Nothing is known of the life of this author Ḥamid Anguri. His nisba indicates
he may have been a native of Ankara. His works suggest a well
educated man, at home in both Arabic and Persian.
The work was composed after Angūrī’s lost Kitāb al-Mu‘ashsharāt
wa’l-Mukhammasāt fī al-Aḥādīth al-Nabawiyya (کتاب المعشرات
و المعشرات فی المخمسات فی الأحاديث النبوية) . It is divided
into 40 short chapters (bāb), each headed with a hadith and illustrated with a
story, dealing with the basic elements of the Muslim’s life such as unity of God
(tawhid), prayer, knowledge, jihad, marriage, wine drinking. The work also contains
numerous verse quotations in Arabic and Persian. Show more
:Date of composition is Jumada I 773 (mentioned in preface). However,
Hajji Khalifa (), gives the date as Jumada I 763.