Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 440]

Prayers and charms. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 440 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 373 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 373. B 440. Size 71/2 in. by 41/4 in.; foll. 19. Fourteen and seventeen lines in a page. Fragments of a Prayer-book, written in various hands. Foll. 1-3. Abu’l- Ḥasan SHÂDHILÎ (d. A.H. 656) حزب البحر. It begins: یا الله یا علیّ یا عظیم یا علیم یا حلیم. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 56 sq., and Haneberg in Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. Morgenl. Ges. vii. 25. Two short prayers for the Prophet, one by Muḥammad BAKRÎ (see II.), the other taken from SAKHAWÎ’S (d. A.H. 902) القول البدیع,1 are added on the back of fol. 3, by different hands. Foll. 4-10. A fragment, containing various prayers for Muḥammad. Some of these prayers are attributed to Muḥammad b. Abu’l- Ḥasan BAKRÎ Ṣiddiḳî (probably Abu’l-Ḥasan Muḥammad Miṣrî, d. about A.H. 950), and are described thus: صلوات کان یامر المریدَ بقراءتها بعد فریضة الصبح. One prayer is by ‘ABD AL- ḲÂDIR GÎLÂNÎ (fol. 6). Others are taken from the جوهرة الغوّاص و تحفة اهل الاختصاص, by MUḤAMMAD B. ‘IRÂḲ, who derived them from ‘ABD AL-‘AZÎZ MAHDAWÎ, etc. Of the prayers by ‘ABD AL-ḲÂDIR B. JUNAID, entitled الکبریت فی الاحمر الصلوة علی النبی الازهر, which begin on fol. 10, only the first few lines remain, the rest having been lost. Foll. 11-19. Various pieces, in different hand. Fol. 11 contains the end of a prayer, styled الصلوة المشهورة للسلطان محمود الغزنوی سلطان العرب. Fol. 16. A hymn, by ABU BAKR ‘ADANÎ (?), son of ‘Abdallah al-‘Aidarûs. At the end are written the ninety-nine names of God. 1 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 582.