Dictionaries [IO Islamic 1498] النهاية فى غريب الحديث

Dictionaries.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1498 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 999 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

999.

1498. Size 133/4 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 196. Thirty- three lines in a page.

The latter portion of IBN AL-ATHÎR JAZARÎ’S (Majd al-dîn Abu’l-sa’âdât Mubârak b. Abu’l-karam , d. A.H. 606) Dictionary to the Traditions, entitled النهاية فى غريب الحديث . See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 403, and also, for an extract from it, ib. iv. 322 sqq.; Cat. Mus. Brit. 641, 755; Cat. Bodl. i. 229; Stewart, p. 133; Ibn Khallikân, ed. Wûstenfeld, no. ٥٦٢ . Printed at Tehrân, A.H. 1269. 1

This work is partly founded upon the dictionary of Harawî above mentioned (no. 992).

This part begins:

باب الشين مع الطاء شطأ فى حديث انس فى قوله تعالى فأخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ قال نباته و فروخه الخ.

Well written, but not quite finished. The last paragraph is ينع , in which the MS. ends abruptly .

Worm-eaten. Foll. 4 and 5, and also 6 and 7, should be transposed.

Seals of Faiḍ ‘Alî ‘Khân (A.H. 1174) and Muḥammad Khiḍr Khân (A.H. 1191).

[Tippu.]

1 Cf. Bible. Sprenger. 971.