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HE Sahifa of Hammam b, Munabbih, critically edited by Dr. Hamidullah and published by the Academy of Damascus, is a very important publication of recent times, in Hadith literature.
It was compiled about the middle of the first century of the Islamic era and consists of 138 'traditions' on various subjects covering nineteen pages of the printed text.
In his introduction Dr Hamidullah has not only described the two Mss. of the booklet and given the life of its compiler and his teacher but has also discussed the knotty problems of the period of the commence• ment of the writing down and of the com• pilation of the Traditions of the Arabian Prophet.
important evidence showing that the compilation of the Traditions was begun not later than the middle of the first century of the Islamic era.
This book has been published for the One important feature of the booklet Islamic Research Association by the Oxford under review, however, is that no Isnad is University Press in 1952, with an 11ifroduc• attached to any single tradition contained tion by a German Orientalist R.
Mansuril• to his Sahih and was accepted and followed Ya man, who was then the "Babul-abwab" by a11 the Traditionists since about the 7oth (the highest dignitary) of the fourth Imam year of the Hijra as it is held by Horowitz of Zuhur, al-Moiz, who reigned in Egypt (Islamic Culture Vol. I pp.
I van ow, published for , the Islamic Research Association by Oxford U Diversity and my book "the Origins of our Jsmaili Creed and its system ''which is under publication.