Matn Mashāriq al-anwār al-nabawīyah. - Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1181-1252. ([, 1662)
Collection of traditions from Bukhārī and Muslim, with traditions from the Kitāb al-Shihāb by al-Quḍāʻī (d. 454/1062) and from the Kitāb al-Najm by al-Uqlīshī (d. 550/1155) (GAL).
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric on fol. 3b.
Physical description: 32 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq(?) in black ink with use of red for the abbreviations of the texts quoted. The text is framed within a single red line. European paper with watermark. Annotations on the margins and on pieces of paper between the original leaves (see between fol. 9 and 10). Fol. 53a-55b: Blank. Narrative table of contents on fol. 3a. Short saying concerning the prophet Muḥammad from Abū Hurayrah on fol. 1a and from Ibn ʻAbbās on fol. 2b and 3a.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī ḥadīth 62". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥ 424".
Origin: Copy completed on 20 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1073 [Nov. 2, 1662] by al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (colophon fol. 52b and statement with impression of the seal of the copyist on fol. 2a).
Two ownership statements on fol. 2a, one in the name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā al-Ḥusaynī ... , with seal ; the other, partly erased, in the name of Muḥammad ʻĀrif ; seal with the inscription "Muḥammad ʻĀrif" on fol. 3a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Keywords: Hadith -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, -- 810-870.; Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, -- approximately 821-875.; Quḍāʻī, Muḥammad ibn Salāmah, -- -1062.; Ibn al-Uqlīshī, Aḥmad ibn Maʻadd, -- -1155 or 1156.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 17th century