Ibn Khātūn, the translator, was a student of Shaykh Bahāʾī and one of the scholars of his time. He has been gaining knowledge in Shaykh Bahāʾī's lessons for years. When he arrived at the court of Sultan Quṭb Shāhī (died 1035 AH/1616), of the Quṭb Shāhī dynasty of India, he was commissioned to translate a book from Arabic to Persian, as were other scholars of his time. He therefore selected Shaykh Bahāʾī's Arbaʿīn for translation, a book containing 40 hadiths, and called it Tarjumah-'i Quṭb-i Shāhī upon completion. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Title

Ibn Khātūn, the translator, was a student of Shaykh Bahāʾī and one of the scholars of his time. He has been gaining knowledge in Shaykh Bahāʾī's lessons for years. When he arrived at the court of Sultan Quṭb Shāhī (died 1035 AH/1616), of the Quṭb Shāhī dynasty of India, he was commissioned to translate a book from Arabic to Persian, as were other scholars of his time. He therefore selected Shaykh Bahāʾī's Arbaʿīn for translation, a book containing 40 hadiths, and called it Tarjumah-'i Quṭb-i Shāhī upon completion. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 189

Place of origin

Unknown place of origin

Date

1664

Language

Persian

Contents

Support

Western paper (watermark), natural buff, regular thickness, one size.

Physical extent

222 ff.

Hands

Graceful Nastaʿalīq, one hand, regular Damāvandī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn دماوندی، محمد حسین

Decoration

Rubricated titles; rubricated line above Quranic verses and hadiths.

Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Subject

Hadith