Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 1529]

Ṣûfism and Ethics. 

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1529 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 668 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

668.

1529. Size 93/4 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 21. Thirteen lines in a page.

رسالۀ خضر

An account of al Khiḍr, the patron saint of the Ṣûfîs; the author is not named.

Begins:الحمدلله الذى خص من اصطفاه للحضرة القدسية الخ.

This treatise is a mere compilation. It is divided into five chapter, as follows: I.(fol.2) فى ذكر نسبه الخ ;

II.(fol.5v.) فى اثبات حيوته الخ ; III. (fol. 11v.) فى الاحاديث التى رواها عن نبينا الخ (twenty traditions) ; IV. (fol. 14) فيما رُوى عنه و لم يرفعه الى النبى الخ (also twenty) ; V.(fol.19) فى ذكر اسباب بقائه الخ .

According to a statement on fol. 4 this treatise was written in A.H. 860; therefore, it is probably that of IMÂM AL-KÂMILÎYAH (Kamâl al-dîn Muḥammad Shâfi’î, d. A.H. 874), mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. iii. 393.

Well written in Nasta’liḳ, of the eleventh century. Marginal notes. Slightly injured by insects.