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Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2177] الدرة الفاخرة

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.  الدرة الفاخرة</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2177 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 670 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/184/mode/2up">670</a>. 2177. Size 93/4 in. by 53/4. Seventeen lines in a page. Foll. 1-15. A theosophic treatise on the Divine Essence, in which are reviewed the opinions of the Ṣûfîs, theologians, and philosophers. No title occurs in the work, but it has a recent inscription, درة فاخرة, which proves to be correct. The author is the celebrated <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068673.html">‘ABD AL-RAḤMÂN JÂMÎ</a> (d. A.H. 898), who entitled this treatise الدرة الفاخرة . See  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%C5%9Ff_az-Zun%C5%ABn">Ḥ. Kh</a>. iii. 207; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Leberecht_Fl%C3%BCgel">Flügel</a>, <a href="https://id.loc.gov/resources/works/3217598.html">Hdss</a>. Wien, iii. 409; Stewart’s Catal. 141, xxix. Well written. Additions of the author on the margin. Rubrics omitted. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_College">College of Fort William</a>.]

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 1529]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1529 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 668 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 668. 1529. Size 93/4 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 21. Thirteen lines in a page. رسالۀ خضر An account of al Khiḍr, the patron saint of the Ṣûfîs; the author is not named. Begins:الحمدلله الذى خص من اصطفاه للحضرة القدسية الخ. This treatise is a mere compilation. It is divided into five chapter, as follows: I.(fol.2) فى ذكر نسبه الخ ; II.(fol.5v.) فى اثبات حيوته الخ ; III. (fol. 11v.) فى الاحاديث التى رواها عن نبينا الخ (twenty traditions) ; IV. (fol. 14) فيما رُوى عنه و لم يرفعه الى النبى الخ (also twenty) ; V.(fol.19) فى ذكر اسباب بقائه الخ . According to a statement on fol. 4 this treatise was written in A.H. 860; therefore, it is probably that of IMÂM AL-KÂMILÎYAH (Kamâl al-dîn Muḥammad Shâfi’î, d. A.H. 874), mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. iii. 393. Well written in Nasta’liḳ, of the eleventh century. Marginal notes. Slightly injured by insects.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 1672]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1672 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 682 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 682. 1672. Size 91/2 by 53/4 in.; foll. 183. Eleven lines in a page. Another copy of the same work, well written in a large Nasta’liḳ. This copy was made by Muḥammad Najîb Khân, for his own use, at سيكاكول , near Ḥaidarâbâd. Date, 1 Jum. I., 1149. [Tippu.]

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 794]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 794 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 680 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 680. 794. Size 91/2 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 210. Nine lines in a page. A compendious work on Asceticism, called عين العلم . It is not an abridgment of Ghazzâlî’s Iḥyâ, as is stated by Stewart (Catal. 139), who followed a notice on the margin of this MS. (fol. 1v.).1 The author is not named, 2 but it would appear that he was an Indian scholar. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 282. The work is introduced by an elaborate preface, which begins:يا ربّ يا ربّاه باسمك ابتدى ‘ بك اقتدى‘ وبنور قدسك اهتدى . The author, imitating the old poets, complains of the ‘departure’ of knowledge and science, etc. He dedicates his work to a Saiyid of the Ḥusainî branch, named Ibrâhîm. It is divided into an introduction and twenty chapters, which are entitled as follows: المقدّمة فى العلم (fol. 4v.) ; Chap. I.