[IO Islamic 868] Akhbâr-alaṣfiyâ

<ul> <li><strong>Akhb&acirc;r-alaṣfiy&acirc;&nbsp;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 641 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 868 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>641</p> <p>Akhb&acirc;r-alaṣfiy&acirc; (اخبار الاصفيا ) .</p> <p>A much smaller and less known work, of very similar contents, giving likewise biographies of all the famous Saints and Shaikhs who have lived or stayed in <em>India</em>, compiled by &lsquo;Abd-alṣamad bin Afḍal Muḥammad bin Y&ucirc;suf Anṣ&acirc;r&icirc;, a nephew of the famous Ab&ucirc;-alfḍl and editor of his official letters, the مكاتبات علاّمى , see above, Nos. 271-286 in this Cat., compare also Rieu iii. p. 1087^a, where as title of the present work is given: اخبارات الاصفيا . It was completed A.H. 1014 (A.D.1605, 1606) and dedicated to the emperor Jah&acirc;ng&icirc;r, see fol. 1^b, fol. 6^b, last line, fol. 7^a, ll. 15 and 16, and fol. 7^b, ll. 14 and 15. It contains short biographical accounts of 245 male and 4 female persons, beginning, like the preceding work, with Ghauth alṣamad&acirc;n&icirc; Ḳuṭb-i-rabb&acirc;n&icirc; Shaikh Muḥy&icirc;-ald&icirc;n Ab&ucirc; Muḥammad &lsquo;Abd-alḳ&acirc;dir alḥasan&icirc; alḥusain&icirc; aljil&acirc;n&icirc; ( born A.H. 471 = A.D. 1079, died A.H. 561 = A.D. 1166 ), see fol. 8^b, and ends with F&acirc;ṭimah S&acirc;limah, on fol. 70^a. A complete index on ff. 1^b-5^a; the work itself begins thus, on fol. 6^b: جهان جهان آفرين مرجان و جهان آفرين را كه جهان دانش و جان سخن بصاحب فطرتان الخ , and concludes on fol. 70^b. Ff. 71^b-74^b are filled by another hand with a story of Shaikh Sharaf-ald&icirc;n Ab&ucirc; &lsquo;Al&icirc; Ḳalandar of P&acirc;n&icirc;pat (who died A.H. 724=A.D. 1324, see Rieu ii. p. 668, and iii. p. 1090^b sq.). Copied by B&acirc;ḳir S&acirc;m&acirc;n&icirc;, in the thirty-first year of &lsquo;&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r&rsquo;s reign (A.H. 1098, 1099 = A.D. 1687, 1688).</p> <p>No. 868, ff. 74, ll. 19-28; very irregularly and unequally written in Shikasta; size, 10^5/8 in. by 6^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>