Hadith manuscripts
It was written by an early Islamic scholar, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim bin Salam (770-838).
While it has not been carbon dated yet, based on the notes on the margin it is evident that this copy was made before 486 AH (1093 CE) as one of the people that studied it is Abū Bakr Muhammad Bin Zahid al-Ṭūsī who died in the year 486 AH.
[9] This is a 20 folio manuscript of Sahih Bukhari which is located in Qatar National Library.
[10] This is an incomplete Copy of Sunan Tirmidhi which was written in the year 572 AH (1176 CE) in fine bold naskh script.
From Tartusi the scribe mentions an Ijazah leading to the author Abu Dawud al-Sijistani.
A letter of Abu Dawud describing his sunan to the people of Makkah is also present on the folios with the same chain of narration.
Each except the ninth part(which is slightly defective at the end) has autographs of many male and female traditionalists, numbering not less than 300, all in the 7th and 8th century AH who studied from this manuscript.
A note dated 707 AH(1307 CE) says that Abdallah Bin Ahmad Bin Abdallah studied the work jointly with Al-Dhahabi, Bali and others from the present copy under Ibn an Nuhhas in Madrasa Ashrafiyah of Damascus.
A note towards the end tells us that Ahmad az Zaftawi, a decentand of Siraj al Hindi, and a Qadi al-Qudat of Egypt sold this manuscript to Madrasah Muhmadiya in Samarkand and another note states that this copy was compared with a copy of the Musnad that belonged to Shaikh Muhammad Khalil al Makki in 633 AH (1235 CE).
[16] This is a manuscript of Sunan abi dawud which is dated from 1250-1299 CE (648-699 AH) written in Cairo and contains 79 pages.
According to the end of this copy, the work was completed by its author on Monday, 7 Dhu al-Qadah 654 AH (26 November 1256 CE) in Dar al-hadith.
A note at the end of the text gives biographical details on the author, and also mentions a fire that occurred in Medina that year (654 AH).
[18] This is a manuscript of Sahih Bukhari kept at Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Ireland (no.
The manuscript bears an Ijazah dated 707 AH (1307 CE) granted by "Yusuf Bin Abdal Hadi" to some of his students.
[24] This is a Manuscript of Sahih Muslim located in National Library of Israel which was written in the year 748 AH (1347 CE).
It consists of 252 folios (30.5 by 21cm) written in ink, gold and opaque watercolour in naskh script.
The manuscript is in poor condition with loose, worm-eaten, stained and fragile pages.
[28] This Manuscript of Sahih Bukhari is located in Khuda Baksh Library which was completed in Muharram 778 AH (May/June 1376 CE).
[29] This is a Manuscript of the first part of Sahih Bukhari also written in the year 778 AH (1376 CE) in fine naskh script.
[31] It is a fine copy of the sixth volume of Sahih Bukhari written in the year 791 AH (1389 CE).
It is written in medium large script in black ink, with use of red for the word "hadsana" (حَدَّثَنَا).
[35] This is a 105 folio manuscript of Sahih Bukhari written in good naskh script.
On the title page, a waqf nama is written which states that Fakhraddin, a Vizier of Egypt, donated this manuscript for public use in Jumada al-Awwal 817 AH (July/August 1414 CE) to Damascus.
[36] This is a manuscript of Sahih Bukhari copied around 795-796 AH (1392-1393 CE) located in National Library of Israel.
[37] This partial manuscript of Sahih Bukhari was written in 796 AH (1393 CE) using naskh script.
This copy was completed by Talhah on Saturday 14 Dhu al-Qadah 809 AH (22 April 1407 CE).
[39] This is a complete copy of Sahih Muslim which was written in the year 812 AH (1409 CE).
It has a long selling statement dated 19 Jumada al-Awwal 823 AH (1st June 1420 CE).
It is written in medium large naskh script in black ink with occasional use of red on Biscuit paper with laid lines still visible and a few Marginal annotations.
It is written in medium large naskh script in black ink with use of red for headings and keywords.
