Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 2295] الحرز الثمین

Prayers and Charms. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2295 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 348 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 348. 2295. Size 81/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 388. Nineteen lines in a page. A copious Commentary (ممزوج) on the preceding work [ed note: i.e. احِصْن احَصِين], by ‘ALÎ B. SULṬÂN MUḤAMMAD (Harawî Ḳâri’, d. A.H. 1016 [= 1607-08 CE, ed note: now recorded as 1605-06], at Makkah). According to Ḥ. Kh. iii. 73, it was composed in A.H. 1008 [=1599-1600 CE], and entitled الحرز الثمين. Cf. Stewart’s Cat. 175, ii. It begins with the explanation of the introductory words of Ibn Jazarî, بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم اللهم صل علی سید الخلق محمد و علی آله و صحبه و سلم Then follow, as the authentic text, the words given at the beginning of No. 346. The usual beginning, لا اله الخ (see no. 345), is mentioned here only as the reading of some MSS. Well written. Slightly injured by insects. [College of Fort William, 1825.] [ed note: Quick link to other manuscripts of works by ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad Qārī al-Harawī]