Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 2340] الأربعون النبوية

• Tradition.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2340 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 192 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

192.

2340. Size 8^3/4 in. by 5^1/4 in.; foll. 8. Thirteen lines in a page.

Forty Sayings of the Prophet, [الأربعون النبوية] with a paraphrase in Persian verse, preceded by a preface also in Persian. Cf. [Charles] Stewart’s Catal. 158.

The preface begins:

صحیح ترین حدیثی که راویان مجالس دین الخ

The first tradition is:

لایؤمن احدکم حتی یحبّ لاخیه ما یحبّ لنفسه

Conclusion:

تمت ترجمة الاربعین بتوفیق من هو خیر ناصر و معین الخ

Neatly written in Nasta’liḳ, by Muḥammad Mahdî b. Ḥâjjî ‘Abd al-hâdî. Ornamented.

[Coll. Fort William.]