[IO Islamic 1165] Râḥat-alarwâh

Râḥat-alarwâh.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 651 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1165 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Râḥat-alarwâh ( راحت الأرواح ) .

The life, miracles, and maxims of the great Ṣûfic Shaikh ‘Azîz-allâh (born in Lâhûr, the 3rd of Jumâdâ II, A.H. 1047 = A.D. 1637, October 23, died 37 years, 4 months and 17 days old, the 20th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1084 = A.D. 1674, January 28), by Ḥâfiż Muḥammad Sa’îd bin Hâfiż (see fol. 2a, ll. 6 and 7; fol. 3a, line 4; and fol. 5a, line 4), who commenced the compilation of this work in the beginning of Rajab, A.H. 1084 (A.D. 1673, October 12), and finished it after some interval during prince Muḥammad Sulṭân’s campaign against Kâbul, A.H. 1085 = A.D. 1674, 1675 (comp. fol. 4a, ll . 3 and 4, and fol. 253b, ll . 4 and 5). It is divided into the following five babs:

1.در تاريخ ولادت و احوال ايّام طفوليّت و اخذ نعمت آنحضرت از اعزّۀ زمانه , on fol. 5b.

2.در معاش و لباس آنحضرت , on fol. 15a.

3.در اخلاق و شمائل و صرف اوقات و شمّۀ از رياضات آنحضرت , on fol. 20b.

4.در خوارق عادات آنحضرت , on fol. 52a.

5. در ملفوظات و تأريخ وفات آنحضرت , on fol . 133a.

Beginning: الحمد لله الذى ارسل عبده الذى هو عزيز الله الخ .

Dated the 11th of Jumâdâ I, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1696, December 6).

No. 1165, ff. 255, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/8 in. by 6 in.