• Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 103A] کتاب المصابیح

Tradition.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 103A in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 149 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

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B 103 A. Size 91/2 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 296. Nineteen lines in a page.

کتاب مصابیح الدجی من صحیح حدیث المصطفی تالیف الامام الاجل الاوحد المحقق ناصر الحدیث محیی السنة افضل المتاخرین ابی محمد الحسین بن مسعود البغوی الفراء قدس الله روحه الخ

The celebrated Collection of Traditions of al-Ḥusain b. Mas’ûd BAGHAWÎ (d. A. H. 510 or 516), who compiled it from the seven canonical collections of Bukhârî, Muslim, (Abu Dâ’ûd) Sajastânî, Nasâ’î, Tirmidhî, (Ibn Mâjah) Ḳazwînî, and Dârimî. Cf.  Ḥ. Kh. v. 564; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 85 [=p. 85, entry no. 1649]; Cat. Lugd. iv. 74 [=Catalogus codicum orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae.], etc.

Written in a good hand, the diacritical points often omitted; of about the eighth century. The transcriber names himself al-Ḥasan b. ‘Abdallah b. Muḥammad b. Abu’l-Ḳâsim Gharâbîlî. Much worn. The earlier portion is covered with marginal and interlinear notes. The vacant leaves at the end are filled up with various extracts and notices. On the last fol. Begins a table of contents.

Signature of Muḥammad ‘Âdil Shâh. Frequent impressions of a seal which offers no name, on the title-page. Cf. Catal. 223, iii. I. [ed note: = Ḥaqīm Ḥamid al-Dīn's Urdu catalogue prepared at the behest of H. B. Frere] 

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