Famous collection of authentic traditions by al-Bukhārī, which belongs to the six
canonical hadith collections.
Information concerning the counting of the folios: Fleischer's counting is mentioned as "old", the revised counting by www.islamic-manuscript.net
as "new", respectively separated by a slash.
f. 1a-2a: Index (incomplete) f. 3a: Preface (incomplete) f. 3b-4a: index of Imām al-Ḥamawī f. 4b-782b/690b: al-Ṣaḥīḥ f. 783b-784b/691b-692b: Three ijāzāt for Ibrāhīm Pāshā from 1082/1671 f. 786b/694b: Laudatory verses for Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar
al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 852/1449; EI2 III/776-778; GAL I/359 II/67-70 S I/611 S II/72-76;
Kaḥḥālah II/20-22; Ziriklī I/178-179) f. 787a-788b/695a-696b: Enclosed print newspaper "Le Mukhbir", dated saturday, 31.
August 1867
باب کیف کان بدؤ الوحی الی رسول الله صلی الله علیه وسلم وقول الله عز وجل انا وحینا
الیک کما اوحینا الی نوح والنبیین من بعده حدثنا الحمیدی حدثنا یحیی بن سعید الانصاری
اخبرنی محمد بن ابرهیم التیمی انه سمع علقمة بن وقاص اللیثی قال سمعت عمر بن الخطاب رضی
الله عنه علی المنبر یقول
End of the text
قال النبی صلی الله علیه وسلم کلمتان حبیبتان الی الرحمن خفیفتان علی اللسان ثقیلتان
فی المیزان سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظیم صدق الله العلی العظیم وصدق رسوله النبی
الکریم ونحن علی ذلک من الشاهدین ولالاء ربنا ونعمه من الحامدین والحمد الله رب العالمین
Alexandria, Almorsi Library (Ziedan) I/nos. 139-140 Alexandria, Municipal Library (Ziedan) V/nos. 118-144 Alexandria, University (Ziedan) nos. 855-870 Beirut, Maktabat al-Jāmiʿah al-Amīrikīyah (Khūrī) no. 200 Berlin (Ahlwardt) nos. 1146-1191 Berlin (Quiring-Zoche I) nos. 60-61 Berlin (Quiring-Zoche III) no. 64 Berlin (Schoeler) no. 29 Berlin (Wagner) no. 25 Cairo, Khizānat al-Taymūrīyah II/145-146 Cairo, Suppl. I/201 Cologne (Wiesmüller) nos. 78-79 Damascus, Dār al-Kutub al-Ẓāhirīyah (Yassein Mohammed al-Sawass) al-Majmūʿah no. 135/1 Dublin, Chester Beatty (Arberry) nos. 3080, 3177 Gotha (Pertsch I) nos. 591-594 Istanbul, Köprülü (Şeşen) nos. 355-362, 363/1, 364/1 Leiden (Voorhoeve) nos. 324-325 Leipzig (Fleischer I) nos. CLXXX, CLXXXII-CLXXXIV Leipzig (Vollers) nos. 298-305 London, British Museum, Suppl. (Rieu) no. 132 London, India Office (Loth) nos. 117-124 Madrid, Escorial (Derenbourg) no. 1443 Milan, Ambrosiana I/no. CCCXXV, II/nos. 72, 106, 174, 179, 184, 210, 603:I, 604, 665,
751, 752 Munich (Aumer I) nos. 107-117 New Haven, Yale University (Nemoy) nos. A-660-666, B-153, 169, 677, 686, 690, 715,
720 Paris (Vajda) 642 Princeton, Garrett Collection (Mach) no. 577 Princeton, New Series (Mach, Ormsby) no. 403 Qom, Kitābkhānah-i ʿumūmī-i Āyat Allāh Marʿashī nos. 1029, 1160, 1608, 1878, 2895,
3558, 5513, 5755, 6263-6265, 7654 Sala, Subaiheyya Library (Muhammad Hajji) nos. 122-131 Al Taif, Library of Abdullah Ibn Al Abbas (Othman Mahmoud Hussein) 50 Vienna (Flügel) nos. 1646-1647
Translations
English: Sahîh al-Bukhârî being traditions and doings of the Propjet Muhammad. Transl. from
the Arabic by Muhammad Asad. Lahore 1938
A manual of Hadith by Maulana Muhammad Ali. Lahore 1944
The Translation of the meanings of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. Arabic and English by Muhammad
Mushsin Khan. Medina 1981
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī being the tradition of saying and doings of the prophet Muhammad
as narrated by his companions. Rendered to English by Muhammad Materji. New Delhi
1997
French: Les traditions islamiques de el-Bokhâri. Trad. de lʾArabe avec notes et index par.
O. Houdas. Paris 1903-1914
Le livre des testaments du Çaḥîḥ dʾel-Bokh âri. Trad. avec éclaircissement et commentaire
par Frédéric Peltier. Alger 1909
Le livre des ventes suivi du livre de la vente à theme seleem et du Livre du retrait.
