Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-faqīh.

من لا يحضره الفقيه

Description

Main Author

Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 918 or 919-991 or 992

Related Names

Mūsā ibn Yūsuf Naṣr Allāh al-Māzandarānī , transcriber
McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies.

Language(s)

Arabic

Published

Ṣafar - Rab.I 993 [1585]

Subjects

Shiites.
Islamic law.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscrits arabes > Manuscrits arabes / Québec (Province) > Manuscrits arabes / Québec (Province) / Montréal.
Chiites > Chiites / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Droit islamique > Droit islamique / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Québec (Province) > Manuscripts, Arabic / Québec (Province) / Montréal.
Shiites > Shiites / Early works to 1800.
Islamic law > Islamic law / Early works to 1800.
Québec > Québec / Montréal.
Early works.

Summary

It is a ḥadīth collection, by the famous Twelver Shī'a scolar Abū Ja'far Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Bābawaih al-Qummī, commonly known as Ibn Bābawayh or Al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq. This work is included among The Four Books of Twelver Shī'a Islam.

Note

Text collated (buligha muqābalatan).
Some folios supplied in Jumada I 1252/1836 (laid European paper, Watermark: 1. stag courant; Polleri; 2. Fortune, Thomas C.)
Copied by Mūsā ibn Yūsuf Naṣr Allāh al-Māzandarānī (f.116a, 233b).
Catch words, marginal glosses.
Elegant Persian hand, three illuminated headpiece, rule-borders.
21 lines per page, laid oriental paper, rubricated.
Copy date and copyist's name from the colophon.
Manuscript
Seal (f.1a): Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Muḥammad bāqir al-Mūsawī.

Physical Description

934 unnumbered pages ; 28 x 16 cm

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