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The genealogy of the children and companions of Shiʿī Imams (PBUT) is listed in this work. The attribution of the work to Abī Mukhannaf is questioned and argued. At the preface to the book, it is quoted from Abī Mukhannaf that "it is Baḥr al-Ansāb for Imams and their children". He says the book was written by Imām Jaʿfar Ṣādiq PBUH, with some text written by Imām Ḥasan ʿAskarī PBUH. It was kept in Al-Aqsa Mosque for some time before it was brought to Persia from Al-Aqsa Mosque by Sayid Abū Ṭāhir ibn jaʿfar ibn ʿUmrān ibn Mūsá ibn Imām Muḥammad Taqī PBUH in the year three hundred and fifty [AH]. It was then translated into Persian by Sayid Murtiz̤á Aʿlam al-hudá later. — Multiple dates; Iṣfahan

Wadh.Minasian 285

Wadham College, University of Oxford

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

The genealogy of the children and companions of Shiʿī Imams (PBUT) is listed in this work. The attribution of the work to Abī Mukhannaf is questioned and argued. At the preface to the book, it is quoted from Abī Mukhannaf that "it is Baḥr al-Ansāb for Imams and their children". He says the book was written by Imām Jaʿfar Ṣādiq PBUH, with some text written by Imām Ḥasan ʿAskarī PBUH. It was kept in Al-Aqsa Mosque for some time before it was brought to Persia from Al-Aqsa Mosque by Sayid Abū Ṭāhir ibn jaʿfar ibn ʿUmrān ibn Mūsá ibn Imām Muḥammad Taqī PBUH in the year three hundred and fifty [AH]. It was then translated into Persian by Sayid Murtiz̤á Aʿlam al-hudá later. — Multiple dates; Iṣfahan

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 285

Place of origin

Iṣfahan

Date

1858

Language

Persian

Contents

Author: H̱azāʿī, Lūṭ ibn Yaḥyá, -773‏ Azdī Khazāʿī, Abū Mukhannaf Lūṭ ibn Yaḥyá, -773 ازدی خزاعی، ابو مخنف لوط بن یحیی، -۱۵۷ ق Abū Mukhannaf ابو مخنف Title: Baḥr al-Ansāb Title: بحر الانساب

Form

codex

Support

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

Physical extent

39 ff.

Hands

Shikastah Nastʿalīq, regular, one hand; annotated; titles unwritten. Sāmanī, ʿAlī ibn Suhrāb سامانی، علی ابن سهراب Copy ordered by Akhūnd Mullā Muḥammad Jaʿfar.

Acquisition

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

Subject

Genealogy

Imams (Shiites)

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  • Mohammad Emami
  • Abū Mikhnaf Lūṭ ibn Yaḥyā al-Azdī, d. ca. 774

  • Minasian, Caro Owen

  • Ali Mir-Ansari

  • Sharīf al-Murtaḍá, ʻAlam al-Hudá ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, 966-1044 or 5

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