The fifth volume of the Catalog of Alexandria Municipal Library covers the works pertaining to prophetic traditions. It contents number 448 manuscripts of the rarest as well as oldest holdings of the Library, since the majority were written during the middle ages of the Arab Islamic civilization, rendering the catalog in hand exceptionally significant. Moreover, it includes the oldest manuscript in the entire collection, al-Jāmi‘ al-Sahīh- ‘The Comprehensive Corpus of Accurate Hadith’ (prophetic traditions) by Imam Muslim, transcribed in 368 H.

Number of pages: 394.

The General Organization of the Alexandria Library, 2001.