الباب الاول فى الورد (fol. 10v.) ; II. فى الانفاق و القناعة (fol. 29v.); III.فى الصوم و كسر الشهوة (fol. 35v.) ; IV.فى السفر (fol. 40) ; V. فى التزوّج و التخلّى (fol. 47v.) ; VI.فى الكسب و الورع (fol. 55v.); VII. فى الاتباع فى المعيشة (fol. 60v.) VIII. فى الصحبة (fol.81) ; IX. فى الصمت و آفات اللسان (fol. 102v.); X. فى الانابة و الحلم و العفو و النصيحة (fol. 118); XI. فى العزلة و الخمولة و حبّ الذمّ و بغض المدح (fol. 122v.); XII.فى التواضع و ذكر المنّة (fol.129) ; XIII. فى الاخلاص و النية و الصدق (fol. 134v.); XIV.فى التفويض و قصر الامل (fol. 150) ; XV.فى نفى الخواطر و الرياضة (fol. 154); XVI.فى التوبة و المرابطة و التقوى (fol.163v.); XVII.فى الصبر و الرضا و الشكر (fol. 175v.);XVIII. فى الخوف و الرجاء (fol. 184); XIX. فى الفقر و الزهد (fol. 190); XX.فى التوحيد و التوكل و اليقين (fol. 198). The work concludes with an appendix, الخاتمة فى المحبّة و السلوك (fol. 206). Well written in a large hand. Dated Ramaḍân, 1037. The titles are in gold, and the formula which introduces the traditions quoted by the author ( ورد حand the like) is always in blue. Frequent explanations, extracted from a commentary and from other works, are added on the margin; others are written between the lines. Many ornaments. Foll.144, 169, and 170 are injured. Seal of ‘Abd al-ṣamad Khân Bahâdur Dilîr Jang, dated A.H. 1189. [Tippu.]   1 ان بعض علماء الهند اختصر الاحياء اختصارا بليغا سماه عين العلم الخ . This notice is ascribed to Ibn Ḥajar. 2 Only by Stewart, l.c., he is called Yaḥya b. ‘Abd al-raḥmân.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2051]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2051 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 675 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 675. 2051. Size 93/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 360. Nineteen lines in a page. ‘Abd al-wahhâb b. Aḥmad SHA’RÂNÎ’S (d. A.H. 976) اليواقيت و الجواهر فى بيان عقائد الاكابر , or system of Mystic Theology, which he composed A.H. 955. It has been fully analysed by Flügel in Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. morgenl. Gesellsch. xx. 1 sqq.; see also Hdss. Wien, iii. 391, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 106. The work was printed at Cairo, A.H. 1277. This copy is preceded by an index. It is written in Nasta’liḳ. Date, Sha’bân, 1097. The paper is flimsy and injured in several places. Some leaves are misplaced in binding: foll. 102-7 should be placed after fol. 83, and fol. 101 between foll. 138 and 139; foll. 337 and 342 should be transposed. [College of Fort William, 1825.]

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 1815]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1815 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 673 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 673. 1815. Size 93/4 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 214. Twenty-one lines in a page. A Collection of Moral Sentences, entitled جوامع الكلم فى المواعظ و الحكم , by (‘Alâ al-dîn, or Nûr al-dîn) ‘Alî b. Ḥusâm al-dîn (Hindî Makkî) commonly called MUTTAḲI, a Ḥanafite (of Burhânpûr, d. A.H. 975, at Makkah). Cf. Cat. Mus. Brit. 756 n.; Ḥ. Kh. ii. 553, etc. The preface begins:الحمد لله الذى نوّر قلوب العارفين فاقتبسوا من لوامع كلامه و كلام رسوله غرر وجوه المعانى و الاشارات. The author states that this collection consists of about 3000 sentences (حِكَم) , viz. 500 اقتباسات , or sentences mixed with quotations from the Koran ; 1 500 تضمينات , or traditions which, on account of their conciseness, are preceded by an introductory and explanatory phrase, rhymed with them; 2 300 sentences of Ibn ‘Aṭâ (see below, no. 696), and 100 of his ‘’disciple’’ ( تلميذه , i.e. according to a marginal note, داود بن باخلا ) ; the rest being sayings of the ‘’Ancients’’ (من كلام السلف) . These materials, which follow invariably in the order just mentioned, are distributed under some eighty heads, which are arranged alphabetically, as باب فى الايمان , باب فى الاحسان , and so forth. A list of them is inserted after the introduction (مقدّمة) , which treats of the definition of حكمة . As to the general character of the work, the author remarks (fol.2): كمال لذّة هذا التاليف موقوف على ان يكون الشخص حافظاً مفسّراً محدّثا و ان يكون له ذوق من علوم الصوفية. Conclusion : اتممتُ الكتاب حامداً مصلياً .... و انا الفقير علىّ المتّقى الراجى من الله العطايا و الهبات و هو الذى يقبل التوبة من عباده و يعفو عن السّيئآت. Well written, of the eleventh century. Emended. Numerous marginal notes, some of which are derived from the author. An omission has been supplied by a different hand (foll. 15-17). Foll. 150-152 and 148-149 should be transposed. Slightly injured by insects.     