Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 2340] الأربعون النبوية

Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2340 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 192 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 192. 2340. Size 83/4 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 8. Thirteen lines in a page. Forty Sayings of the Prophet, [الأربعون النبوية] with a paraphrase in Persian verse, preceded by a preface also in Persian. Cf. [Charles] Stewart’s Catal. 158. The preface begins: صحیح ترین حدیثی که راویان مجالس دین الخ The first tradition is: لایؤمن احدکم حتی یحبّ لاخیه ما یحبّ لنفسه Conclusion: تمت ترجمة الاربعین بتوفیق من هو خیر ناصر و معین الخ Neatly written in Nasta’liḳ, by Muḥammad Mahdî b. Ḥâjjî ‘Abd al-hâdî. Ornamented. [Coll. Fort William.]