A part of the collection of authentic traditions by al-Bukhārī, which belongs to the
six canonical hadith collections. The MS contains the faḍā'il al-Qur'ān up to the
kitāb al-ṭibb. According to the titlepages this manuscript fragment of al-Bukhārī's collection contains
parts 36-39, whereas on f. 176a it is noted that part 40 has come to its close. doublure of the front cover: sheet of paper on which are listed by a young hand the chapters of this MS togheter
with the corresponding folio numbers f. 176b: Arabic poem
Alexandria, Almorsi Library (Ziedan) I/nos. 139-140 Alexandria, Municipal Library (Ziedan) V/nos. 118-144 Alexandria, University (Ziedab) 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/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 Ṣal-Bukhāryy. 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
vielfach gedruckt, z. B.: 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 Istanbul 1312/1894-1895 Kairo 1385-1386/1966, 1414-1419/1994-1998, 1420-1421/2000 Lahore 1304/1886-1887, 1420-1421/2000 Mirtha 1289-1290/1873 Meerut 1284/1867-1868 Riad 1418-1419/1998
Dark brown Oriental leather binding with fore-edge flap and envelope flap; ornamentation
covering the whole surface, in the centre of the surface of the covers three crosses
arranged in a circle and overlapping each other so that they form in the middle an
outer and inner twelve-pointed star, the part areas are filled with rosette stamps
and gold dots respectively; frame borders: band of heart shaped leaves with an infill
of leaves, two diagonal bands of cross stamps, band of lines running towards each
other in obtuse angles; the two flaps display a section of the ornamentation of the
covers; doublures made of leather
f. 2a: a three part illuminated title vignette frame-ruled in blue-gold: within the middle
square the authorʾs name written in gold ink surrounded by cloud bands on hatched
ground, above and underneath the square a rectangular panel containing the title and
blessing formulas respectively written in silver ink surrounded by gold cloud bands
on gold ground