1 Cf. Sprenger’s Dictionary of Technical Terms, p. ١١٨٧. 2 They are defined, in a marginal note, as الاحاديث التى ذكرت قبلها توطئتها و تمهيدها.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 1180]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1180 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 684 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 684. 1180. Size 9 in. by 5 in.; foll. 59. Seventeen lines in a page. An anonymous Commentary (ممزوج) on the theosophic treatise, التحفة المرسلة الى النبىّ , by MUḤAMMAD B. FAḌL ALLAH Hindi Burhânpûrî (d. A.H. 1029). The latter was a disciple of Shaikh Wajîh al-dîn b. Ḳâḍi Naṣr Allah ‘Alawî Hindi Aḥmadâbâdi, who lived from A.H. 910 to 998, and was the pupil of Shaikh Muḥammad b. Khaṭîr al-din Ḥusainî, commonly called al-Ghauth, the author of الجواهر الخمسة (see above, no. 671). A co-disciple of the author’s, Shaikh of Ṣibghat Allah b. Rûḥ Allah b. Jamâl Allah Ḥusainî Hindî Barûjî, who died at Madînah, was the Shaikh of Abu’l-mawâhib Aḥmad b. ‘Alî b. ‘Abd al-ḳuddûs Ḳurashî ‘Abbâsî Shinnâwî Madanî, and a pupil of the latter was شيخنا الامام ثم الهدلى الانصارى المعروف بالقشار طيفى (!) الدين احمد بن يونس بن احمد المقدسى الرجالى ثم المدنى الانصارى المعروف بالقَشارى (!)1 , who was born A.H. 991, and died A.H. 1071, at Madînah, and was the Shaikh of the author of the present commentary. The latter, therefore, lived in the eleventh century, probably at Madinah. His name is not mentioned, His commentary is entitled اتحاف الزكىّ بشرح التحفة المرسلة الى النبىّ . He wrote it for the instruction of the Muḥammadans of Java, whose notions of orthodoxy had recently been troubled by the introduction of Ṣûfî writings, which their divines were not able to interpret. He, therefore, selected the present treatise, which was very popular with them, in order to show its entire accordance with the doctrines of the Koran and the Sunnah. The preface begins:الحمدلله الاول الذى ليس قبله شئ . The commentary refers only to the commencement of the treatise, and its chief subject is the absolute essence (الوجود) . The treatise begins:الحمد لله رب العالمين اما بعد فيقول العبد .. 2 هذه نبذة من الكلمات فى علم الحقائق الخ. Well written, of about A.H. 1100. The text of the treatise has been added at the end, by a different hand; the greater part of it is, however, lost. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 47. [Tippu.]     1 These names are given more correctly in no. 696, II. 2 Here follows the name of the author, as given above.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2106]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2106 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 690 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 690. 2106. Size 81/4 in. by 53/4 in. ; foll. 78. From eleven to thirteen lines in a page. An obscure tract, in which strange ideas are developed regarding the creation, the angels, the resurrection, and kindred subjects. It is inscribed on the title-page دقائق الحقائق . Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 162, xxviii. Begins:الحمدلله ربّ العالمين ... قد جاء فى الخبر انّ الله تعالى خلق شجرة و لها اربعة اغصان فسمّاها شجرة اليقين ثم خلق نور محمد صلعم فى حجاب من درّة بيضاء مثله كمثل الطاءوس ووضعه على تلك الشجرة فسبّح عليها مقدار سبعين الف سنة ثم خلق مرءات الحياء الخ. Written in a large hand, with all the vowel-points, and frequent Persian interlineations. Of the twelfth century. [College of Fort William.]

