Miscellanies [IO Islamic 2502]

Miscellanies.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2502 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1034 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1034.

2502. Size 83/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 389. From thirteen to nineteen lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-10. کتاب الذبح و الاصطیاد المنتخب من کتب الشیخین و وجوه المتاخرین اهل التحقیق و الاجتهاد.

A treatise on Butchering and hunting, according to the Shâfi’ite rite; probably by SUYÛṬÎ (d. A.H. 911).

Begins: الحمدلله الّذی احلّ لنا الطیّبات مصطادة و ذبیحة.

This treatise was partly compiled from the works of the “two Shaikhs” (Ghazzâlî and Râfi’î?), and of later authorities, such as Nawawî; but most of its materials were taken directly from the تحفة المنهاج (of Sirâj al-dîn ‘Omar b. al-Mulaḳḳin, d. A.H. 884).1

II.Foll. 11-18. An episode from the legendary history of Muḥammad. The hero of it is Sham’ûn b. Khâlid.

Imperfect at the beginning. The first words are: اخرجنا عنا العطش و الجوع.

Dated 12th Jumâda I., 1214.

III.Foll. 19-34. A legendary account of Muḥammad’s expeditions to the Syrian frontier, and particularly of the expedition to Tabûk; imperfect at the end.

The narrative, though rather fabulous, begins with quoting old authorities, as follows: و بعد الحمدلة و التصلیة قال علماء السیر فی اخبارهم منهم محمد بن اسحق و عمّار بن زید المدنی و غیرهما کلهم یرفعون الحدیث الی عبدالله بن مسعود الخ.

IV.Foll. 35-224. کتاب شرح الصدور بشرح حال الموتی و القبور.

An account of the state of the soul between death and the resurrection, drawn from the Traditions, and arranged in chapters, by SUYÛṬÎ. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 39.

Incomplete at the end. Defects after foll. 134 and 177.

V.Foll. 225-337. کتاب الانوار انوار النبی المختار.

A legendary history of the birth and early life of Muḥammad, concluding with his marriage with Khadîjah (a so-called Maulid), by ABU’L-ḤASAN BAKRÎ. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 483, who gives the work a somewhat different title.

It is imperfect at the commencement, but apparently only a little is wanting. Begins: من ذلک و سارت الیه الرکبان و قبائل العربان من کل جانب و مکان.

One leaf is missing before fol. 247; the contents of it are, however, supplied on the margin of that folio.

VI.Foll. 338-389. Some other episodes of the life of Muḥammad, narrated in a legendary or rather romantic style:- his marriage with ‘Â’ishah, the wedding of ‘Alî and Fâṭimah, etc. They are introduced and followed by a chronological survey of the events of the first eleven years of the Hijrah; and the whole concludes with an account of the death of the Prophet, which, however, ends abruptly on the next fol.

Begins: ذکر بعض الامور المشهورة بعد الهجرة علی ترتیب السنین.

Written in various inelegant hands, apparently in Malabar.1

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]

1 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 205.

1 A note in Malayalam is on the fly-leaf.