Delhi Persian 1556* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Prophetic traditions, 2 items (a-b)
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Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Delhi Persian 1556* (a), ff. 1v-379v.
Substantial fragment from a Persian translation by an unnamed translator of the collection of traditions of the Prophet Muḥammad, the Jāmiʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ of Abū ʿĪsá Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá al-Tirmiz̲ī (d. 279/892).
This copy ends abruptly without formal conclusion.
Not dated at end.
Delhi Persian 1556* (b), ff. 380v-427r.
Untitled treatise on death and burial rituals endorsed in the colophon as the Risālah-'i farāʾiz̤ by an unnamed author.
Partially dated colophon (f. 427r): completed at Madrassah-'i Shāhjahānī, located to the rear of the Jāmiʿ Masjid (Shāhjahānābād, Delhi), Friday morning, 13 Muḥarram. Datable to the latter half of the eighteenth century.
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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