Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 162] Collection of Apophthegms of 'Alī

• Tradition.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2263 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 162 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

162.

2263. Size 8^3/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 160. Twenty-one lines in a page.

A Collection of Apophthegms of ‘ALÎ, without the Isnâds, arranged alphabetically. It is entitled غرر الحکم و درر الکلم. The author is ‘ABD AL-WÂḤID b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-wâḥid ÂMIDÎ Tamîmî, who flourished, according to Ḥ. Kh. ii. 646 sq., at the beginning of the sixth century. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 318; Cat. Mus. Brit. 331 sq.; and Cat. Lugd. i. 193.

Written in a good Persian hand, of about the tenth century. The end is missing. Thin paper. Worm-eaten.

Seal of Nuṣrat Jang.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]