Mukhtaṣar al-Nafi

Mukhtaṣar al-Nafi (مختصر النافع) is an important concise work of Twelver Shia (Jaʿfari) jurisprudence by the distinguished thirteenth-century jurist al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī (Jaʿfar ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥillī). The work presents a systematic treatment of Islamic legal rulings and became an influential text within the Imami Shia jurisprudential tradition. This manuscript copy, preserved by Princeton University Library as Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 128, consists of 99 leaves and is written in black naskh script by multiple hands on glazed European paper. The manuscript includes catchwords, and several leaves are detached with evidence of mild staining. Princeton dates the manuscript to Jumādā II 1254 AH (1838 CE).