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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI AL-JU'FI (D. AH 256/870-71 AD): AL-JAMI' AL-SAHIH

MAMLUK SYRIA OR PALESTINE, LATE 14TH/EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI AL-JU'FI (D. AH 256/870-71 AD): AL-JAMI' AL-SAHIH
MAMLUK SYRIA OR PALESTINE, LATE 14TH/EARLY 15TH CENTURY
Comprising volumes V and VI of the great canonical collection of traditions, Arabic manuscript on white and pink paper, 199ff. each with 21ll. of strong black naskh, important words and headings picked out in larger naskh, occasional marginal notes in red or black, opening folio with the title written in thuluth on a red hatched ground, in later worn red morocco with central stamped medallion, paper covered doublures
Folio 10 3/8 x 7 3/8in. (26.5 x 18.8cm.)

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The author of this text was born in Bukhara in AH 195/810 AD. After making the pilgrimage to Mecca travelled extensively in search of Traditions of the Prophet. He was able to compile 7,397 out of 600,000 traditions in his monumental work, al-Jami al-Sahih. Other copies of the work are published in U. Lyons, Chester Beatty Library: A Handlist of the Arabic manuscript, Dublin, 1966, volume VIII, Indexes, p.15; A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1934, pp.205-09 and P. Stocks and C. Baker, Subject-Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London, 2001, pp.30-31, B.

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