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 1447]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1447 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 617 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 617. 1447. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 358. Eighteen lines in a page. كتاب غنية الطالبين تصنيف سلطان الاولياء برهان الاصفياء سيد محيى الدين عبدالقادر الجيلانى قدس الله تعالى سره العزيز. A large work on Religious Duties, by ‘ABD AL-ḲÂDIR JÎLÂNÎ. This work comprises also theological matter, treats at great length of the properties of the single months and days of the week (فى ذكر فضائل الشهور و الايام المباركة), and of prayer, and concludes with rules of asceticism, آداب المريدين. It is merely mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. iv. 338. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 149. Begins:الحمدلله الذى بتحميده يستفتح كل كتاب . The author says subsequently: اما بعد فقد الحّ علىَّ بعضُ اصحابى و شدد فى الخطاب فى تصنيف هذا الكتاب لحسن ظنه فى الاصابة للصواب .... فلما رايت صدق رغبته فى معرفة الآداب الشرعية من الفرائض و الاركان و السنن و النيات و معرفة الصانع عز و جل بالآيات و العلامات ثم الاتّعاظ بمواعظ القرآن و الالفاظ النبوية فى مجالس نذكرها (fol.8) و معرفة اخلاق الصالحين نستمدّ بها فى اثناء الكتاب ليكون عونا له على سلوك طريق الله عز و جل و امتثال اوامره و انتهاء نواهيه1 ووجدت له نيةً صادقة صَدَرَتْ من فتوح الغيب فى اجابته فاجبته الى ذلك الخ. Plainly written. Completed on Saturday, 17th Dhu’l-ḳa’dah, 1169, at Muḥammadpûr-Arkât (فى بلدة دار النور محمد پور المعروف باركات).Prefixed is a detailed list of contents (foll. 1-6). An interlinear Persian version is added to a few passages. Seal of ‘Abd al-wahhâb Khân (Nuṣrat Jang). In the original binding of Tippu’s library. [Tippu.]   1 This passage gives a fair outline of the contents of the work.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 381]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 381 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 606 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 606. B 381. Size 101/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 207. At first twenty-three, afterwards mostly twenty-five lines in a page. The first part (ربع العبادات) of the Iḥyâ, consisting of two separate volumes. The first, which concludes (fol. 163) with Book viii. (كتاب آداب تلاوة القران), is written in a clear steady hand, though without any vowel-points, of the ninth century. Only foll. 1-58 have been supplied at a modern date. The second volume, which begins (fol. 164v.) with كتاب الاذكار و الدعوات, is older than the first, and may belong to the eighth or even the seventh century. It is written in a bold hand, often with vowel-points, and has occasional emendations. The end is slightly injured by insects. This MS. was once the property of ‘Abd al-bâḳi b. Ḥusain Ḥusainî.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 382]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 382 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 612 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 612. B 382. Size 10 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 15. About twenty lines in a page. كتاب الرسالة اللَّدُنيّة للامام حجة الاسلام محمد بن محمد بن محمد الغزالى الطوسى الخ. A short treatise of GHAZZÂLÎ (d. A.H. 505), in which he claims for Ṣûfism (العلم الغيبى اللدنى) the name of a science (علم). He also gives a general classification of the Muḥammadan sciences. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 436, who gives an abstract of the preface. The author says in conclusion:و شرائط التفكر نحصر فى رسالة اخرى .... و الآن نختم هذه الرسالة فانّ فى هذه الكلمات كفاية لاهلها و من لم يجعل الله له نوراً فما له من نور والله ولىّ التوفيق و عليه التكلان. Written in a large plain hand, by order of Saiyid ‘Abdallah b. ‘Alawî al-Ḥaddâd. Revised. An unfinished notice of Khalîl b. Aḥmad, and some poetry, are on the last page. The birth-days of two sons of Saiyid ‘Omar فقيه are noted on the title-page. ; viz., ‘Aidarûs, born on 29th Ramaḍân, 1067, and Shaikh, born on 3rd Dhu’l-ḥijjah, 1069. Cat. 232, xviii.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2243] ملفوظ

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2243 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 621 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 621. 2243. Size 12 in. by 73/4 in.; foll. 365. Twelve lines in a page. An elegant copy of the <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5528291">same work</a>, well written in a bold hand. Ornamented and gilt. It is stated in the long colophon, that this copy was made for ‘Abd al-ḥamîd Khân Miyânah, son of Nawwâb ‘Abd al-nabî Khân, by Saiyid Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Riḍa Bahâri, at Sidhaut (در قلعه سدهوت). Date, Tuesday, 23rd Dhu’l-ḥijjah, 1163. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_College">College of Fort William</a>.]

