[IO Islamic 705] Rashaḥât-i-'ain-alḥayât رشحات عين الحيات

<ul> <li><strong>Rashaḥ&acirc;t-i-&rsquo;ain-alḥay&acirc;t.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 705 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 633 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>633</p> <p>Rashaḥ&acirc;t-i-&rsquo;ain-alḥay&acirc;t (رشحات عين الحيات ) .</p> <p>Another, better known, collection of biographies of great Naḳshband&icirc; Shaikhs, principally of Shaikh &lsquo;Ubaidall&acirc;h Aḥr&acirc;r, the spiritual guide of the author of this work, by &lsquo;Al&icirc; bin al-Ḥusain al-W&acirc;&rsquo;iż al-k&acirc;shif&icirc;, known as Ṣafi, who began to compile it A.H. 893 (A.D. 1488), and finished it after sixteen years&rsquo; labour , A.H. 909 (A.D. 1503, 1504) , see ff. 1^b, last line; 2^a, first line ; 3^a, ll. 6 and 7, and the last lines of the last page of this copy . The title رشحات forms a chronogram.</p> <p>Other copies are noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 360; Rieu i.p. 353; W. Pertsch, p. 121 (where the contents are fully described) ; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 563 ; Cat. Des MSS. et Xylogr. p. 299; Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 461, etc. A somewhat later date than 909, viz. A.H. 912 (A.D. 1506, 1507), appears on fol. 150^a, l. 7, in the chronogram: يكشنبه پنجم زشعبان . The author died A.H. 939 (A.D. 1532, 1533) . The Rashaḥ&acirc;t are divided into a <em>maḳ&acirc;lah</em> (containing the biographies of the former great Naḳshband&icirc; Shaikhs), three <em>maḳṣads</em> (giving an elaborate account of the ancestors, the life, sayings, deeds, and miracles of Shaikh &lsquo;Ubaid-all&acirc;h, born in Ramaḍ&acirc;n , A.H. 806 = A.D. 1404, March, April, died the 29th of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal, A.H. 895, خمس و تسعين و ثمانمائه , A.D. 1490, February 20, see fol. 307^b, ll. 7 and 8) , and a <em>kh&acirc;timah</em> (giving the story of the Shaikhs&rsquo; death). The full headings of the various chapters are as follows:</p> <p>مقاله در ذكر طبقات خواجگان سلسلۀ نقشبنديّه قدّس الله تعالى ارواحهم العليّه من اوّلها الى آخرها هم بوجه , اجمال وهم بطريق تفصيل &lsquo; , on fol. 3^b.</p> <p>مقصد اوّل در ذكر آباء و اجداد و اقرباى حضرت ايشان و تأريخ ولادت آن حضرت و احوال ایّام صبا و شمّۀ از شمائل و , on fol. 180^b.اخلاق و اطوار حضرت ايشان و ابتداى سفر و ديدن مشايخ زمان چه در ماوراء النهر و چه در خراسان &lsquo;</p> <p>مقصد دوم در ذكر بعضى از حقائق و معارف و دقائق و لطائف و حكايات و امثال كه در خلال احوال از حضرت ايشان بى واسطه استماع افتاده &lsquo; , on fol. 209^b.</p> <p>مقصد سيوم در ذكر بعضى از تصرّفات و امور غريبه كه بطريق خرق عادت از حضرت ايشان ظاهر شده است و نقل ثقات و عدول در آن بصحّت پيوسته &lsquo; , on fol. 242^a.</p> <p>خاتمه در ذكر تأريخ وفات حضرت ايشان و كيفيّت انتقال و ارتحال آنحضرت ازدار دنيا بدار آخرت , on fol. 307^b.</p> <p>Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1^b : الحمد لمن رشّ رشحات الحقائق و الحكم على قلوب العارفين بفيضه الاقدس و الصلوة على المظهر الاتمّ الخ .</p> <p>This copy is dated the 17^th of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah, A.H. 984 (A.D. 1577, March 7), by Muḥammad Ḥusain bin Maul&acirc;n&acirc; Ab&ucirc;-alḳ&acirc;sim of Har&acirc;t. Collated throughout. A Turkish translation of the work by Muḥammad Ma&rsquo;r&ucirc;f bin Muḥammad Shar&icirc;f al-&rsquo;Abb&acirc;s&icirc;, made A.H. 993 (A.D.1585) , is described in Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 74, printed Constantinople A.H. 1236, and B&ucirc;l&acirc;ḳ A.H. 1256. A small portion of another Turkish translation of the same, by &lsquo;&Acirc;rif Ćalab&icirc;, is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 31.</p> <p>No. 705, ff. 331, ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 7^1/4 in. by 4^5/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>