[IO Islamic 1299] تذكرة الاوليا

Tadhkirat-alauliyâ.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1051 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 1299 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1051

Tadhkirat-alauliyâ (تذكرة الاوليا).

The fullest copy extant of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr’s famous biographies of eminent Ṣûfic Shaikhs, containing both the first and the second part of the work (جلد اوّل and جلد دوم); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 622, 1 and 2, No. 624, 1 and 2, and No. 625, 9 and 10; Rieu i. p. 344; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 548-551; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Batav. iii. p. 17 (where a list of the seventy-two Shaikhs of the first part is given); Rehatsek, Catalogue raisonné, p. 190, No. 28; Ḥ. Khalfa ii. p. 258, and Mélanges Asiatiques v. p. 251. Abridgments of the same work have been noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 551 (by ‘Abd-alwâḥid Balgrâmî), and in A. F. Mehren, p. 8; a poetical version by ‘Allâf or Ḥâfiż-i-’Allâf, composed A.H. 821 (A.D. 1418), has been described in detail in Rosen, Persian MSS., pp. 210-215. The text of the تذكرة الاوليا has been lithographed in Lahore, 1889 and 1891. On some extracts in German translation, comp. W. Pertsch, loc. cit.

The first part (on ff. 1-279) comprises; after the introduction and the index (on fol. 5), the following seventy-two Shaikhs, to whose biographies there is sometimes added on the margin by another hand the date of death (which, however, is in many cases wrong, or at least doubtful): 1. Ja’far Ṣâdiḳ, on fol. 5b. 2. Uwais Ḳarnî, on fol. 9a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 30=A.D. 650, 651, see the more correct date or dates in Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 18). 3.Ḥasan Baṣrî, on fol. 14a (his death fixed here in A.H. 140=A.D. 757, 758, see the correct date A.H. 110=A.D. 728, 729, Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 19). 4. Mâlik-i-Dînâr, on fol. 23b (his death fixed here in A.H. 150=A.D. 767; correct date A.H. 137=A.D. 754, 755, Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 160). 5. Muḥammad Wâsi’, on fol. 27b (died A.H. 160=A.D. 776, 777). 6.Ḥabîb-i-’Ajamî, on fol. 28a (his death fixed here in A.H. 125=A.D. 743; correct date A.H. 156 =A.D. 773, Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 161). 7.Abû Ḥâzim (here جازم as it seems) Makkî, on fol. 31b (his death fixed in A.H. 150=A.D. 767). 8.’Atabah bin Ghulâm, on fol. 32a (his death fixed in the same year, correct date A.H. 160 or 167=A.D. 776, 777 or 783, 784, Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 164). 9. Râbi’a-i-’adawiyyah, on fol.33a. 10. Shaikh Fuḍail bin ‘Iyâd, on fol. 42a (died A.H. 187=A.D. 803). 11. Ibrâhîm Adham, on fol. 48b (his death fixed here in A.H. 200=A.D. 815, 816; more correct dates are A.H. 162, 161, or 160 =A.D. 778, 779, or 776, 777, Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 97). 12.Bashar Ḥâfî, on fol. 58b (died A.H. 227=A.D. 841). 13. Dhû-alnûn Miṣrî, on fol. 63a (died A.H. 245=A.D. 859, 860). 14.Bâyazîd Bisṭâmî, on fol. 74a (died A.H. 261=A.D. 875). 15.’Abd-allâh Mubârak, on fol. 99a (in Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 165, bin Mubârak; instead of the more correct date of his death, viz. A.H. 181=A.D. 797, 798, there appears here A.H. 200=A.D. 815, 816). 16. Sufyân Thaurî, on fol. 104b (his death is fixed here in A.H. 205=A.D. 820, 821; the usual dates are A.H. 161 or 162=A.D. 778, 779, see Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 162). 17. Shaḳîḳ Balkhî, on fol.109a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 225=A.D. 840; the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 167, gives A.H. 194=A.D. 809, 810). 18. Imâm Abû Ḥanîfah Kûfî, on fol. 112b (for whose death the preposterous date A.H.205 is given, see the correct statement in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 21).

