Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 99] غایة التوضیح للجامع الصحیح

Tradition.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 99 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 129 here with notations and hyperlinks].

129.

B 99. Size 121/4 in. by 9 in.; foll. 375. Thirty-one lines in a page.

A Commentary on the Ṣaḥîḥ, entitled غایة التوضیح للجامع الصحیح, by ‘OTHMÂN b. Ibrâhîm Ṣiddîḳî Ḥanafî, who appears to have lived in the tenth century of the Hijrah.

The author says in his preface that he compiled his work from the commentaries of Karmânî, ‘Asḳalânî, Ḳastalânî, and Zarkashî, and also, in the first portion, from the فیض الباری, a commentary by Saiyid ‘Abd al-awwal [ed. note. apparently Saiyid 'Abd al-Awwal b. 'Ali al-Din b. Hasan Husaini Zaidpuri]. There precedes (foll. 2-6) an introduction in nine sections (فصل), treating in general of the science of tradition, of Bukhârî, of the names and chronology of traditionists, etc. The commentary itself consists of annotations on single passages of the text, the first words of which are only given, introduced by قوله.

Begins:

 الحمدلله الذی شرح صدور المحدثین بالهام السنة النبویة

Written in different hands, about A. H. 1000. The final leaves are mutilated, and the beginning is also injured.

Cat. p. 223, i. 7.

[Bijapur Collection]