Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 2390]

Tradition.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2390 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 131 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

131.

2390. Size 9 in. by 5 in.; fol. 313. Fifteen lines in a page.

الفیض النبوی فی اصول الحدیث و فهاریس البخاری و شرح الکتابین من اول صحیحه الایمان و العلم جامعه و مالکه عمر بن محمد عارف عبدالغفور جماد تاحخان (sic?) النهروالی مولدا و المدنی موطنا.

An introduction to the Ṣaḥîḥ, with a commentary on the beginning of that work, compiled by ‘OMAR B. MUḤAMMAD ‘ÂRIF Nahrwâlî الفتنی,1 for the benefit of his ignorant countrymen.

The preface begins: الحمدلله الذی حفظ کلام نبیّه عن ادلاس اهل الضلال و الاضلال.

The work begins with a general introduction, (fol. 8) مقدّمة فی بیان اصول الحدیث و اصطلاحها, and four special chapters. I. (fol. 14) فی اقسام الحدیث; II. (fol. 34) فی الجرح و التعدیل; III. (fol. 40) فی کیفیة سماع الحدیث; IV. (fol. 50) فی اسماء الرجال. Then follow various discussions, (fol. 52) مسائل شتّی لها تعلق بما نحن فیه, concluded by notes on Bukhârî and his work, (fol. 74) خاتمة فیما یتعلق بالبخاری; (fol. 99) فیما یتعلق بصحیحه .

Added, (fol. 109) a survey of all the books and chapters of the Ṣaḥîḥ with regard to their number; (fol. 112) another pointing out the principles of their arrangement, taken from Balḳainî’s commentary; 2 (fol. 121) another telling the traditions, and especially the تعالیق and the متابعات 1 contained in each chapter; and (fol. 127) an alphabetical list of the Companions of the Prophet on whose authority traditions are related in the Ṣaḥîḥ.

The commentary (foll. 132-313) is very copious. It does not, however, go as far as is stated in the inscription, but terminates abruptly in the very beginning of the کتاب الایمان. A sham conclusion has been added by a different hand.

Well written; of the twelfth century. Ornamented in colours. The copy was made by a calligraph for the use of the author, who revised it afterwards, and wrote the above title. Two leaves (foll. 134 and 135) were also inserted by him as a supplement (تتمّة).

A list of contents on foll. 1-3.

[Sir Charles Wilkins.]

1 Thus the author names himself in his preface. His native place in Nahrwâllah, or Pattan, in Gujarât.

2 See Ḥ. Kh. ii. 531.