[IO Islamic 698] Rauḍt-alsâlikîn
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<li><strong>Rauḍt-alsâlikîn</strong><strong>.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 698 in the India Office collections.</strong></li>
<li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 632 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li>
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<p>Rauḍt-alsâlikîn ( روضة السالكين ).</p>
<p>Biographies of prominent Ṣûfic Shaikhs of the Naḳshbandî order, principally of the great Shaikh Maulânâ ‘Alâ-aldîn alâbizhî ( الآبژی , so distinctly on fol. 31<sup>b</sup> ,last line ,and fol. 170<sup>b</sup> , l.5 ; in the immediately following first copy of the Rashaḥât, No. 705, the word is spelt, on fol. 152<sup>b</sup> first line, الآبيزى alâbîzî, with the distinct marginal gloss: آبيز بالف ممدودة و كسرباء موحّده و ياء تحتانيّة و حرف زاى whereas in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 563, it appears as آبسير Âbsîr ; in all the three different forms of spelling it is the name of a village in Ḳûhistân) alḳûhistânî, compiled by ‘Alî bin Maḥmûd alabîwardî alkûrânî ( الكورانى), and beginning :</p>
<p>آنجا كه كمال كبرياى تو بود</p>
<p>عالم نم از بحر عطاى تو بود</p>
<p>مارا چه حمد و ثناى تو بود</p>
<p>هم حمد و ثناى تو سزاى تو بود</p>
<p>قال الفقير الى رحمة الله الغنى على بن محمود الخ.</p>
<p>The ten introductory biographies, which precede that of the principal hero of this- hitherto unknown- work (no further copies of which are mentioned anywhere), and which are merely copied from the Nafaḥât-aluns, are:</p>
<p>1.Khwâjah ‘Abd-alkhâliḳ Ghujdawânî ( غجدوانى ), died A.H. 575 (A.D. 1179 , 1180), on fol. 2<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>2.Khwâjah Muḥammad Bâbâ-i-Samâsî ( سماسى ), one of the spiritual successors of the preceding Shaikh, on fol. 4<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>3. Sayyid amîr Kulâl, spiritual successor of the preceding Shaikh, died A.H.772 (A.D.1370), on fol.5<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>4.Khwâjah Bahâ-aldîn Naḳshband, with his real name : Muḥammad bin Muḥammad albukhârî, died the third of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 791 (A.D. 1389, March 2 )on fol. 6<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>5.Khwâjah ‘Alâ-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr , friend and pupil of Bahâ-aldîn, died the 20th of Rajab, A.H.802 (A.D. 1400, March 17) , on fol. 10<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>6.Khawâjah Muḥammad Pârsâ, likewise friend and pupil of Bahâ-aldîn died end of A.H. 822 (A.D. 1420, January), on fol. 13<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>7.Maulânâ Niżâm-aldîn Khâmûsh, friend and pupil of ‘Alâ-aldîn (No.5) on fol. 17<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>8.Khawâjah ‘Abdallâh Imâmî Iṣfahânî, likewise a pupil of ‘Alâ-aldîn , on fol. 19<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>9. Maulânâ Sa’d-aldîn alkâshgharî, friend and pupil of Niżâm-aldîn (No.7), died the 7th of Jumâdâ-alâkhar, A.H. 860 (A.D. 1456, May 13), on fol. 20<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>10.Khawâjah ‘Ubaid-allâh , died A.H. 895 (1490), on fol. 29<sup>b</sup> (see his full biography in the immediately following work, the Rashaḥât).</p>
<p>On fol. 31<sup>b</sup>, the detailed history of the life and wonderful deeds of the principal subject of this work follows, Maulânâ ‘Alâ-aldîn alâbizhî alḳûhistânî, with his real name, Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Mu’min, who died A.H. 892, in the month Jumâdâ-alawwal (A.D. 1487, April-May); see fol. 170<sup>b</sup>. Ta’rîkh of his death : رفت پیر . He was the pupil of Sa’d-aldîn Kâshgharî (No.9).</p>
<p>A concluding chapter on the pre-eminence of the Naḳshbandî order over the other Ṭarîḳas and Silsilas ( در بيان فضيلت اين سلسلۀ شريفه بر سائر طرق و سلاسل ) begins on fol. 170<sup>b</sup>, but is incomplete at the end. It breaks off on fol. 174<sup>b</sup>. so that both date of completion and date of transcription are missing. Many pages injured. Numerous marginal additions. Fol. 52 Must be inserted between ff. 46 and 47.</p>
<p>No. 698, ff. 174, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>9/8</sup> in.</p>
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