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Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 331]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 331 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. 116 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 116. B 331. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 281. Seventeen lines in a page. A fragment of a work on the ordinance of law and religion which are derived from the Koran. It belongs to the kind usually called احکام القران (see Ḥ. Kh. i. 173). As the MS. is imperfect at the beginning, the title and the name of the author cannot be ascertained. The latter lived, however, as appears from his quotations, not earlier than the tenth century. He goes over the whole Koran, selects those verses which contain ordinances of the said kind, and illustrates them at some length. Begins: سورة الفاتحة ام القران واصله و رئیسه تشتمل اجمالا علی جملة ما فی القران تفصیلا و کیف لا والکتاب یعرف بعنوانه و دیباجته ففیها شابتة (؟ثابتةsic, r.) من احکام الفقه و قواعد الاصول و مسائل الکلام. After enumerating the various ordinances derived from the first Sûrah, the author proceeds to Sû. 2, and in the first place explains v. 27 as in illustration of the question, مسئلة ان الاباحة اصل فی الاشیاء. Imperfect at the end, terminating at Sû. 16, 77. Plainly written on European paper, in the middle of the twelfth century. Erroneously inscribed اجتهادات شیخ اکبر محیی الدین ابن علی العربی در علم فقه. CF. Catal. 229, xxii. 2.

Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 303A]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 303A 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. 113 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 113. B 303A. Size 81/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 21: Fifteen lines in a page. An explanation of Sûrah 1, by ‘ABDALLAH B. ‘ABD AL- ḤAKÎM b. Shaikh <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86140758/">Shams al-dîn Siyâlkûtî</a>, the son of the prolific author above-mentioned.2 Preceded by an introductory treatise مقدّمة (foll. 2-6). Begins: الحمدلله الذی نزّل الکتاب بالحق هدی و ذکری لاولی الالباب. Well written, by ‘Abd al-dâ’im. Marginal notes. A defect after fol. 17. Cf. Cat. p. 222, xii., where the treatise is styled اسرار الفاتحة.     2 See No. 90.

Koranic Science, a Commentary [ IO Bijapur 311]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 311 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. 112 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 112. B 311. Size 91/4 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 421. Twenty-three and twenty-five lines in a page. The final portion of a concise Commentary (ممزوج) or paraphrase of the Koran, in the mystical way; title and author not ascertained.1 It begins with Sûrah 7, thus: سورة الاعراف سمّیت بها لانها من المنازل الرفیعة لاهل الکمال المقتضین علی سائر الطوائف فشانها اولی بالاعتبار من سائر الشیون المذکورة فی هذه السورة بسم الله الجامع للکمالات. The commentary on each following Sûrah begins in the same way (به or سمّیت بها). Next follows an ever-varying paraphrase of the Basmalah; and it concludes with a pious peroration. Clearly written in two different hands for, and probably in part by, Shâh Makhdûm Ḳâdirî, about A.H. 1100. Imperfect at the end. Single leaves are wanting after foll. 150, 293, and 412.   1 On the title-page (sic) تفسیر الحر.

Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 314]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 314 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. 115 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 115. B 314. Size 8 in. by 41/2 in.; foll. 49. Thirteen lines in a page. A short treatise on the abrogated verses of the Koran (الناسخ و المنسوخ), following the order of the Sûrahs, by an unknown author. The beginning is wanting; the first words are: فعلی هذا التفسیر یکون حکم القائل به ثابتا غیر منسوخ. At the end a computation, according to which there are 150 abrogated (منسوخ) and 86 abrogating verses (ناسخ) in the Koran. Plainly written. A defect after fol. 17.

Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 307]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 307  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. 108 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 108. B 307. Uniform with the preceding MS.; foll. 406. The second part of the preceding Commentary, imperfect at the beginning. The first words are: عن فناء الفناء, referring to Sû. 17, 1. Part of it written in a different hand. Frequent blanks in the final portion. One sheet is missing after fol. 20. Both this and the preceding MS. are wrongly said to be Nasafî’s مدارک التنزیل. Cf. Catal. p. 222, ix. 3.

Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 290] ممزوج

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 290 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. 103 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 103. B 290. Size 93/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 485. Twenty-five lines in a page. A Commentary (ممزوج), or Paraphrase of the Koran, by MUḤAMMAD b. Aḥmad b. Naṣîr..,1 styled التفسیر المحمدی, and composed in A. H. 981-2, according to the author’s conclusion, which runs as follows [ed note: and wherein the author supplies the date for the completion of the work in AH 982 = 1574-75 CE).  و قد اتفق اتمام هذا التفسیرالمشتمل علی ربط کل آیة بآیة اخری رباطا تامّاً الموسوم بالتفسیر المحمدی فی الشهر الرمضان فی یوم الاثنین و اسال الله سبحانه ان یعم نفعه للطلاب و لا یخلّی سعی من نظر فیه من الاجر و الثواب و کان ابتداؤه فی شهر شعبان فی السنة ۹۸۱ التسعمائة و الاحدی و الثمانین و اختتامه فی السنة ۹۸۲ التسعمائة و الاثنتین و الثمانین The preface begins: الحمدلله الذی انزل علی عبده الکتاب معجزا قائما علی امر الدور Well written, by Shâh Muḥammad b. Kabîr Muḥammad, and dated 28 Ṣafar, 1013 (= 26 July 1604 CE). Coloured lines round each page. [<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86026042/">Charles Stewart</a>’s] <a href="https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/details:bsb10218720">Catal</a>. p. 222, vi.   1 The rest of the name, which occurs in the preface, is mutilated; the following words are still legible: المعروف.. میانجیو بن نصیر.

Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 306]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 306 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. 107 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 107. B 306. Size 81/4 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 472. Seventeen lines in a page. The first part of a Mystical Commentary on the Koran, imperfect both at the beginning and the end. It now begins with Sû. 2, thus: سورة البقرة قوله تعالی آلم معناه ان الالف اشارة الی وحدانیة الذات و اللام اشارة الی ازلیة الصفات و المیم اشارة الی ملکه فی اظهار الآیات, and terminates abruptly near the end of Sû. 15. Plainly written.

Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 100]

<ul> <li>Tradition.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 100 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. 130 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/28/mode/2up?view=theater">130</a>. B 100. Size 101/2 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 896. Twenty-one lines in a page. A copy taken from the <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4499027">preceding MS</a>. in its present injured condition. Plain handwriting. Blanks instead of the mutilated passages of the original. Rubrics omitted in the latter portion. The scribe calls himself Shaikh Muḥammad b. Shaikh ‘Abd al-laṭîf. [Bijapur Collection]

Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 99] غایة التوضیح للجامع الصحیح

<ul> <li>Tradition.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 99 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. 129 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/28/mode/2up">129</a>. B 99. Size 121/4 in. by 9 in.; foll. 375. Thirty-one lines in a page. A Commentary on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari">Ṣaḥîḥ</a>, entitled <a href="https://bukhari.islamweb.net/handle/1234/7436">غایة التوضیح للجامع الصحیح</a>, by ‘OTHMÂN b. Ibrâhîm Ṣiddîḳî Ḥanafî, who appears to have lived in the tenth century of the Hijrah. The author says in his preface that he compiled his work from the commentaries of <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004042364.html">Karmânî</a>, ‘<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471116">Asḳalânî</a>, <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92013894.html">Ḳastalânî</a>, and <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85203389.html">Zarkashî</a>, and also, in the first portion, from the فیض الباری, a commentary by Saiyid ‘Abd al-awwal [ed. note. apparently <a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282580/page/n147/mode/2up?q=Zaidpuri">Saiyid 'Abd al-Awwal b. 'Ali al-Din b. Hasan Husaini Zaidpuri</a>]. There precedes (foll. 2-6) an introduction in nine sections (فصل), treating in general of the science of tradition, of <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241026">Bukhârî</a>, of the names and chronology of traditionists, etc. The commentary itself consists of annotations on single passages of the text, the first words of which are only given, introduced by قوله. Begins:  الحمدلله الذی شرح صدور المحدثین بالهام السنة النبویة Written in different hands, about A. H. 1000. The final leaves are mutilated, and the beginning is also injured. Cat. p. 223, i. 7. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijapur_Collection">Bijapur Collection</a>]

Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 102]

<ul> <li>Tradition.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 102 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. 126 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/28/mode/2up?view=theater">126</a>. B 102. Size 11 in. By 63/4 in.; foll. 441. Twenty-seven lines in a page. The first portion of a large Commentary on the Ṣaḥîḥ, by Badr al-dîn Abu Muḥammad Maḥmûd b. Aḥmad ‘AINÎ Ḥanafî (of ‘Aintâb, flourished at Cairo, where he died in A. H. 855),2 entitled: عمدة القاری فی شرح البخاری. See Ḥ. Kh. ii. 527, whose statements are partly taken from the preface, which treats of the origin of the work, of the Isnâds connecting the author with Bukhârî, etc. (foll. 1-7). The commentary is very prolix, especially at the beginning. The text of Bukhârî is always added, marked with ص. This MS. Ends abruptly in Book IV. کتاب الوضوء, chap. باب الاستثناء فی الوضوء. It is neatly written, but not correct. Several blanks. Cat. 223, i. 4. 2 See for an account of him, Quatremère, Sult. Maml. i. 2, p. 219 sqq.

Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 101]

<ul> <li>Tradition.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 101 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. 125 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 125. B 101. Size 101/2 in. by 71/4 in.; foll. 270. Thirty-one lines in a page. IBN ḤAJAR ‘ASḲALÂNÎ’S (Shihâb al-dîn Abu’l-faḍl Aḥmad b. ‘Alî, d. A. H. 852) Introduction to his large Commentary on the Ṣaḥîḥ called فتح الباری. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 525; Cat. Mus. Brit. 111; Bibl. Sprenger. 498; and on the author, Quatremère, Hist. des Sultans Mamlouks, i. 2, p. 209 sqq. This introduction was written in A. H. 813, and titled هدی الساری. It is divided into ten sections (فصل), treating of the object and materials of the Ṣaḥîḥ, of its method of quoting traditions, of the names of traditionists, etc., and concludes with a notice of Bukhârî. The present copy is imperfect both at the beginning and end; it commences with the end of the first section. The second section1 is inscribed: فی بیان موضوعه و الکشف عن مغزاه فیه. Written in a good, clear hand, of the ninth century. Both the beginning and the end are much injured by insects.     1 An extract of it may be read in Ḥ. Kh. ii. 514 sq.

Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 97] صحيح البخاري [part]

<ul> <li>Tradition.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 97 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. 122 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/26/mode/2up?view=theater">122</a>. B 97. Size 12 in. by 8 in.; foll. 290. Seventeen lines in a page. The first quarter of the Ṣaḥîḥ, beginning with the same Isnâd as <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4488371">No. 119</a>. Clearly written. Extracts from various commentaries (chiefly those of ‘Othmân and  <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85027827/">‘Ainî</a>, besides those of Karmânî and Ḳasṭalânî, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fath_al-Bari">فتح الباری</a>) in different hands on the margin and between the lines. Cat. 223, i. 2.

Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 94] صحيح البخاري [part]

<ul> <li>Tradition.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 94 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. 121 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 121 B 94, 95. Size 111/2 in. by 8 in.; foll. 363. Twenty-one lines in a page. The first half of the Ṣaḥîḥ. With frequent marginal notes, taken from the commentaries. The various readings of the first editors of the work are added in the beginning portion. A list of the abbreviations used for their names is on the title-page. The first part has several defects, as may be seen from the original pagination. Plainly written in different hands. At the end the following note: این کتاب مبارک حضرت خان عالیشان حضرت احمد خان... بن خداوند عبدالله خان محض لله و فی الله نویسانیده اند و محض لله بخشش وهبت کرده اند برای حضر (sic) شیخ اسماعیل طالب العلم قادری فَمَنْ بَدَّلَهُ بَعْدَ مَا سَمِعَهُ فَأِنَّمَا أِثْمُهُ عَلَی اْلَّذِینَ یُبَدِّلُوْنَهُ أِنَّ اْللَهَ سَمِیعٌ عَلِیمٌ.1 Cat. p. 223, i. 3.   1 Sû. 2, 177.

Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 443] دلائل الخیرات

<ul> <li>Prayers and charms.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 443 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. 353 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/90/mode/2up">353</a>. B443. Size 41/4 in. By 3 in.; foll. 165. Seven lines in a page. 1. Foll. 1-102. Another copy of the <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/dalail-al-khayrat/oclc/945200713">دلائل الخیرات</a> [of <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n78093327/">Jazūlī</a>], imperfect at the beginning; the first words are: فی العلمین. Plainly written, with vowel-points. 2. Foll. 104-165. Another fragment of the <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/4750422">same work</a>, written in a similar style. Slightly injured.

Prayers and Charms [IO Ethe 351] دلائل الخیرات

<ul> <li>Prayers and charms.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Ethe 351 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. 351 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/90/mode/2up">351</a>. 4A. Size 7 in. by 41/2 in.; foll. 106. Eleven lines in a page. Another copy of the <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/dalail-al-khayrat/oclc/945200713">دلائل الخیرات</a>. Well written, with vowel-points. Richly illuminated and gilt. It contains two pictures, representing the Mosques of Makkah and Madînah. “Received from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle">Dr. Royle</a>, July, 1856.”

Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 436]

<ul> <li>Prayers and charms.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 436 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. 365 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 365. B 436. 51/2 in. by 31/2 in.; foll. 53. Nine lines in a page. هذا الحزاب (!) للسید الجلیل المولی العالم العلامة قدوة العارفین برهان السالکین الموید بتایید الرحمن سیدنا احمد بن عمر الهندوان الخ. Fragments of the Prayer-book of AḤMAD B. ‘OMAR AL-HINDUWÂN, who lived about the middle of the twelfth century.1 The book contains forms of prayer for the different times of the day, viz., morning, noon, afternoon, and evening. Begins: یسن و القران الحکیم الی آخر السورة. Plainly written, the first quire in a different hand from the rest. Defects after foll. 22 and 47. Inscribed اوراد سهروردی. Cf. Catal. 233 (Duawat), ii. 3.   1 See above, no. 169.

Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 430]

<ul> <li>Prayers and charms.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 430 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. 362 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 362. B 430. Size 7 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 104. Nine, afterwards six lines in a page. The Prayer-book of ‘ALÎ B. SULṬÂN MUḤAMMAD Ḳârî’ (d. A.H. 1016), called الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم. See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 56; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 148; and Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 53 sq. Written in a large plain hand, with vowel-points. A Persian translation is added between the lines, and prefixed (foll. 1-6) is an introduction in Persian, by one Aḥmad b. ‘Abd al-raḥmân, containing rules for forty days of devotion. Both were made for the use of one Shâh Hâshim, at Makkah. The introduction begins: حمد متوافر و ثناء متکاثر. The last two pages contain another prayer, دعاء استخارة کل یوم بعد الرکعتین. It begins: اللهم انی استخیرک The Arabic Text was collated subsequently by Muḥammad Ḥusain b. ‘Abdallah Multânî Makkî Ḳâdirî.

Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 432]

<ul> <li>Prayers and charms.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 432 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. 360 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 360. B 432. Size 83/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 202. Thirteen lines in a page. A fragment of a treatise on pious charms and remedies, arranged in 100 paragraphs (فائدة), and probably entitled کتاب مائة الفوائد. The author is not mentioned. He frequently quotes Bûnî (d. A.H. 622), the “Imâm” Aḥmad b. Mûsa عجیل, Majd al-dîn Shîrâzî (i.e. Fîrûzâbâdî, d. A.H. 817), and various old authorities. One of his Shaikhs was Sulaimân b. Ibrâhîm ‘Alawî. He also mentions (fol. 4) that he wrote at an earlier period a treatise with the title الطریقة الواضحة الی اسرار الفاتحة. This MS. is imperfect at the beginning. The first words are: تعالی ان لا یدانس اسمه, from the first فائدة, which treats of the magic powers of the Basmalah. The second فائدة (fol. 4) is inscribed: فی فضل سورة الفاتحة. The latter portion, from the sixty-second paragraph. Is wanting. Only the last fol. is preserved, which concludes as follows: تمت تمام شد فوائد القران. The last three pages contain an amulet for horses, with directions in Turkish. Cat. 233, v.

Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 439]

<ul> <li>Prayers and charms.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 439 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. 356 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 356. B439. Size 91/4 in. b 51/4 in.; foll. 32. Nineteen lines in a page. کتاب دفع العاهات فی الصلوة علی افضل المخلوقات تالیف الشیخ الامام العالم العلامة مولانا السید محمود القادری المدنی الشافعی حفظه الله آمین A fragment of a Book of Prayers for Muḥammad, consisting of extracts from Jazûlî’s دلائل الخیرات, with paraphrase and explanations, and a few original additions, so as to form a sort of commentary on that work. The author, Saiyid MAḤMÛD ḲÂDIRÎ, of Madînah, was still alive when this MS. was written, i.e. A.H. 1107 [= 1695-96 CE]. Beginning (fol. 1v.): فصل ثم ادرجْ فی قرّة عینیک بقیّة الادعیة المرغوبة و الصلوات المحمودة من الکتاب المشهور المسمّی بدلائل الخیرات The division of the دلائل الخیرات into quarters and thirds is also marked here. The first quarter ends on fol. 6. At the end, as additions by the author, are two prayers for Muḥammad, ascribed to Abu Bakr and ‘Alî, and after these a drawing of the three tombs in the Mosque of Madînah. The colophon offers a different title: اقول و قد تم بحمدالله و توفیقه الکتاب المسمّی بالنجاة من العاهات فی نحو کراسین ولکن بخط المؤلف حفظه الله تعالی و نفعنا بعلومه و برکاته و هذا کالشرح الاعظم عند العقلاء للاقوال و الادعیة التی اختلف [فیها]1 العلماء من کتاب دلائل الخیرات و خیر الکلام ما قلّ و دلّ العبد الفقیر تاج الدین المقدسی عفی الله عنه سنة ۱۱۰۷ Well written, with vowel-points, but injured and defective in several places. Leaves are wanting after foll. 3, 5, 28, 29, and 30. Cat. 233 (Duawat), iii. 1.   1 Effaced.

Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 433] *Prayers for the Prophet & his family

<ul> <li>Prayers and charms.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 433 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. 367 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 367. B 433. Size about 91/2 in. by about 6 in.; foll. 246. Nine lines in a page. A fragment of a large Collection of Prayers for Muḥammad and his family, the title and author of which are not ascertained. It is not the دلائل الخیرات, as is supposed in a recent inscription. It is divided into chapters and sections (فصل). Well written in a bold hand, with vowel-points. Rubrics omitted in the latter portion. Imperfect both at the beginning and end, and injured in several places. Cat. 234, ix. (?).