19. Imâm Shâfi’î, on fol. 116b (his death is fixed here in A.H. 209 = A.D. 824, 825, instead of the usual date 204, Rajab=A.D. 820, January, see Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 23). 20. Imâm Aḥmad Ḥanbal, on fol. 119b (died according to the statement here A.H. 250=A.D. 864, according to the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 24, A.H. 241=A.D. 855). 21. Dâ’ûd Ṭâ’î, on fol. 123a (the date of his death, as given here, viz, A.H. 200, is wrong; it was A.H. 162 or 165=A.D. 778, 779, or 781, 782, see Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 163). 22. Ḥârith Muḥâsabî, on fol. 126a (died A.H. 243=A.D. 857, 858). 23. Abû Sulaimân Dârânî, on fol. 128b. 24. Muḥammad Simâḳ, on fol. 133a. 25. Muḥammad bin Aslam al-Ṭûsî, on fol. 133b. 26. Aḥmad bin Ḥarb, on fol. 135a. 27. Ḥâtim-i-aṣamm, on fol. 137a. 28. Suhail bin ‘Abdallâh, on fol. 142a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 273=A.D. 886, 887, whereas the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 193, where Sahl is read instead of Suhail, just as in Rosen’s poetical version, quoted above, gives A.H. 283=A.D. 896). 29. Ma’rûf Karkhî, on fol. 152a (died A.H. 200=A.D. 815). 30. Shaikh Sarî Saḳaṭî, on fol. 155a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 257=A.D. 871; the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 28, gives A.H. 253, and in one copy 250=A.D. 867 or 864). 31. Fatḥ Mauṣilî, on fol. 161a. 32. Aḥmad alḥawârî (الحوارى so to be read instead of جوارى in the text; the date of death, A.H. 203, is evidently a mere mistake for 230=A.D. 844, 845, see Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 172, where, however, the Shaikh is distinctly called Aḥmad bin Abî-alḥawâri), on fol. 162a. 33.Aḥmad Khiḍrawaih, or rather bin Khiḍrawaih Balkhî, on fol. 163a (died A.H. 240=A.D. 854, 855). 34. Abû Turâb Nakhshabî, on fol. 167a (died A.H. 245=A.D. 859). 35. Yaḥyâ bin Ma’âdh Râzî, on fol. 169b (died A.H. 258=A.D. 872). 36. Shâh Shujâ’ Kirmânî, on fol. 177b (his death is fixed here in A.H. 295=A.D. 907, 908, comp. the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 187). 37.Yûsuf bin al-Ḥusain, on fol. 179b (died A.H. 304=A.D. 916, 917). 38. Abû Ḥafṣ Ḥaddâd, on fol. 183b. 39. Ḥamdûn Ḳaṣṣâr, on fol. 189a. 40. Manṣûr ‘Ammâr, on fol. 190b. 41. Aḥmad bin ‘Âṣim al-antâkî, on fol. 192b (his death is fixed here in A.H. 240=A.D. 854, 855). 42. ’Abdallâh bin Ḥaḳîḳ, on fol. 194a. 43. Shaikh Junaid Baghdâdî, on fol. 195a (died A.H. 297=A.D. 910). 44. ’Amr bin ‘Uthmân Makkî, on fol. 214a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 271=A.D. 884, 885; the usual date is A.H. 296 or 297=A.D. 908-910, see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 202). 45. Abû Sa’îd Kharrâz (Rosen: Khazzâz), on fol. 215b (died according to this copy A.H. 277=A.D. 890, 891; the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 194, fixed his death in A.H. 286, 285 or 287=A.D. 898-900). 46. Abû-alḥusain Nûrî, on fol. 219a (died A.H. 297=A.D. 909, 910, as is stated here, or A.H. 295=A.D. 907, 908, according to the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 201). 47.Abû ‘Uthmân Ḥîrî, on fol. 225a (died A.H. 298=A.D. 910). 48. Abû Muḥammad Ruwaim, on fol. 230a (died A.H. 303 =A.D. 915, 916).49. Ibn ‘Aṭâ, on fol. 231b (i.e. Abû-al’abbâs bin ‘Aṭâ, who died, according to the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 212, A.H. 309=A.D. 922; here his death is fixed in A.H. 307=A.D. 919, 920). 50. Abû ‘Abdallâh bin al-Jallâ, on fol. 236b (with the silly date of A.H. 205 or 250 for his death; he died A.H. 306=A.D. 918, 919, see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 210). 51. Ibrâhîm bin Dâ’ûd Raḳḳî, on fol. 237a (died A.H. 327=A.D. 938, 939; the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 224, gives A.H. 326). 52.Yûsuf-i-Asbâṭ, on fol. 237b. 53. Abû Isḥaḳ (correctly, according to the following copy and the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 228, Abû Ya’ḳûb Isḥaḳ) Nahrajûrî, on fol. 239a (died A.H. 330=A.D. 941, 942).

