Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 437] جواهر المضیّة

Prayers and charms. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 437 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 366 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 366. B 437. Size 51/2 in. by 31/2 in.; foll. 23. Nine lines in a page. A Prayer for Muḥammad, mentioning all his bodily and mental qualities, and styled accordingly (fol. 6v.): جواهر المضیّة (!) فی حلیة خیر البریّة The author gives his name as 2 فاضل بن العارف الدَهْلوی السَفِیدَنی ثم بفضل الله ذی الاحسان و الامتحان المَدَنی He compiled his work from (Tabrîzî’s) المشکوة, (Tirmidhî’s) الشمائل, and (‘Iyâḍ’s) الشفاء. The introduction commences: اصفی تحف المحامد الوافیات مرسولة الی حضرة القدسیة الصمدیة, and the prayer begins (fol. 6v.): اللهم صلّ و سلّم علی سیّدنا و مولینا محمد الذی کان فخما فی نفسه مفخَّما فی الصدور Well written, with vowel-points. Red rulings. Inscribed این درود حلیه. Cf. Catal. 233, vii. 2 From Safîdan, in the district of Sirhind.