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2049] شرح الجامي على فصوص الحكم

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2049 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 648 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/174/mode/2up">648</a>. 2049. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 212. Twenty one lines in a page. Another copy of <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068673.html">JÂMÎ</a>’s Commentary on the <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_1037">فصوص الحكم</a> [known sometimes as <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_3265">نقد النصوص في شرح نقش الفصوص</a>]. Carelessly written in Nasta’liḳ, excepting foll. 1-13, which are transcribed in a plain Naskh. Blue lines round the pages. The two pages 161v. and 162r. have been copied in wrong order. Fol. 138 should be placed after 140. Slightly injured by insects. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang. Binding of <a href="https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50052021/">Tippu</a>’s library. Cf. <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86026042/">[Charles] Stewart</a>’s <a href="https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/details:bsb10218720">Catal</a>. 47. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_College">College of Fort William</a>, 1825.]

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 393B]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 393B in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 637 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 637. B393B. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 437. Seventeen and eighteen lines in a page. Another fragment of الفتوحات المكّيّة, containing from chapter 351 to chapter 383. Imperfect at the beginning. The first words are :مسئلة قد فشت. Ends (fol. 437r.) in the inscription of chapter 384. Plainly written. The text of foll. 175-191 is repeated on the leaves next following, as far as fol. 207. It would appear that this copy was transcribed from no. 630. Foll. 113-127, and also 380-382, are much injured. Defects after foll. 127 and 151.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 420C]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 420C in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 656 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 656. B 420C. Size 71/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 57. Seventeen lines in a page. A fragment of the preceding work, plainly written. A few leaves are missing both at the beginning and end. Begins:لانه عبارة عن الفيض . There are defects after foll. 6, 7, 39 (slight), and 53. Cat. 232, xix. 1, 3.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 416]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 416 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 669 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 669. B 416. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 10. Twenty one lines in a page. سلاح الوفائيّة بثغر الاسكندرية و سماه بعضهم رسالة الاولياء للشيخ الامام الاستاذ الولى الكبير ... صفى الدين محمد بن احمد بن محمد التونسى الشاذلى المعروف بابى المواهب رضى الله عنه. A Guide on the Mystic Path, by Ṣafî al-dîn ABU’L MAWÂHIB Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Tûnisî Shâdhilî, of the Wafâ’îyah branch of the Shâdhilî sect1 (d. A.H. 882). Cf. Cat. Mus. Brit. 464, and Ḥ. Kh. iii. 83. Begins:يقول العبد الفقير المعترف بالتقصير محمد ابن احمد بن محمد التونسى الشاذلى الوفائىّ المدعو بابى المواهب عفى الله (عنه) آمين الحمد لله الذى من والاه تولاه و من اصطفاه صفاه الخ. III written, of about A.H. 1100. Notes and corrections by a different hand. A few sayings of the author and of Shaikh Dâ’ûd Shâdhilî are added at the end, and a notice of the author, taken from SHA’RÂNÎ’S الطبقات , is written on the title-page, all in the latter hand.   1 Follower of ‘Alî Wafâ, on whom see Von Haneberg in Zeitschr. d. Dentsch. morgenl. Ges. vii. 24.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 84] Anthology including نهج السعادة

