Miscellanies [IO Islamic 2483] Anthology of texts in Arabic and Persian

Miscellanies.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2483 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1045 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1045.

2483. Size 91/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 366. Number of lines varying.

Several MSS. bound together.

I. Fol.2. The ninety-nine names of God.

II. Foll. 2v.-10. A description of the personal appearance of the Prophet, attributed to ‘Alî (see no. 377, i.).

Well written, with vowel-points.

III. Foll.11-13. A treatise on Weights and Measures. Begins:

الحمدلله حق حمده ...و بعد فهذه رسالة فی معرفة الصاع و المدّ و الرطل و الاستار و الدرهم و الدینار الخ

IV. Foll.13v.-19. Various extracts bearing on ritual and legal questions.

Begins:

امّا فی المحیط و الظهیرة (؟الظهیریة .r) فی کتاب الایمان رجل حلف لیصلی هذا الیوم خمس صلوات الخ

The two latter pieces are written in Nasta’lîḳ, diagonally.

V. Foll.19v.-43. Various extracts in Arabic and Persian, such as prayers, charms, legal questions, etc. Irregularly written in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikastah.

VI. Foll.43v.-148. A Commentary (ممزوج) on Sirâj al-dîn Sajâwandî’s treatise on the Law of Inheritance, by SAIYID SHARÎF JURJÂNÎ. See no. 239.

The date of the composition, as given at the end of this MS., viz. end of Dhû-alḥijjah, 811, does not agree with the statement of Ḥ. Kh. iv. 401.

Begins:

قال الشیخ الامام سراج الملة و الدین...بعد ما تیمن بالبسملة الحمد لله الخ

Numerous glosses. Closely written in Nasta’lîḳ. The copyist calls himself Saiyid Shîr Muḥammad b. Saiyid Ibrâhîm Ḥusainî, a “servant” (خادم) of Shâh Jalâl Bukhârî. He completed this copy on 3rd Jum. I., A. 30 Julûs. The corresponding year of the Hijrah is omitted.

VII. Foll. 149-211. A work on various parts of Ḥanafite Law, entitled دستور القضاة. It was compiled by Ṣadr b. Rashîd b. Ṣadr Tabrîzî, commonly called ḲÂḌÎ KHWÂJAH.

Begins:

الحمدلله الذی اعاننی علی جمع هذه المسائل.

It is divided into twenty-two chapters, a list of which is inserted after the preface. They are as follows:

1.الطهارة; 2. الصلوة; 3. الصوم; 4. النکاح; 5. الطلاق; 6. العتاق; 7. البیع; 8. القضایا; 9. الدعوی; 10. الاجارة; 11. الشهادة; 12. الکفالة; 13. الوکالة; 14. الشرکة; 15. ما یصیر الکافر به مسلما; 16. ما یصیر المسلم به کافرا; 17. الحرب; 18. القصاص و التضمین; 19. الزیارة; 20. السماع; 21. الصید; 22. المتفرقات.

Inelegantly written in Nasta’lîḳ.

VIII. Foll. 213-230. A Persian treatise on the Muḥammadan Faith, by SAIYID SHARÎF JURJÂNÎ; followed by various extracts in Arabic and Persian.

IX. Foll. 233-252.1 A Persian Commentary on a Ḳaṣîdah in l, لامیة, in praise of ‘Alî. The author of both is ABU’L-MA’ÂLI Muḥammad, commonly called ‘Alî b. Abu Ṭâlib (!), b. ‘Abdallah b. ‘Alî Zâhidî Jîlânî.

The preface begins: لسان حال و ترجمان مقال

The Ḳaṣîdah commences as follows:

یا حادی الوُرْک عُجْ بالقرب من طَلَلِ

The commentary consists of short explanations of the words (اللغة) in Arabic, and a general interpretation in Persian (الترجمة).

Well written in Nasta’lîḳ.

X. Foll. 254-366.1 The Dîwân of MUTANABBÎ (see no. 807), arranged chronologically.

Neatly written in Nasta’lîḳ, often diagonally.

The beginning and end missing.

Begins:

وقال ایضا

محبّی قیامی ما لذالکم النصل

Worm-eaten.

The remainder of the volume is in Persian.

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]

1 Originally a separate volume.