Science of Traditions [IO Bijapur 86]

Science of Tradition.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 86 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 196 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

SCIENCE OF TRADITION.

196.

B 86. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 65. About twenty lines in a page.

کتاب المغیث من مختلف الحدیث

A treatise on Discrepancies in Traditions, by MAḤMÛD B. ṬÂHIR B. AL-MUẒAFFAR SANJARÎ.

This MS. is imperfect at the beginning and end; it commences now with the following verses, which belong to the preface:

حسنُ الخَلْقِ جمیلٌ خَلْقُهُ (sic) جودُه یسبق جودَ المَطَرِ

عالِمٌ بل عالَمُ فی جسدٍ قُرِنت أَرْآؤُه بالظَفَرِ

لستُ ادری خُلْقُه احسنُ أمْ خَلْقُه ام لفظه کالدُّرَرِ

لیست الشمسُ تُضاهیه سَنًا وَجْهُه أخجلَ نور القَمَرِ

راحةُ الزُوّارِ فی راحته خُلِقتْ للنفع لا للضررِ

The author says subsequently that in the course of his studies he read the مختلف الحدیث of Ḳutabî (i.e. Ibn Ḳutaibah, d. A. H. 276).1 The present treatise is an abridgement of that work, with additions by the author. It tries to solve the discrepancies between single traditions, as well as between traditions and the Koran. The discrepant traditions are introduced, the one by حدیث آخر, the opposite by فان قیل, and the solution by الجواب. The author dedicated his work to المجلس العالی المؤیَّدی النظامی القوامی العضدی الجلالی, for whom he had already written a treatise on Koranic science, فی حقائق التنزیل و بدائع التاویل و مختلف القراءات.

Written in different hands, of about the tenth century. Much is wanting at the end. Single leaves are also missing after foll. 7, 10, and 11. Fol. 3 is much torn.

Wrongly inscribed کتاب عقاید تنزیل. Cf. Cat. 226, xxxiii.

1 See on this work, Ḥ. Kh. v. 463 and i. 198, and Cat. Lugd. iv. 54.