Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 2341]

Tradition.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2341 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 191 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

191.

2341. Size 8 in. by 6 in.; foll. 46. Fifteen lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-2: A prayer for Muḥammad, supposed to have been communicated by him to Maḥmûd of Ghaznah in a dream.

Begins: این درود معظم محمود غزنوی را در خواب محمد رسول الله آموخته.

II. Foll. 3-44: A Collection of Traditions from the Prophet, entitled لباب الاخبار, by AḤMAD B. ‘ABDALLAH.

It is divided into forty chapters, each of which contains ten traditions. The Isnâds are generally omitted. Each tradition is followed by a Persian translation. This collection was printed at Bombay, A. H. 1280. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 164, xliv.

Beginning: الحمدلله رب العالمین، قیّوم السموات و الارضین. The first chapter is inscribed: الباب الاول فی فضیلة العلم و العلماء. A list of all the chapters is inserted after the preface.

Dated 1 Muḥarram, 1157.

III. Foll. 44v.-46: Various pious stories in Persian, concluding with blessings on Muḥammad.

Well written.

Seal of Tippu on the first page.

[Coll. Fort William, 1825.]