Wadh.Minasian 274 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection

Summary of Contents: This is an account containing 40 hadiths on ethical and worship matters cited from Shiite Imams that Shaykh Bahāʾī completed on 13 Ṣafar 995 in Iṣfahān. The work is devided into 40 sections under 40 hadiths. The sections/hadiths include: "Reward for memorizing Arbaʿūn ḥadīs̱ā" (first hadith), "Attributes of the Friends of Allāh" (second hadith), "Importance of the priority times for prayers" (third hadith), ... "Ablution of Amīr al-Muʾminīn" (fifth hadith), ... "Importance of Ḥajj" (tenth hadith), ... "Disparage of the worship of idolatry and love in the world" (twentieth hadith), ... "An account of inhibitions cited from the Prophet of God" (thirtieth hadith), ... "Fate of the believers' spirits after death" (fortieth hadith). The work has been taken seriously as of its creation time, so as there have since been many commentaries, annotations, and translations created for it.

Language(s): Arabic

Hadith

Author: ʿĀmilī, Bahāʿ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,‏ ‎1547-1621‏ Ḥāris̱ī ʿĀmilī Bahāʿī, Shaykh Bahāʿ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, 953-1031 AH/1546-1622‏ عاملی، بهاءالدین محمد بن حسین، ۱۵۴۷-۱۶۲۱ حارثی عاملی بهایی، شیخ بهاءالدین محمد بن حسین بن عبدالصمد (۹۵۳-۱۰۳۱ ۱۵۴۶-۱۶۲۲)‏

Title: al-Arbaʿūn ḥadīs̱ā

Title: الاربعون حدیثا

Title: Arbaʿīn

Title: اربعین

Title: Sharḥ-i Arbaʿīn

Title: شرح اربعین

Title: al-Arbaʿīnah

Title: الاربعینة

Incipit: ان احسن حدیث تجلی اللسان بجواهر حقایقه و خیر خبر تجلی الانسان فی زواهر حدایقه… و بعد فان الفقیر الی الله الغنی بهاءالدین محمد العاملی… یقول ان اعظم المطالب و المفاخر بعد ایمان بالله و الیوم الاخر هو ما یتوصل به الی السعاده الابدیه… و صرف فیه لیله و نهاره و هذه اربعون حدیثا من طرق اهل بیت…

Explicit: … اتفق الفراغ من شقه شقه ضحوه یوم الاثنین ثالث العشر من ثانی شهور السنه الخامسه من العشر العاشر من المائه العاشره من الهجره سید المرسلین… علی ید مولفه الفقیر الی الله الغنی محمد المشتهر ببهاءالدین العاملی… بمحروسه اصفهان… تم بخیر.

Colophon: … تمّ بالخیر بید العبد الفقیر الی الله الغنی ابن جانباز محمد شریف بنه‌دار

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 51

Similar copies in other libraries:

NLI, 10/338-339
GIP, 17
GIE, 1/13, 2/12
MAJ, 1/10, 13/55, 14/201, 26/131-200-374

Similar manuscripts listed in other catalogues:

ALZ, 1/425-426
TAB, 11/85-87
ARP, 36
DEN, 609

Printed editions:

Qum, 1373 Shamsī AH

On the Web:

Digitized version of another copy of this work.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Oriental paper, natural buff, varying thickness (thin, regular and thick), one size, glossy. Paper corrosion due to infestation. Back bone mending of first folios.

Extent: 1+156+1 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 19 × 12 cm.

Dimensions (written): 12.5 × 8 cm.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Cursive calligraphic Naskh, fairly large hand, two hands. Marginalia in Nastaʿalīq; annotated. Bunah'dār, Muḥammad Sharīf بنه‌دار، محمد شریف

Additions: End paper 1: ʿAlá ṣirāṭ ḥaqq-i ʿabduhū Muḥammad 19 [...] End paper 1: علی صراط حق عبده محمد ۱۹ […] A note on the end paper 1 wiped out. Stamp on end paper 1, folio 1b, 156a: Lā ilāh illa Allāh. al-Malik al-ḥaq al-mubīn. Muḥammad ibn Qāsim 1161. لا اله الا الله. الملک الحق المبین. محمد ابن قاسم ۱۱۶۱.

Binding

Black leather, 13 × 20 cm, front + back cover, leather and pasteboard.

Simple tooling (medallion with bird image + 2 finials); ruled.

History

Origin: 11th century AH; 17th century CE ; Unknown place of origin

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Record Sources

This record was created by Dr Mohammad Emami based on the information published in the Persian catalogue by Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016).

Availability

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Key to bibliographical abbreviations of alternative versions:

Libraries:

AQR: Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi; FAW: Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection); GIE: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Manuscripts; GIP: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Photographed and Microfilmed Manuscripts; GUL: Library of Ayatollah Gulpayigani; MAJ: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly; MAL: Malek National Museum and Library; MNL: Mar'ashi Najafi Library; NLI: National Library of Iran; SEP: Sepahsalar (Shahid Motahari) Mosque and School of Tehran; TCL: Tabriz Central Public Library; UTL: Central Library of University of Tehran;

Catalogues:

ALZ: الذریعه; ARP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی عربی; COM: فهرست مشترک نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; DEN: فهرستواره دست‌نوشته‌های ایران (دنا); FAM: فهرست نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; FAP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی فارسی; FIH: فهرستواره کتاب‌های فارسی; KAS: کشف الظنون عن اسامی الکتب و الفنون; RAY: ریحانة الادب فی تراجمِ المعروفین بالکنیة او اللّقب; TAB: طبقات اعلام الشیعه.

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World