Lam'at al-tanqih fi sharh Mishkat al-masabih

Lam'at al-tanqih fi sharh Mishkat al-masabih is a commentary by Abd al-Haq al-Dihlawi al-Hanafi (d. 1052 AH) on Mishkat al-masabih of al-Khatib al-Tibrizi (his biography). ¹

Volume nine covers several chapters of the Mishkat. They include a section on miracles (scan page 494), a section on the "tajrid" (abstraction) figure (page 551), and sections on Qur'anic verses, such as "The Book of God is a rope stretched from heaven to earth" (page 708). On pages 775 and 780 the commentary turns to the writing down of revelation and to the Prophet ﷺ's letter to the polytheists of Mecca. ², ³, ⁴, ⁵

The volume was published by Dar al-Nawader in Damascus. The title page says it was printed at the expense of Shaykh Sultan ibn Zayed Al Nahyan, representative of the ruler of the United Arab Emirates. The copyright pages give the publisher's offices in Damascus, Beirut, Kuwait and Tunis. ¹, ⁶

A study by Sayyid Abd al-Majid al-Ghawri in al-Hadith, a refereed journal, no. 11 (Ramadan 1437 AH / June 2016), introduces Abd al-Haq al-Dihlawi and his works, then studies the Lam'at as hadith scholarship. ⁷

The study says that al-Dihlawi was born in Delhi in Muharram 958 AH (January 1551), was raised there under the religious upbringing of his father Sayf al-Din, and died in Delhi on 21 Rabi' I 1052 AH, aged about ninety-four. ⁸, ⁹

The editors' names on the title page are not legible in the OCR and are not recorded. The author's birth year is hard to read on the title page and has not been converted; it needs checking against the printed book. Page numbers are scan pages. ¹