Dictionaries [IO Islamic 1789]

Dictionaries.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1789 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1023 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1023.

1789. Size 12 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 894. Twenty-five lines in a page.

کتاب مجمع البحار (بحار.r) الانوار فی غرائب التنزیل و لطائف الاخبار تالیف شیخ الاسلام قطب الزمان سیدنا و مولانا محمد طاهر بن طاهر المحدّث العلّامة (الحنفی الشامی ثم الکجراتی1) الهندی ثم الفتنی الخ.

A large Dictionary to the Koran and the Traditions, by MUḤAMMAD ṬÂHIR, a native of Pattan in Gujarât (d. A.H. 986). See Ḥ. Kh. v. 394, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 756.

This work is partly based upon Ibn al-Athîr’s النهایة, above mentioned (no. 999). It consists of three parts, each of which has its own Ḥamdalah and conclusion. The first part (foll. 1-263), which goes as far as رح, is dated Pattan, 20th Ramaḍân (year omitted); the second (foll. 264-539, from رخ to عی) 11th Ramaḍân, 976; the third (foll. 540-867), Ṣafar, 978. The work concludes with a خاتمة (foll. 867v.-894), on various subjects of the science of tradition, which was finished on 12th Rabî’ I. (probably also A.H. 978). Then comes the preamble to an appendix (ذیل, mentioned by Ḥ. Kh.), which latter is, however, not given.2

Well written in Nasta’lîḳ. In the conclusions of the single parts the author is invariably styled شیخ محمد ابن شیخ طاهر المحدث العلامة الهندی شهرة الکجراتی مطلعا الفتنی مولدا.

Part II. is dated A.H. 1049.

In some places, near both ends, the upper part of the MS. has been destroyed, and restored by another hand.

[Johnson.]

1 Added as a correction (صح).

2 It is also wanting in the MS. of the British Museum.