Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 351]

Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 351 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 179 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 179. 351. Size 111/4 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 364. Thirty-one or thirty-three lines in a page. A biography of Muḥammad, compiled by Shihâb al-dîn Aḥmad ḲASṬALÂNÎ (d. A. H. 923), and entitled المواهب اللدنیة بالمنح المحمدیة. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 245; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, ii. 341; Cat. Mus. Brit. 98. Printed with the commentary of Zarḳânî, at Bûlâḳ, A. H. 1278, in 8 vols. The author’s conclusion is wanting. Written alternately in two small hands, on tinted paper. Coloured lines round the pages. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang, A. H. 1175. [Tippu.]