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Zujājat al-Maṣābīḥ زجاجة المصابيح
Zujājat al-Maṣābīḥ ("The Lamp-glass of the Lanterns") is the magnum opus of the erudite muḥaddith Abū al-Ḥasanāt al-Sayyid ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Sayyid Muẓaffar Ḥusayn al-Ḥaydarābādī, known as Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Shāh al-Naqshbandī al-Mujaddidī al-Qādrī, Muḥaddith of the Deccan (1292–1384 AH / 1875–1964 CE), may Allah have mercy on him.
It is a hadith encyclopedia of the proof-texts of Ḥanafī fiqh: the author gathered, from the treasuries of the Sunnah, the narrations upon which Ḥanafī rulings rest, and arranged them on the pattern of Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, whence its name. The printed Arabic edition referenced in this work is the first complete, verified and referenced publication of the work, edited and annotated by Abū Suhayl Muḥammad Saʿd Shaykh Raḥmatullāh and published by Maktabat Ismāʿīl.
The English translation presented in this edition was rendered from the Arabic by Syed Mohiuddin Qadri (Abū ʿImād) with the support and meticulous review of various Islamic scholars over a three-year period, presenting the first comprehensive English translation of this monumental hadith encyclopedia.
Nūr al-Maṣābīḥ نور المصابیح
Nūr al-Maṣābīḥ is the seven-volume Urdu translation and commentary of Zujājat al-Maṣābīḥ, rendered by Qudwat al-Muḥaddithīn Ḥaḍrat ʿAllāma Mawlānā Ḥājī Muḥammad Munīruddīn (may Allah have mercy on him), former Shaykh al-Ḥadīth of Jāmiʿa Niẓāmiyya and Khaṭīb of the Makkah Masjid, Hyderabad. It was published under the auspices of the Abul Hasanat Islamic Research Center, Hyderabad (ziaislamic.com), by Deccan Traders Book Sellers & Publishers, Hyderabad.
On this site the Urdu text is presented in full, translation and commentary, side by side with English, and every hadith is linked back to its place in Zujājat al-Maṣābīḥ.
The seventeen collections and their translators
Alongside the two books at the heart of this library stand seventeen further hadith collections, carried here so that every hadith of Zujājat al-Maṣābīḥ can be cross-referenced to its parallels. Their Arabic text and English translations are reproduced from sunnah.com, by way of the open hadith-json dataset compiled and published by Ahmed Abdelbaset, whose work in assembling that data made this cross-referencing possible. Neither the Arabic nor the English is our own work, and the translations below remain the work and the right of the translators and publishers named. We record them here with gratitude, and ask Allah to reward each of them.
- صحيح البخاريṢaḥīḥ al-BukhārīDr. Muḥammad Muḥsin KhānDār-us-Salām, 1997
- صحيح مسلمṢaḥīḥ MuslimʿAbdul Ḥamīd Ṣiddīqī
- سنن أبي داودSunan Abī DāwūdProf. Aḥmad Ḥasan
- جامع الترمذيJāmiʿ at-TirmidhīAbū KhaliylDār-us-Salām, 2007; ahadith edited and referenced by Ḥāfiẓ Abū Ṭāhir Zubayr ʿAlī Zaʼī
- سنن النسائيSunan an-NasāʼīNāṣiruddīn al-KhaṭṭābDār-us-Salām, 2007; edited by Hudā Khaṭṭāb, final review by Abū Khaliyl
- سنن ابن ماجهSunan Ibn MājahNāṣiruddīn al-KhaṭṭābDār-us-Salām, 2007; edited by Hudā Khaṭṭāb, final review by Abū Khaliyl
- موطأ مالكMuwaṭṭaʼ MālikʿĀʼisha ʿAbdarraḥmān at-Tarjumana (Bewley) and Yaʿqūb Johnson
- مسند أحمدMusnad AḥmadNāṣir Khaṭṭāb
- سنن الدارميSunan ad-DārimīNo published English translation; the Arabic text is given here on its own
- مشكاة المصابيحMishkāt al-MaṣābīḥJames Robson
- رياض الصالحينRiyāḍ aṣ-ṢāliḥīnDr. Muḥammad Amīn and Abū Usāma al-ʿArabī bin RazdūqDār-us-Salām edition
- بلوغ المرامBulūgh al-MarāmTranslator not named by the source
- الأدب المفردal-Adab al-MufradʿĀʼisha ʿAbdurraḥmān Bewley
- الشمائل المحمديةash-ShamāʼilTranslator not named by the source
- الأربعون النووية40 Ḥadīth of al-NawawīEzzeddin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies
- الأربعون القدسية40 Ḥadīth QudsīEzzeddin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies
- أربعون شاه ولي الله40 Ḥadīth of Shāh WalīullāhTranslator not named by the source
Where a translator is not named above, the source from which the text was taken does not identify one; the credit will be added as soon as it can be established. Sunan ad-Dārimī has never been published in English, so it appears here in Arabic alone.
The Noble Qurʼan القرآن الكريم
The Qurʼan is presented here in two scripts with five English translations beside it. The Uthmānī (Ḥafṣ) text and the font that sets it are those of the King Fahd Glorious Qurʼan Printing Complex, Madinah; the IndoPak text and its font come from the open DigitalKhatt project. The translations below are the work of their translators and remain theirs.
- The Clear QurʼanDr. Mustafa Khattab2018 edition
- The Meaning of the Glorious KoranMarmaduke Pickthall
- The Message of the QurʼanMuhammad Asad
- كنز الإيمانKanz al-ĪmānAʿlā Ḥaḍrat Imām Aḥmad Razā KhānUrdu translation; English rendering by Prof. Shah Faridul Haque
- عرفان القرآنʿIrfān al-QurʼānShaykh al-Islām Dr. Muḥammad Ṭāhir-ul-QādrīEnglish edition
This digital edition
The complete translation of Zujājat al-Maṣābīḥ from the original Arabic into English, the digitisation of the work, its comprehensive cross-referencing with the six canonical books and the Noble Qurʼan, and the creation of this digital library are the work of Syed Mohiuddin Qadri (Abū ʿImād), carried out under the umbrella of Madani Books, which he founded to preserve and share timeless Islamic texts. The undertaking was initiated by his late father Syed Jamalullah Qadri (Khusro), may Allah have mercy on him.
The English translation of the Arabic text was undertaken by Syed Mohiuddin Qadri over a period of approximately three years, with the support of various Islamic scholars who assisted and meticulously reviewed the text to ensure accuracy and scholarly fidelity.
May Allah accept this effort, illuminate the graves of the scholars whose work it preserves, and make it a beneficial ongoing charity (ṣadaqa jāriya) for all who contributed to it.