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 84 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 697 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/196/mode/2up">697</a>. B 84. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 485. Twenty-two, nineteen, and ten lines in a page. I. Foll. 1-443. ‘OMAR B. ‘ABD AL-WAHHÂB’S (Ḳâdirî ‘Urḍî Ḥalabî Makkî, d. A.H. 1024) Commentary on his own mystic Ḳasîdah, لاميّة الشرف . It is entitled (fol. 2v.) نهج السعادة و نسج الافادة. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 291 sq., who, however, gives the title somewhat differently. The name of the author does not occur in this MS. It begins:الحمدلله الذى انزل على عبده الكتاب المبين ‘ و اصطفى آدم و نوحا و آل ابرهيم و آل عمران على العالمين. The whole Ḳaṣîdah is inserted after the preface. The commentary is very copious; numerous other verses are quoted in it. It concludes with a Ḳaṣîdah by the author, each verse of which is devoted to one letter of the alphabet. It begins: الف الالوهة اوّل الايجاد و قيامها لجوامع الافراد It is also accompanied by a commentary. II. Foll. 443-466v. مواقف الحق على بساط الخلق . This appears to be a fragment of <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr89017714/">MUḤAMMAD B. ‘ABD AL-JABBÂR</a>’S كتاب المواقف (see no. 597). Begins: موقف العُلَى بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وما توفيقى الا بالله القادر العليم اوقفنى الله العلى الاعلى فى مقام العلا و قال لى افتح بصيرة نظرك الخ  The last ‘’station’’ which occurs here is موقف اسماء الروح  III. Foll. 466v.-485. Forty sayings of the Prophet, each illustrated by a hemistich; entitled الترياق لاهل الاستحقاق   According to Ḥ. Kh. ii. 286, this collection was made by <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068673.html">JÂMÎ</a>. The preface begins: الحمدلله منزل الكتاب‘ و معلم الصواب ... و بعد فان فضل الانسان بنطق اللسان Imperfect at the end. This MS. is written in a bold hand, which becomes very large in the latter portion. After fol. 21 is a defect, and the following leaves are injured. The last fol. is torn. The first twenty-one leaves, which bear the correct title, had been separated from the rest, and the latter erroneously inscribed انفاس الخواص . Cf. Cat. 230, xii. And 232, xvii.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 414A]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 414A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 695 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 695. B 414A. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 16. About twenty lines in a page. I.Foll. 1-3v. Sayings of inspired men, collected by IBN ‘ARABÎ. Begins:قال الشيخ الامام المحقق المتبحر ابوعبد الله محمد بن على بن محمد بن العربى الطائى الحاتمى رضى الله عنه هذا كتاب الاعلام باشارات اهل الالهام سالنى في تقييده بعض من يكرم علىّ من الاخوان فامتثلت رسومه على وفق ما تمنى الخ. These sayings amount to about 260, and are divided into chapters, according to the subjects, as follows: فى الرؤية فى انواع شتّى. ; فى السماع ; فى الكلام ; فى التوحيد ; فى المعرفة ; II. Foll. 3v.-4. A fragment of a cabbalistic treatise. Beginning: كتاب القوانين كان ثلاثة احرف و الخاء حرفان الخ. Written in a different hand from the rest, terminating abruptly with fol.4. III.Foll.5-16. A mystic discourse, by an unknown author. Begins:الحمد لله الذى بسط مهاد الدين للعالمين ... و بعد فهذ(ا) خطاب للموقنين بنفحة من نفحات اليقين. Written, like no. I., by Ḥusain b. ‘Abdallah b. ‘Alawî al-‘Aidarûs. Dated Sunday, 12th Rajab, 1143. Slightly injured. Cat. 232, xliii. (?) and xlii.