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Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 065/1

Former shelfmark

Total pages

4 fols

Folio measures

197x130 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

fol. 93v

Attributed Title

Ḥadīṯ arba`īn

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1859

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

تمت [ت] م م م م م ... م قد حرره محمد الحاج عمر انفدى ٤ ش سنه ١٢٧٥ في سنه خمس و سبعين وماتين والف

Colophon position

Fol. 24v

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Dévényi, Kinga, Munif Abdul-Fattah, and Katalin Fiedler, eds. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Islamic Manauscripts and Books 9. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2016

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A 19th-century, dated copy of a short ḥadīt work. It is the first manuscript in a collection of three ḥadīt texts and was copied by the owner of the volume, Muḥammad [ibn] al-Ḥāǧǧ ʿUmar Efendi on 4 Šaʿbān 1275 [9 March 1859]. There seems to be some controversy surrounding the authorship of this work. Several sources (e.g. GAL II, 69; GAL S II, 74) and some surviving manuscripts attribute it to Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī (773–852/1372–1449). This attribution, however, has recently been questioned partly because this title is missing from the catalogue of Ibn Ḥaǧar’s works compiled by his student, al-Ṣaḫāwī (d. 902/1497), and partly because of the style of the composition. The present manuscript, together with some sources (among them Ḥāǧǧī Ḫalīfa, Kašf al-ẓunūn II, 1848), states that the author was Zayn al-Quḍāt Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥiǧǧī (or al-Ḥaǧrī, or al-Ḥuǧurī). The variants of his name might have led to the incorrect attribution of this work to Ibn Ḥaǧar. Apart from this work, little is known about the true author, Zayn al-Quḍāt al-Ḥiǧǧī. Fols. 1r–24v; 21 lines/page; p. d. 197×130mm, w. s. 155×85mm; in the margin, indication of chapters in Arabic in black and red ink; quarter leather binding with marbled paper covers; paper doublure; in good condition; paper: without watermarks; script: nasḫī; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; headings in red ink; rule-borders on fols. 1v–2r in red ink and in black lead pencil, on fols. 2v–24r in black lead pencil, on fol. 24v in red ink; Oriental foliation; on fol. 1r a list of the constituent works. The manuscript was in the ownership of al-Sayyid Muḥammad Saʿīd (stamp on fol. 1r), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥāǧǧ ʿUmar Efendi (inscription dated 1275/1859 on the first flyleaf and fol. 1r and 4 Šaʿbān 1275 [9 March 1859] on fol. 1r). It was purchased by the Library from Rafael Danglmajer in 1950.

Entry author

Marina Santana