''Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ'' ( ar, مشكاة المصابيح, lit=The Niche of Lanterns) by Walī ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb at-Tibrīzī (d.1248) is an expanded and revised version of al-Baghawī's '' Maṣābīḥ as-Sunnah''. Khaṭīb at-Tibrīzī rendered this version of the original text more accessible to those not having an advanced knowledge of the

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It contains 5945 aḥādīth divided into 29 chapters and is considered to be an important collection of aḥādīth by Sunni Islamic scholars. An example of a hadith from Mishkat al-Masabih is as follows: "He is not a perfect believer, who goes to bed full and knows that his neighbour is hungry."''Mishkat Al-Masabih 2/424.

Differences from al-Baghawī's Maṣābīḥ as-Sunnah

Imām at-Tibrīzī added 1511 aḥādīth to the total of 4434 aḥādīth already in ''Maṣābīḥ as-Sunnah''. Al-Baghawī classified many aḥādīth as

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to which other scholars did not agree at times. At-Tibrīzī expounded on the classifications that al-Baghawī placed on the aḥādīth and re-classified many of them. He also added a third section to ''Masabih al-Sunnah'', which was already divided in two parts by al-Baghawī. This section consisted of narrations that he felt fit into the chapter and provided further clarification. Al-Baghawī did not mention the ''

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'' of the aḥādīth he collected whereas at-Tibrīzī mentions the source from which the aḥādīth can originally be found - making the text more reliable.

Commentaries

Many commentaries on the book have been written and published worldwide. * Commentary of Husayn ibn `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Tibi * ''Mirqat al Mafatih Sharh Mishkat al-masabih'' is a multi-volume work, authored by 17th century

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* ''Mirat ul Manajih Sharh Mishkat al-Masabih'' is an Urdu explanation authored by Mufti Ahmad Yaar Khan Naeemi * ''Midrajul Fawatih Sharh Miskhat al-Masabih'' authored in Bahasa Malaysia by Maulana Hasnul Hizam Hamzah

References

External links

Various books of explanation of Mishkat Al-Masabih
are available in English, Urdu, Arabic and Bangla at Australian Islamic Library

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Differences from al-Baghawī's Maṣābīḥ as-Sunnah

Commentaries

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