Science of Traditions [IO Islamic 2347]

Science of Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2347 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 197 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 197. 2347. Size 71/2 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 44. Thirteen lines in a page. الالفیة A treatise in verse on the Science of Tradition, by ‘Abd al-raḥîm b. al- Ḥusain Atharî ‘IRÂḲÎ (d. A. H. 806), composed in A. H. 768. It is chiefly an abstract of the علوم الحدیث of Ibn al- Ṣalâḥ (d. A. H. 643). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 416, and Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 82. Well written, by Abu’l-su’ûd b. Izz al-dîn المنوفی, and dated Thursday, 2nd Dhûl-ḥijjah, 1146. With vowel-points. The headings in the Thulth character. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang. [College of Fort William, 1825.]