1855.] Literary Intelligence. 4fi 



know the date of the author, but he is older than the Bokhary, and 

 his accounts are of importance, because he gives for every fact his 

 sanad like Waqidy, whereas the asnad for the details of the Cam- 

 paigns are generally omitted by Ibn Ishaq and even by Ibn Sa'd. 

 Another work of some value on traditions is the SlalxJl a^f^i f 

 Abu-1-Qasim 'abd Allah b. MoM b. 'abd al'azyz who lectured on 

 the book in 315. I have unfortunately only the tenth part of it, 

 but the copy was written in 407. In the commencement of the 

 MS. (as is generally the case in ancient books on traditions) is the 

 sanad of the copyist — Abu-1-Makarim Mo7*d b. al-iZbsayn b. 'abd 

 al'azyz Ibn Wahban — up to the author, viz. 



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i^joUfij (jUj <3uu« Jj)j\ ^5«^U^ ^x> j^joLULU $jX^J\ 6aj j^ixj\ ^cl^ ^ 

 <xjJU ijjS yy^\ &xp ^ &+sz* w j <xJJ| jap ***i&J|^j| iJ^Lf Jli» ajUjJGj j 



tJ| alve ^J <i+=z* l3y*A.| AjUjJj j XyLc ^jv-vL &Lw 



It appears that after the death of the copyist the book fell suc- 

 cessively into the hand of other persons, and they severally wrote 

 their asnad in it up to the author and the date when he read it 

 before their Shaykh. In so far the MS. itself is not without inter- 

 est. I must not fatigue you with too long details on my hobby, 

 particularly as I have an intention to write a separate article on the 



subject for the Zeitsclirift. 



On geography I have a copy of the *J^3/| dSy^o ^ *W&1/| ^-^ 

 by Shams aldyn Abu 'abd Allah Mohammad b. A/miad Shamy 

 Maqdisy iZanafy, who composed the work in 375. Tou will pro- 

 bably find a notice of the author in "Wustenfeld's Geographen and in 

 Eeinaud's translation of Abu-1-Eida, but perhaps not of the work, 

 for if I am not mistaken, my copy is unique. Unfortunately the pro- 

 prietor was aware of its value, and I had to give a tremendous price 

 for it. The author assures us, that he has visited most Mohammad- 

 an countries, and spent upwards of ten thousand dirhams in tra- 

 velling. Regarding places which he could not personally visit 

 he did his best to obtain oral information. He also examined as 

 many libraries as he could, and made extracts. With these claims 



