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general use—so widely used, in fact, as to constitute a "textus receptus"—is the recension of Muḥammad al—Yūnīnī, † 658 A.H. (1260 A. D.). The Ṣaḥīḥ has been frequently printed. The very carefully vocalized edition (nine vols.) with marginal notes of variant A readings, printed in Bulāq in 1314 A. I1., is especially worthy of notice. The incomplete edition by Krehl (Recueil de traditions musulmanes, three vols., Leyden, 1802–68) represents the important recension of Abū Ḏarr, which shows a frequent verbal variation from the "standard" text. Among the many commentaries on the Ṣaḥīḥ, the Fatḥ Bārī of ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī † 852 A. H., printed in fifteen vols. at Bulāq, 1301 A.H.; the ʿUmdat al-Qārī of al-ʿAinī † 855, eleven vols., Constantinople, 1308; and the Iršād as-Sārī of al-Qasṭalānī † 923, ten vols., Bulāq, 1305, may be mentioned here. The last-named of these is especially useful. See further Brockelmann, Geschiechte der arabischen Litteratur, l. pp. 158 f.
In making the selection of passages for the present edition I have aimed to give the student some ide of the scope and method of the Ṣaḥīḥ, and at the it same time to provide interesting reading. I am confident that the latter object, at least, has been attained, and I believe that the traditions here collected will also be seen to be truly representative. This little chrestomathy may therefore be found useful to those who are beginning the study of Mohammedanism, as