54. Samnûn Muḥibb (or bin Muḥibb), on fol. 241a (the correct date of his death is A.H. 298=A.D. 910, 911; see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 204; here he is wrongly stated to have died A.H. 270). 55. Abû Muḥammad Murta’ish, on fol. 242b (died A.H. 328=A.D. 939, 940).56. Abû ‘Abdallâh Muḥammad bin Faḍl, on fol. 244a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 309=A.D. 921, 922; more correctly in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 217, in A.H. 319=A.D. 931). 57.Abû-alḥusain Fûshanji, on fol. 245a. 58. Muḥammad bin ‘Alî alḥakîm altirmidhi, on fol. 246a (he died, according to the statement here, A.H. 260=A.D. 873, 874; according to the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 182, A.H. 255=A.D. 869). 59. Abûbakr Warrâḳ, on fol. 251a. 60. ’Abdallâh Manâzil, on fol. 253b (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 231, where his death is fixed in A.H. 331=A.D. 942, 943; here he is stated to have died A.H. 330). 61. ‘Alî bin Sahl Iṣfahânî, on fol. 255a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 270=A.D. 883, 884). 62. Khair-i-nassâj, on fol. 256a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 305=A.D. 917, 918; the correct date is that given in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 221, viz. A.H. 322=A.D. 934). 63. Abû-alkhair Aḳṭa’, on fol. 257a (died, according to the statement here, A.H. 340=A.D. 951, 952; according to the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 241, A.H. 343=A.D. 954, 955). 64. Abû Ḥamzah Khurâsâni, on fol. 258a (died A.H. 290=A.D. 903). 65. Shaikh-alshuyûkh Aḥmad Masrûḳ (bin Muḥammad bin Masrûḳ in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 206), on fol. 259a (died A.H. 300=A.D. 912, 913, or A.H. 299, as the Safînah states). 66. ‘Abdallâh Raughadî (روغدى, as in Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 215; in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 548-550, he is always called Rau’adî, روعدى), on fol. 260a (his death is fixed in A.H. 290=A.D. 903). 67. ’Abdallâh Maghribî (in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 191, Abû ‘Abd-allâh Maghribî), on fol. 261a (his death is fixed here in A.H. 299=A.D. 911, 912; The Safînah gives A.H. 279=A.D. 892, 893). 68. Abû ‘Alî Jurjânî, on fol. 262a. 69. Abûbakr Kattânî (so here كتّانى, comp. the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 223), on fol. 263a (died A.H. 322=A.D. 934). 70. Shaikh-i-Kabîr Abû ‘Abdallâh (Muḥammad) Khalîf (or bin Khafîf, as the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 144, reads), on fol. 266b (died A.H. 371=A.D. 981, 982). 71. Abû Muḥammad Jurairî, on fol. 271a (died A.H. 311 =A.D. 923, 924, or, as the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 215, states, A.H. 312). 72. Ḥusain bin Manṣûr Ḥallâj, on fol. 272b (the wrong date of A.H. 280 is given here for his death; the correct one is A.H. 309=A.D. 922, see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 211).

This first part concludes on fol. 279b, and is followed, after a shot remark: چون کاتب در نوشتن احوال عزیزان خود را معاف داشته و کاهلی ورزیده ذکر چند اسامی را نکرده و از قلم انداخته بنابر آن در آخر کتاب احوال و خوارق چند از عزیزان نوشته شد اگرچه احوال اينها در اوسط كتاب بود, by a second part or sort of appendix, containing twenty-five additional biographies, viz.: 73.Abû-alḥasan Kharaḳânî, on fol. 280a. 74. Mamshâd or Mimshâd Dînawarî, on fol. 283b. 75.Ibrâhîm Khawwâṣ, on fol. 284b. 76. Abûbakr Shiblî, on fol. 287a. 77. Abû Sa’îd bin Abû-alkhair, on fol. 290b. 78. Abû-al’abbâs Ḳaṣṣâb, on fol. 295a. 79. Abû ‘Alî Daḳḳâḳ, on fol. 296a. 80. Abû Naṣr Sarrâj, on fol. 299b. 81. Abû-alfaḍl Ḥasan, on fol. 300a. 82. Abû-alḳâsim Naṣrâbâdî, on fol. 300b. 83. Abû Ḥamzah Baghdâdî, on fol. 302a. 84. Abûbakr Ṭamistânî, on fol. 303a. 85. Ibrâhîm Shaibânî, on fol. 303b. 86. Abû ‘Amr (so here, عمرو; in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 550, l. 14, Abû ‘Umar) Najid, on fol. 304b. 87.Abû-alḥusain (in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 229, and in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 549, l. 4 ab infra, Abû-alḥasan) ‘Alî alṣâ’igh, on fol. 305a. 88. Abûbakr Wâsiṭî, on fol. 305b. 89. Abû Ja’far Khuldî, on fol. 308b. 90. Abû ‘Alî Rûdbârî, on fol. 309a. 91. Abû-alḥusain Ḥaṣîrî (حصيرى, in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 266, Ḥaṣrî حصرى ; in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 549, l. 3 ab infra, and p. 550, l. 16, Khaḍirî خضرى), on fol. 310a. 92. Abû Isḥaḳ Shahriyârî Kâzarûnî, on fol. 311a. 93. Abu-al’abbâs Sayyârî, on fol. 311b. 94. Abû-al’abbâs Nahâwandî, on fol. 312a. 95. Abû ‘Alî Thaḳafî, on fol. 312b. 96. Abûbakr Ṣaidalânî, on fol. 313b. 97. Imâm Muḥammad Bâḳir, on fol. 313b.

Beginning of the whole work: الحمد لله الجواد بأفضل انواع النعماء المنّان باشرف اصناف العطاء الخ .

Dated the 25th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1091 (A.D. 1680, July 23). Fol. 313 badly injured. Many annotations and additions on the margin, by the same hand, as it seems, which copied the appendix.

No. 1299, ff. 314, ll. 17-27; Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 37-46 and 280-314 (the whole of the appendix or second part) supplied by other hands, the latter part in a sort of Shikasta; size, 101/8 in. by 53/4 in.