Bustan al-Muhaddithin. Translated from the Persian into Arabic and annotated by Muhammad Akram Al-Nadwi. Translated into English by Aisha Bewley
Bustan al-Muhadditheen is a well known anthology of Hadith
sciences, major books of Hadith, and Muhadditheen. Written in Persian
in the early nineteenth century by Shah ’Abd al-’Aziz Dihlawi
(1745-1822), it has been extremely popular among scholars of Hadith in
the Indian-Subcontinent ever since. It surpasses other books written on
the same subject in Arabic, Persian, and other languages.
Shah ’Abd al-’Aziz Muhaddith Dihlawi Shah Abd al-’Aziz
(1745-1822) was born in Delhi. He studied under his father Shah Wali
Allah, and with his father’s famous students, Shah Muhammad ’Ashiq and
Mawlana Khwaja Aminullah. He was trained in fiqh by his
father-in-law Mawlana Nurullah. In 1762, Shah ’Abd al’Aziz succeeded
his father in the Madrasah Rahimiyah and soon emerged as the leading
Muslim scholar of his time. His students spread to every corner of
India.
Dr Muhammad Akram Al-Nadwi Dr Muhammad Akram Al-Nadwi, who
translated the present work from Persian into Arabic and annotated it,
was born in 1963 in Jaunpur, U.P., India. He was educated at Nadwat
al-’Ulama, Lucknow and the University of Lucknow, is the author and
translator of over 25 books on the Islamic Sciences and the Arabic
language. He taught Islamic Sciences at Nadwat al-’Ulama for six years.
Dr Akram joined the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in 1991 as a
Research Fellow.
