Miscellanies [IO Bijapur 74]

Miscellanies.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 74 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1035 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1035.

B74. Size 101/4 in. by 7 in.; foll. 56. Twenty-three lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-3. رسالة فی ابوی النبی. A short treatise in answer to the question, whether the parents of Muḥammad died as unbelievers; by Shams al-dîn Aḥmad b. Sulaimân b. Kamâl, commonly called IBN KAMÂLPÂSHÂ, or Kamâlpâshâzâdah (d. A.H. 941). See Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 381, no. 4.

Dated Sunday, 4th Jumâda I., 947.

II.Foll. 4-27r. مسالک الحنفاء فی الکلام علی ابوی المصطفی.

A more exhaustive treatise on the subject, by Jalâl al-dîn ‘Abd al-raḥmân SUYÛṬÎ (d. A.H. 911). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 507.

Begins, without a preface: مسألة الحکم فی ابوی النبی صلعم انهما ناجیان و لیسا فی النار صرح بذلک جمع من العلماء و لهم فی تقریر ذلک مسالک المسلک الاول انهما ماتا قبل البعثة الخ.

The question is answered in three different ways (مسلک), after which follows a خاتمة.

Dated Monday, 17th Rabî’ II., 974.

III.Foll. 27v.-30. A tract on the blessings of reciting the Basmalah; various questions and riddles, followed by their solutions; and some stories relating to worship and private life.

Dated Tuesday, 29th Rabî’ II., 974.

IV.Foll. 31-46. کتاب الهیئة السَنیّة فی الهیئة السُنّیّة.

The Universe as conceived in the Traditions, by Jalâl al-dîn SUYÛṬÎ. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 506. Extracts from this treatise are to be found in Aumer, Hdss. Münch., no. 133.

It is divided into thirteen sections as follows:- fol. 31v. العرش و الکرسیّ; fol. 33v. اللوح و القلم; fol. 34.السموات و الارضون; fol. 37. الشمس و القمر و النجوم ; fol. 40.اللیل و النهار و الساعات ; fol. 40v. الماء و الریاح ; fol. 42. السحاب و المطر ; fol. 43v. الرعد و البرق و الصواعق ; fol. 44. المجرة و القوس ; fol. 45. الزلزلة ; fol. ib. v. الجبال ; fol. ib. البحار ; fol. 46. النیل.

Dated Tuesday, 15th Rabî’ II., 974.

The last three pieces are written by one hand. The name of the copyist, ‘Abd al-jalîl, is to be found at the end of no. II. (fol. 27r.)

V.and VI.Foll. 47-49 and 50-51. Two short chronological sketches of the history of Musalman Egypt, with lists of all the governors and Sultans, as far as Maḥmûd Pâshâ (A.H. 963), under whom the first tract was written. Both are continued, by other hands, down to Sinân Pâshâ (A.H. 976). The first begins: مقدمة فی تاریخ مصر فتحت مصر عام عشرین; and the second commences: هذه نبذة متضمنة ولایة مصر من دولة السادة الصحابة والی (!) الان الخ.

VII.Foll. 52-56. Definitions of various legal terms.

Begins: الحمدلله ....بیان الحد الحد هو المنع لغة الخ.

Well written.

Library of ‘Âlamgîr, A.H. 1079.