Talk:Mishkat al-Masabih

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unscientific and uncertain?![edit]

"Mishkat al-Masabih (English translation: A Niche for Lamps) is an expanded version of Al-Baghawi's Masabih al-Sunnah by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Khatib Al-Tabrizi." - this statement is not substantiated by a quote up to scientific standards: "Zirikli, al-A'lam, p. 6/234." - there is neither a year nor a place of publication (nor a publisher) - if the 'quotation' contains at all any reliable information regarding the statement...

In: Selections from Muhammadan Traditions; Goldsack, William, no site, no year, Atlantic Publishers; p. IV, (no further details given on https://books.google.de/books?id=wpKyh21Hgt8C&pg=PR4&lpg=PR4&dq=shaikh+waliyu%27d-din&source=bl&ots=CcFWTcEqr4&sig=UZuJYbhICNXEQwn2oASYHrg4gwo&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAGoVChMI3_ecucePxwIVC4osCh0grQr8#v=onepage&q=shaikh%20waliyu'd-din&f=false) it says: "In the year 737 A.H. Shaikh Waliyu'd Din Abu 'Abdu'llah Mahmud revised and enlarged the Masabih..." (sorry for the accents, my key-board can't do better...) Thomas Patrick Hughes in his "Dictionary of Islam" (New Delhi, 2004, Cosmo Publications, p. 365) also talks about a Shaikh Waliyu'd-din... is this the same person?

"It contains between 4434 and 5945 hadith..." - how many are there now actually...?

so please substantiate or delete...! (we are not all believers here, believing anything they are being told...) --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 13:37, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]