Miscellanies [IO Islamic 2502]
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<li><strong>Miscellanies.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2502 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li>
<li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 1034 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li>
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<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/288/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>1034</strong></a>.</p>
<p>2502. Size 8<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 6 in.; foll. 389. From thirteen to nineteen lines in a page.</p>
<p>I.Foll. 1-10. کتاب الذبح و الاصطیاد المنتخب من کتب الشیخین و وجوه المتاخرین اهل التحقیق و الاجتهاد.</p>
<p>A treatise on Butchering and hunting, according to the Shâfi’ite rite; probably by <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80081636.html">SUYÛṬÎ </a>(d. A.H. 911).</p>
<p>Begins: الحمدلله الّذی احلّ لنا الطیّبات مصطادة و ذبیحة.</p>
<p>This treatise was partly compiled from the works of the “two Shaikhs” (Ghazzâlî and Râfi’î?), and of later authorities, such as Nawawî; but most of its materials were taken directly from the تحفة المنهاج (of Sirâj al-dîn ‘Omar b. al-Mulaḳḳin, d. A.H. 884).<sup>1</sup></p>
<p>II.Foll. 11-18. An episode from the legendary history of Muḥammad. The hero of it is Sham’ûn b. Khâlid.</p>
<p>Imperfect at the beginning. The first words are: اخرجنا عنا العطش و الجوع.</p>
<p>Dated 12<sup>th</sup> Jumâda I., 1214.</p>
<p>III.Foll. 19-34. A legendary account of Muḥammad’s expeditions to the Syrian frontier, and particularly of the expedition to Tabûk; imperfect at the end.</p>
<p>The narrative, though rather fabulous, begins with quoting old authorities, as follows: و بعد الحمدلة و التصلیة قال علماء السیر فی اخبارهم منهم محمد بن اسحق و عمّار بن زید المدنی و غیرهما کلهم یرفعون الحدیث الی عبدالله بن مسعود الخ.</p>
<p>IV.Foll. 35-224. کتاب شرح الصدور بشرح حال الموتی و القبور.</p>
<p>An account of the state of the soul between death and the resurrection, drawn from the Traditions, and arranged in chapters, by <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80081636.html">SUYÛṬÎ</a>. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 39.</p>
<p>Incomplete at the end. Defects after foll. 134 and 177.</p>
<p>V.Foll. 225-337. کتاب الانوار انوار النبی المختار.</p>
<p>A legendary history of the birth and early life of Muḥammad, concluding with his marriage with Khadîjah (a so-called <em>Maulid</em>), by ABU’L-ḤASAN BAKRÎ. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 483, who gives the work a somewhat different title.</p>
<p>It is imperfect at the commencement, but apparently only a little is wanting. Begins: من ذلک و سارت الیه الرکبان و قبائل العربان من کل جانب و مکان.</p>
<p>One leaf is missing before fol. 247; the contents of it are, however, supplied on the margin of that folio.</p>
<p>VI.Foll. 338-389. Some other episodes of the life of Muḥammad, narrated in a legendary or rather romantic style:- his marriage with ‘Â’ishah, the wedding of ‘Alî and Fâṭimah, etc. They are introduced and followed by a chronological survey of the events of the first eleven years of the Hijrah; and the whole concludes with an account of the death of the Prophet, which, however, ends abruptly on the next fol.</p>
<p>Begins: ذکر بعض الامور المشهورة بعد الهجرة علی ترتیب السنین.</p>
<p>Written in various inelegant hands, apparently in Malabar.<sup>1</sup></p>
<p>[Bibl. Leydeniana.]</p>
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<p><sup>1</sup> Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 205.</p>
<p><sup>1</sup> A note in Malayalam is on the fly-leaf.</p>
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