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 452]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 452 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 694 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 694. B 452. Size 91/2 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 60. Nineteen lines in a page. I.Foll. 1-6. كتاب الثالث 1 فى الحجّ . A letter addressed to a person who has the intention of leaving Makkah, and who is strongly advised to stay there. The author is not named. Begins:…. حفظك الله يا اخى بحفظ الايمان اما بعد فانّى كتبتُ اليك و انا و من قِبَلى من الاقارب و الاخوان على افضل حال و ربّنا محمود لا شريك له و صلى الله على سيدنا محمد و اله و سلم اما بعد فقد انتهى الىّ ابقاك الله انّك على الشخوص من حرم الله تعالى و التحوّل منه الى غيره و انّى كرهتُ و الله ذلك الخ. The author in the course of this letter frequently quotes the Koran and the Tradition. He says in conclusion: و اياك يا اخى ثم اياك ان تخرج من مكة فلو لم يدخل عليك الاّ فلسان من حلال لكان خيرا لك من ان يدخل عليك فى غيرها الفان الخ. Carefully written in a good hand, probably by Ibrâhîm b. Maḥmûd b. Ibrâhîm, whose seal (A.H. 1037) is at the end. II.Foll. 6v.-11. كتاب الرابع الخ . A tract on Asceticism, by IBN ‘ARABÎ, entitled حلية الابدال و ما يظهر منها من المعارف و الاحوال . See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 108, for an abstract of the preface. It treats of the four ‘’columns’’ of the ascetic life: silence, solitude, hunger, and watching (الصمت ، السهر ، الجوع ، العزلة). Written in a huried hand. III. Foll. 11v-14. كتاب الخامس الخ . A Persian treatise on the recitation of the words لا اله الآ الله . It is entitled بداية الذاكرين . Begins: الحمد لله رب العالمين كما هو اهله . The author, whose name does not occur, mentions at the beginning his son Darwîsh ‘Aṭâ Allah. Clearly written. Imperfect at the end. IV.Foll. 15-45. A fragment of a concise work on Ethics and Asceticism, founded upon alleged sayings of the Imâm JA’FAR ṢÂDIḲ, whose name occurs at the beginning of each chapter. Imperfect at the beginning. Defects after foll. 20 and 28. The first heading is باب الاحكام . V.Foll.45v-60. كتاب الثانى المسمى بالتجريد فى كلمة التوحيد . A mystic treatise in explanation of the words لا اله الآ الله , by AḤMAD b. Muḥammad GHAZZÂLÎ (d. A.H. 520), the brother of the great Imâm. See Ḥ.Kh. ii. 204, and Gosche in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1858, p. 250 and 296. Begins: قال الشيخ الامام جمال الاسلام احمد بن محمد بن محمد بن محمد (!) الغزالى رضى الله عنه فى الحديث الصحيح و النقل الوارد الصحيح عن سيد البشر محمد الصطفى الخ. It is divided into numerous sections (فصل) . The last two tracts are written in the same hand as no. I. They stood originally at the beginning of the volume.   1 See end of article.

Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 129]

<ul> <li>Ṣûfism and Ethics. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 129 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 691 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/194/mode/2up?view=theater">691</a>. B 129. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 69. Twenty-three lines in a page. A Commentary (by قوله ) on a mystic Ḳaṣîdah, the beginning, rhyme, and author of which have not been ascertained. Plainly written, on European paper, of the twelfth century. The words of the poem to be explained are often omitted. Begins:.. اى اغنيت من حاجتى الى السكر من جهة الافاقة الخ. The next paragraph begins:وراءَ بمعنى فوق و السكينة الطمانينة الخ ; the following, مشهدى من الاشهاد الخ ; etc. The last gloss is : التذكار بمعنى الذكر الخ ; and the book concludes : هذا آخر ما ايراده اردناه فى هذا المختصر من شرح القصيدة بعون الله الخ.