Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 115] کتاب الاذكار [with a Persian tract on خل]

Prayers and Charms.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 115 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 340 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

340.

B 115. Size 9 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 241. Nineteen lines in a page.

هذا کتاب حلیة الابرار و شعار الاخیار فی تلخیص الدعوات و الاذکار المستحبّة فی اللیل و النهار مما صنفه الشیخ الامام احد عساکر الاسلام محیی السنّة قامع البدعة ابو زکریاء یحیی النووی قدس سرّه و رضی عنه.

Prayers for all occasions of Muslim life, collected from the tradition by Muḥyi al-dîn Nawawî (d. A.H. 676). The work is often called کتاب الاذكار. See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 109, and Wüstenfeld, das Leben des al-Nawawi, p. 48.

Beginning:

 الحمدلله الواحد القهّار، العزیز الغفّار، مقدِّر الاقدار.... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظیم العزیز الحکیم فَاْذْکُرُونِی أَذْکُرْکُمْ الخ

The author confines himself chiefly to traditions from the five canonical collections of Bukhârî, Muslim, Abu Dâ’ûd, Tirmidhî, and Nasâ’î. He generally omits the Isnâds. The work begins with a succession of introductory paragraphs (فصل).

The date of the work is given at the end as follows:

قال مصنفه الشیخ العالم الامام الحافظ المتقن المحقق محیی الدین ابو زکریاء النووی یحی بن شرف بن مرّی (sic) عفا الله عنه فرغت من جمعه فی المحرم سنة تسع و ستین و ستمائة سوی احرف الحقتها بعد ذلک و اجزت روایته لجمیع المسلمین الخ

About one-third of this copy was written by Khwâjah Rukn al-dîn Rûzbahân b. Manṣûr b. Yaḥya b. Shaikh Rukn al-dîn Manṣûr Râstgûi, in a good hand, about the ninth century. The rest, including also the first leaf, has been supplied by a descendant of his, named ‘Abd al-raḥmân b. Junaid Râstgû (راست کو), in a more hurried character, towards the end of the tenth century.

Prefixed is a list of the chapters of the work (foll. 1-6), followed by a little tract in Persian, on the lawfulness of using vinegar (خل). It concludes: هذا التحقیق لمولی العالم الخ. The name of the author, however, is not given. This tract was copied in A.H. 991 [=1583-84 CE], by Ḥaidar b. ‘Alî, who succeeded the transcriber in the possession of this MS. Worm-eaten. Several leaves stained.

Seal of the aforesaid Ḥaidar b. ‘Alî. Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1033 [= 1623-24 CE].

Cat. 223, ix.

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