Islamic Traditions [136]

Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Islamic B69 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 136 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 136. B 69. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 167. Twenty-eight lines in a page. A copious Commentary on the Shamâ’il, by IBN ḤAJAR HAITHAMÎ (Shihâb al-dîn Aḥmad Makkî, d. A. H. 973). It was composed in Ramaḍân, 949, and entitled اشرف الوسائل الی فهم الشمائل. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 70; Cat. Mus. Brit. 98; Bibl. Sprenger. 111. Of the main text, originally only the passages to be explained are given; but the rest are added, with the mark ص یل, on the margin. Plainly written, by Zain b. ‘Abdallah Muḳaibil, for his own use. Dated 9th Rajab, 1088. Collated with another MS. The first leaves are much injured by insects. Cat. 223, viii.