Biography and History [IO Bijapur 83] لواقح الانوار فى طبقات السادة الاخيار

Biography and History. 

This manuscript is now IO Islamic B83 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 713 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

713.

B 83. Size 101/4 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 300. Seventeen lines in a page.

The second part of الطبقات (i.e. طبقات الاولياء , properly entitled لواقح الانوار فى طبقات السادة الاخيار ) , by (Abu’l-mawâhib) ‘Abd al-wahhâb b. Aḥmad b. ‘Alî SHA’RÂWÎ1 Anṣârî (d. A.H. 973), who completed his work on 15th Rajab , 952 [=5 February 1566], at Cairo. See Ḥ. Ḳh. v. 339 sqq. ; Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. morgenl. Ges. xxi. 273; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 184; Cat. Mus. Brit. 179. This part begins with Abu’l-‘Abbâs Aḥmad Badawî (sixth century).

The last name is that of ‘Alî العياشى (tenth century).

To these طبقات the author added a list of Shaikhs of his own (the Shâfi’ite) sect, each of whom he characterizes in a few words. This list is confined to the less known names, as is stated at the end:

فكل هؤلاء علماء عاملين (sic) غير مشهورين بالعبادة و الزهد و الورع فذكرناهم لننبه على فضلهم رجاء الخير و الترحم عليهم و الاقتداء بهم واما من اشتهر بالعبادة و الزهد و الورع كالشيخ ابى اسحق الشيرازى و الامام الغزالى و الامام الرافعى و الامام النووى فاكتفينا بشهرتهم.

The original of this MS. was finished by ‘Alî Ḥamawî, a disciple of Sha’râwî, on 26th Sha’bân, 954. The present copy is dated Sunday, 17th Rabî’ II., 1109.

The first portion of it is written in a plain Naskh, and the rest in Nasta’liḳ.

On the first two pages are some extract from the طبقات الفقهاء الشافعيين of Tâj al-dîn Subkî.

The last leaves are injured.

Cat. 231, iv.

1 This form of the name is now usual (instead of Sha’rânî) ; see Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. morgenl. Ges. xx. 25; cf. no. 679. [ed note: the same has largely reverted in name authority files]

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