Trad. avec éclaircissement et commentaire par Frédéric Peltier. Alger 1910
Le livre des successions du Çahîh dʾel-Bokhâry. Traduction avec éclaircissement et
commentaires par G.-H. Bousquet. Paris 1933
Lʾauthentique tradition musulmane. Choise de hʾadhîs de la Bokhâri. Traduction, introduction
et notes par G.-H. Bousquet. Paris 1964
Sahîh al-Boukhârî. Arabe-français. Traduction et. commentaire de Mokhtar Charkoun.
Paris 2005
Kenouz lʾimam al-Boukhari. Traduction de 500 hadiths par Abdel Hafid. Beyrouth 2007
German: Auszüge aus dem Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Buḫāryy. Aus dem Arab. übertr. und komm. von Abū-r-Riḍāʾ
Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Rassoul. s.l. 1989
Nachrichten von Taten und Aussprüchen des Propheten Muhammad. Ausgew., übers. und
hrsg. von Dieter Ferchl. Stuttgart 1991
Editions/Literature
printed many times, e.g.: Le recueil des traditions Mahométanes par Abou Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ismaîl el Bokhâri.
Publiè par Rudolf Krehl. Leyde 1862-1908 Bangalore 1296-1298/1878-1881 Beirut 1404-1405/1984 Bombay 1280-1288/1863-1872 Būlāq 1279/1862-1863 Cairo 1385-1386/1966, 1414-1419/1994-1998, 1420-1421/2000 Istanbul 1312/1894-1895 Lahore 1304/1886-1887, 1420-1421/2000 Mirtha 1289-1290/1873 Meerut 1284/1867-1868 Riyadh 1418-1419/1998
Red-brown leather binding; front and back cover with different ornaments: The front cover is of European origin: Baroque inspired, oval central ornament of knotted interlace and stylized leaf motif,
lobed corner pieces filled with an interlace of arabesque pattern, frame border as
a band of golden embossed stamps with alternating palmette and Wiegenfuß motifs; doublure
is of paper The back cover is of Oriental origin: Mandorla as central ornament with lobed perimeter, two fleurons as pendants with an
infill of floral scrolls and Chinese cloudbands on gold; the lobed corner pieces have
the same infill as the mandorla and the pendants; the frameborder consists of a band
of golden embossed S-stamps; doublure of brown leather, in the center a square designed
of interlace decoration and turned 90 degree, two interlace pendants above and below,
all painted with gold on the leather
good, the bottom right corner of the back cover is slightly damaged
good; f. 783b-784b (old) / 691b-692b (new): the three ijāzāt from the end of Jumāda II 1082/1671
that have been added at a later stage are written on light oriental paper
↳ Watermarks
f. I: European paper two crossed hammers
Number of folios
690 f.: al-Ṣaḥīḥ, incl. index and preface at the beginning; Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer follows
an irregular counting of 782 folios. See catalogue entry in the English translation
and paraphrase of H.L. Fleischer's catalogue by Boris Liebrenz under "Historical catalogues",
nr. CLXXX, on the website www.islamic-manuscripts.net. The folio given by Fleischer
is mentioned in this catalogue entry as "old", the updated counting as "new".
f. 783b-784b (old) / 691b-692b (new): Three ijāzāt from 1082/1671, added at a later stage to the manuscript
f. 787a-788b (old) / 695b-696b (new): Enclosed newspaper "Le Mukhbir", dated 31.8.1867
Formal regular script, lemmata in red (two different shades) and/or larger font size;
golden and blue ink for lemmata only until f. 49b.
Illumination
Index of Imām al-Ḥamawī (f. 3b-4a) has gold ink, a golden frame and golden and blue
ornamental elements; illuminated headpiece with golden (and red) decorative elements
on blue ground with the Basmala before the beginning of the Ṣaḥīḥ-text (f. 4b); frame
around the text as well as golden and blue ink only until f. 49b, after this the text
in black ink is without frame and has only lemmata in red.
History of the object
Entstehung
Scribe
↳ other name form(s)
f. 782b (old) / 690b (new):
Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Shīrāzī al-Shāfiʿī Najm al-Ḥāfiẓ
Provenienz
Provenienz
1710?
Leipzig
Buyer Purchaser: Ratsbibliothek
Seller: from the estate of August Pfeiffer (1640-1698)
"Turkish booty", Vienna 1683 (see doublure of back cover)
Provenience information
Other: Numerous marginal commentaries of Ḥadīth scholars, Ijāzāt, Samāʿāt and a Silsila
of [Shams al-Dīn] Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī (name as it appears
in the manuscript, d. 833/1429; EI2 III/753; GAL II/201-203 S II/274-278; Kaḥḥālah
XI/291-292; Zirklī VII/45-46);
(the folio numbers do follow the counting of H.L. Fleischer): f. 164b, f. 332b, f. 513b, f. 782b (f. 690b according to the new counting of islamic-manuscripts); on the Ijāzāt and the marginal commentaries see the historical catalogue of Heinrich
Leberecht Fleischer under "Historical catalogues", chapter on "Codices de traditione
prophetica", Nr. CLXXX, pp. 451-464; doublure of the back cover: Place and date of the Turkish booty as well as the owner's stamp of August Pfeiffer
Ownership statements
Doublure of the back cover: August Pfeiffer (1640-1698)
