[IO Islamic 1322] شمائل انقيا و دلائل اتقيا

Shamâ’il-i-Anḳiyâ u Dalâ’il-i-Atḳiyâ 

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1836 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 1322 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1836

Shamâ’il-i-Anḳiyâ u Dalâ’il-i-Atḳiyâ (شمائل انقيا و دلائل اتقيا).

An exhaustive dogmatic work on the principles and traditions of Ṣûfism, compiled on the basis of some hundred Arabic and Persian treatises, by Rukn (or Rukn-aldîn) ‘Imâd (see fol. 2a, l. 5), who was a pupil of Shaikh Burhân-aldîn Gharîb of the Ćishtî order, Niżâm-aldîn Auliyâ’s (died the 18th of Rabî’-alâkhar, A.H. 725=A.D. 1325, April 3) third disciple, who died at Daulatâbâd the 12th of Ṣafar, A.H. 732 (A.D. 1331, Nov. 14), compare Safînat-alauliyâ, No.117 (col.287 in this Cat.); Maṭlûb-alṭâlibîn, No. 16, seventh in the list of Khalîfas (ib., col. 324), and Sawâṭi’-alanwâr, No. 23, g in the list of Khalîfas and disciples (ib., col. 334). Rukn ‘Imâd wrote it at the special request of the Shaikh, when the latter had finished his work on similar topics, the نفائس الانفاس , see fol. 2b, ll. 4 and 5, and fol. 4b, l. 2. It is divided into four قسم and ninety-one بيان. The four ḳisms are:

1.در بيان افعال حسنۀ اصحاب طريقت و مقامات سالكان و مرادات و مطالب طالبان عجائب و دقايق آن , on fol. 6a.

2.در بيان احوال ارباب حقيقت از انبياء و اخصّ اولياء بيان معانئ مقام و حال و وقت مقام, on fol. 119a.

3.در اوصاف وجود و ذات بى كيفيّت و كم حضرت الوهيّت و چگونگئ موجودات ديگر و بيان ازل و ازال و ابد و اباد و لطائف و غرائب امر و حكم و قضا و قدر الخ fol. 244a.

4.متضمّن خلقت و اوصاف مهتر آدم و فضائل آدميان واميدواريها در باب بندگان گناهگاران و عنايت بى علّت حضرت غفّار الخ, on fol. 253a.

Beginning:بسم الله الذى اكرم الاتقياء شمائلهم ستايش و ثنا بيعدّ مانند شيم و شمائل انقياء و اصفياء الخ.

Partly collated. Many small injuries throughout the copy.

No date. Complete index on the fly-leaves.

No. 1322, ff. 258, ll. 17; Naskhî, the last page supplied by another hand; size, 91/2 in. by 6 in.