Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 2060]

Tradition.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2060 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 189 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

189.

2060. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 367. Nineteen lines in a page.

کتاب روضة الابرار فی سیر النبی المختار

A compendious work (مختصر) on the life and the excellency of the Prophet, by ‘ABDALLAH B. KHIḌR B. ABU’L-MAFÂKHIR TAMÎMÎ. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 31, cix.

The author says in the preface that his work is an abridgement of the مولد المصطفی, a work written in Persian, by (Sa’îd al-dîn) Muḥammad b. Mas’ûd Kâzarûnî (d. A. H. 758),2 to which he added extracts from the معالم التنزیل of Muḥyi al-sunnah (Baghawî), from the کتاب السیر by Ḳiwâm al-sunnah Abu’l- Ḳâsim Ismâ’îl (b.) Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl Iṣfahânî (d. A. H. 535),3 and also from Ibn Ḳutaibah’s (d. A. H. 276) کتاب المعارف and ‘Iyâḍ’s الشفاء. The arrangement he adopted unaltered from Kâzarûnî’s work. The first part (قسم) contains seven4 chapters, the second and the third eight,5 and the fourth eleven chapters, each of the latter comprising one of the years of the Hijrah. The appendix (خاتمة الکتاب, fol. 288) treats of various more dogmatic questions, in seven chapters, I. فی ثناء الله تعالی علیه الخ; II. فی جامع اوصافه الخ, etc. To this is added another appendix (fol. 363, after the original conclusion) in three sections, on which the author speaks as follows: یشتمل علی ذکر من رای النبیّ فی المنام و آداب من ارَاد زیارته و ذکر اهل بیت رسول الله و الصحابة علی طریق الاجمال الخ.

Plainly written. The name of the transcriber and the date are found in a note on the title-page, which runs as follows: اما بعد فقد حصّل هذا الکتاب المکرم المعظم لنفسه افقر العباد و احوجهم الیه (sic) عوض بن السید شیخ بن طه (؟) بن عوضه (sic) با عقیل السقاف عامله الله و والدیه و جمیع المسلمین بالطافه .... وکان الفراغ من تحصیله یوم الاحد٢١ فی صفر الخیر سنة ١١٢۸ من الهجرة الخ.

The end is wanting. Fol. 240 should be placed after 242, and fol. 247 after 244.

[College of Fort William, (1809) 1825.]

2 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 167, where it is called المنتقی فی سیر النبی المصطفی.

3 Perhaps the same as the دلائل النبوة mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. iii. 237.

4 Instead of eight, as stated in Ḥ. Kh.

5 Instead of nine, as Ḥ. Kh. has.