Science of Traditions [IO Bijapur 104]

Science of Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 104 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 198 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 198. B 104. Size 71/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 147. Twenty-one lines in a page. الجزء الاول من کتاب الایضاح بتکملة التنکیت علی ابن الصلاح جمع شیخنا العلامة .. شهاب الدین ابن حجر تغمده الله برحمته. IBN ḤAJAR ‘ASḲALÂNÎ’s (abu’l-faḍl Aḥmad b. ‘Alî, a. A. H. 852) Glosses on the علوم الحدیث of Ibn al- Ṣalâḥ (Abu ‘Amr ‘Othmân Shahrazûrî, d. A. H. 643), and on the annotations on that work by ‘Irâḳî. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 250. These glosses begin with the preface (خطبة) of Ibn al- Ṣalâḥ. The last heading which occurs is (fol. 142): القسم الثانی و العشرون معرفة المقلوب, and from a note at the end (هذا آخر ما وجد بخط شیخ الاسلام رضه) it would appear that the work was never continued beyond this first volume. Written in a good small hand, probably transcribed from the author’s own copy. The passages commented are preceded by قوله, with صor ع written over it, in order to distinguish the original text (الاصل) and the annotations of ‘Irâḳî (الفرع). Several blanks, intended in the author’s copy for the full text of some quotations, which were never inserted, appear likewise in the present MS. Bîj. Libr., A. H. 1046. Seals of Muḥammad ‘Âdil Shâh, and of two servants of ‘Âlamgîr (Aurangzîb), namely ‘Inâyat Khân and Ḳâbil Khân. Cat. 224, i.