Koranic Science of SAJÂWANDÎ [IO Islamic 879]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 879 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 46 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

46.

879. Size 93/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 158. Fifteen lines in a page.

وقوفي سجاوندي

A List of the Pauses to be observed in Reading the Koran, according to the system of SAJÂWANDÎ (Muḥammad b. Ṭaifûr, sixth century). This is probably an abridgment of the fundamental work of Sajâwandî,1 who is quoted at the beginning (fol. 3). The real author, perhaps, is introduced immediately afterwards, viz.:

استاذ البشیر )البشرr.) فی عصره المولی الحاجّ قوام الملّة والدین عبدالله بن الفقیه نجم الملة و الدین محمود اعلی اللهُ تعالی درجتهما فی علّیّین.

Beginning:

سورة فاتحة الکتاب سبع آیات و هی مکیة ثم مدنیة و رکوع واحد بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم، کوفی العالمین لآ الرحیم لآ الدین ،ط نستعین ،ط

Written in large characters, by Muḥammad Bâḳi (?) b. ‘Abd al-laṭîf. All the signs of pause, the marks of every fifth and tenth verse, the superscriptions, in red. Red lines round the pages. Some notes.

A list of the abbreviations used for the names of the principal قرّاء on the title-page. The book is wrongly ascribed to Sajâwandî himself, who, moreover, is thereby confounded with a renowned namesake, viz. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-rashîd S. So also in Stewart’s Catal. P. 173.

[Tippu.]

1کتاب الوقف و الابتداء, See Nöldeke, Qor. P. 352; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. p. 60.