Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 432]

Prayers and charms.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 432 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 360 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

360.

B 432. Size 83/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 202. Thirteen lines in a page.

A fragment of a treatise on pious charms and remedies, arranged in 100 paragraphs (فائدة), and probably entitled کتاب مائة الفوائد.

The author is not mentioned. He frequently quotes Bûnî (d. A.H. 622), the “Imâm” Aḥmad b. Mûsa عجیل, Majd al-dîn Shîrâzî (i.e. Fîrûzâbâdî, d. A.H. 817), and various old authorities. One of his Shaikhs was Sulaimân b. Ibrâhîm ‘Alawî. He also mentions (fol. 4) that he wrote at an earlier period a treatise with the title الطریقة الواضحة الی اسرار الفاتحة.

This MS. is imperfect at the beginning. The first words are: تعالی ان لا یدانس اسمه, from the first فائدة, which treats of the magic powers of the Basmalah. The second فائدة (fol. 4) is inscribed: فی فضل سورة الفاتحة.

The latter portion, from the sixty-second paragraph. Is wanting. Only the last fol. is preserved, which concludes as follows: تمت تمام شد فوائد القران.

The last three pages contain an amulet for horses, with directions in Turkish.

Cat. 233, v.