Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 1662]

Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1662 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 138 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 138. 1662. Size 113/4 in. by 71/4 in.; foll. 18. Nine lines in a page. مائة کلمة علّیة عالیة مرتضویّة The celebrated Hundred Sayings of ‘Alî, with a paraphrase in Persian ḍistichs. See on the editions of the former, Cat. Mus. Brit. p. 511. Beginning: بهترین هر کلام ای نور جشم مردمان هست نام خالق بسیار بخش مهربان .قال علی علیه الصلوة و السلم A splendid copy on tinted paper, sprinkled with gold. The words of ‘Alî written in the Thulth character, alternately in gold and blue, with all the vowel-points, the Persian paraphrase in Nasta’liḳ. With gold and coloured borders; the first and final pages richly illuminated and gilt. Concluding: اللهم اغفر رمزات الالحاظ و سقطات الالفاظ و هفوات اللسان و شهوات الجنان. یا آلهی بی رضایت گر زبان و چشم و دل زشت گوید یا به بیند یا رود جائی مهل. Seals of ‘Abd al-wahhâb Khân, a servant (فدوی) of Muḥammad Shâh, A. H. 1157, and ‘Abd al-razzâḳ Khân, A. H. 1187, on the title-page. The following is written, in large Nasta’liḳ, on a vacant page near the end: بموجب نویسانیده غلام محمد خان نوابصاحب قبله شهید نواب انور الدینخان جنت سریر رحمة الله علیه بن حاجی محمد انور بن شیخ نعم (نعمت.r) الله بن شیخ عبدالحی بن شیخ عبدالقادر بن قاضی.., and below it is added a list of the descendants of the aforesaid Ni’mat-allah, followed by the pedigree of the above Ghulâm Muḥammad Khân, both written in Shikastah. Cf. Stewart’s Cat. p. 80. [Tippu.]