on Ḥadīth and Islamic law. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Variant and related titles
Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah
أربعون النووية
Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah
أربعين النووية
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2018
References
Nawawī, Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Nawawī, Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 18th century.
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