MUHAMMAD IBN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D. AH 256/870 AD): AL-JAMI' AL-SAHIH (PARTS 2-7)

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AN EARLY COPY OF AL-BUKHARI MADE IN MECCA AND FORMERLY IN THE POSSESSION OF THE RASULID SULTAN OF YEMEN, ISMA'IL IBN AL-'ABBAS

MUHAMMAD IBN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D. AH 256/870 AD): AL-JAMI' AL-SAHIH (PARTS 2-7)

MECCA, AH RAMADAN 578/29 DECEMBER 1182-27 JANUARY 1183 AD

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MUHAMMAD IBN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D. AH 256/870 AD): AL-JAMI' AL-SAHIH (PARTS 2-7)
Mecca, AH Ramadan 578/29 December 1182-27 January 1183 AD
Hadith, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 225ff. with 32ll. of black maghribi, titles in large script occasionally highlighted with red, opening flyleaf with title of work and name of author, f. 224v. with colophon recording date of completion of manuscript by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Samad ... in Mecca in Ramadan 578, f. 163b and 224b with sama' record with the name of the Rasulid Sultan Isma'il ibn al-'Abbas, marginal annotations, generally good condition, slight worm and water damage, old repairs, loose in binding, later tan morocco binding with tooled medallion and spandrels
Folio 10 x 6¾in. (25.4 x 17cm.)

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This very early copy of the work was copied in Mecca.
The two sama' notes on f.163b and f.224b record that it was read to the Rasulid Sultan of Yemen Al-Malik al-Ashraf Isma'il I ibn al-'Abbas (778/1377-803/1400).

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