[IO Islamic 2256] انيس الطّالبين و وعدة السّالكين

Anîs-alṭâlibîn û wa’dat-alsâlikîn

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1851 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 2256 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1851

Anîs-alṭâlibîn û wa’dat-alsâlikîn (انيس الطّالبين و وعدة السّالكين).

The discourses, spiritual teachings, and miraculous deeds of Khwâjah Bahâ-aldîn Naḳshband, with his real name, Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Bukhârî, the founder of the Naḳshbandi order (born, according to the Safinat-alauliyâ, No. 82, col. 283 in this Cat., in Muḥarram, A.H. 718=A.D. 1318, March, see also Rauḍat-alsâlikîn , No. 4, ib., col. 260; ib., col. 263; and Haft Iḳlim, No. 1489, ib, col. 491 ; Rieu fixes his birth in A.H. 728=A.D. 1327, 1328), by Ṣalâḥ bin Mubârak albukhârî, who entered the service of Khwâjah ‘Alâ-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr (died A.H. 802, 20th of Rajab=A.D.1400, March 17) A.H. 785 (A.D. 1383), and was by his intercession favoured with the patronage of the great Shaikh (see fol.2b, l. 13 sq.). After Naḳshband’s death, the 3rd of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H.791 (see fol. 3a, l. 15, and comp. the Safînat-alauliyâ, loc. cit., where he is stated to have reached the age of 73 years, a corroboration of the date 718 for his birth)=A.D. 1389, March 2, he began to compile this work, which is also styled مقامات خواجه نقشبند , comp. the fly-leaf, fol. 1a, and the colophon, and contains four ḳisms, viz.:

1.در تعريف ولى و ولايت, on fol. 4b.

2.در شرح بدايت احوال حضرت خواجۀ ما قدّس اللّه روحه و ذكر سلسلۀ خواجها روّح الله ارواحهم, on fol. 8a.

3.در بيان صفت پرورش احوال و اقوال و اخلاق حضرت خواجۀ ما قدّس الله روحه و شرح طريقۀ نسبت و نتائج صحبت و كيفيّت معاملۀ ايشان با طالبان و حقائقى و لطائفى كه در محلّى بر لفظ مبارك ايشان ميگذشته است, on fol.23b.

4.در ذكر سائر كرامات و ظهورات و احوال و آثارى كه از حضرت خواجۀ ما قدّس الله سرّه در محال تلاطم امواج بحار ولايت بظهور آمده است. on fol. 45a.

Beginning:حمد بى منتها حضرت خدايرا جلّ سلطانه و عمّ احسانه كه محامد اوّلين و آخرين الخ.

Another copy of the same work is described in W.Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 10, No. 23. A treatise of similar contents and similar title (مقامات خواجه بهاء الدّين, styled in Krafft, p. 113, رسالة القدسيّة النّقشبنديّة), by Khwâjah Muḥammad Pârsâ, another pupil of Bahâ-aldîn Naḳshband (who died A.H. 822, the 24th of Dhû-alḥijjah=A.D. 1420, Jan. 11, see Nos. 1855 and 1923, 3 below, and comp. No. 1357, 14 above), is noticed in Rieu ii. p. 862a, No. II, see ib., iii. p. 1095.

Copied at Lâhûr for the library of Khwâjah Muḥammad Maghfûr, son of Khwâjah Ghiyâth-aldin Muḥammad, by Aḥmad Ḥusainî Ḳanûjî, A.H. 1008 (A.D. 1599, 1600). Collated A.H. 1013 (A.D. 1604, 1605).

College of Fort William, 1809.

No. 2256, ff. 123, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece; size, 91/4 in. by 55/8 in.