[IO Islamic 2356] مناقب غوثيّه

Manâḳib-i-Ghauthiyyah

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1799 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 2356 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1799

Manâḳib-i-Ghauthiyyah (مناقب غوثيّه).

Another treatise on the doctrines and spiritual teachings of the founder of the Ḳâdirî order, by Muḥammad Ṣâdiḳ Shihâbî Sa’dî Ḳâdirî (see fol. 2a, ll. 5 and 6), a pupil of Sayyid ‘Abd-alḳâdir bin Sayyid ‘Abd-aljalîl alḥasanî alḥusainî Gharîb-allâh, at Aḥmadâbâd (see fol. 5a, ll. 1 and 2). It contains a muḳaddimah (on fol. 5a), fifty short chapters, styled منقبة, a khâtimah (فى كيفيّة اداء صلوة الاسرار), on fol. 74b, and an appendix or تذييل (فى اصوله و فروعه), on fol. 82b, giving the great Shaikh’s pedigree in the paternal and the maternal line, which both lead up to ‘Alî bin Abû Ṭâlib, together, with an interesting and valuable account of the more renowned among his children (forty-nine altogether), on fol. 83a. According to the chronograms, on fol. 5a, ll. 4 and 5, Shaikh Muḥyî-aldîn ‘Abd-alḳâdir aljîlânî was born A.H. 470 (عشق , whereas most other biographers fix his birth in A.H. 471), and died ninety-one years old (اكمل), A.H. 561 (اكمل عشق). His full name runs thus : Ghauth-ala’żam Muḥyî-aldîn Abû Muḥammad Sayyid ‘Abd-alḳâdir alḥasanî alḥusainî aljilânî ibn Sayyid Abû Ṣâliḥ Zain-aldîn Ṣafi-aldîn Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Mûsâ Jangî Dûst Nûr-aldîn ‘Abdallâh bin ‘Abdallâh aljîlî bin Yaḥyâ alzâhid bin Muḥammad bin Dâ’ûd bin Mûsâ althânî bin ‘Abdallâh althânî bin Mûsâ aljaun bin ‘Abdallâh almaḥḍ bin al-Ḥasan almuthannâ bin al-Ḥasan bin ‘Alî ibn Abî Ṭâlib; the most famous among his sons (see Safînat-alauliyâ, Nos. 37-46, cols. 279 and 280 in this Cat.) are : 1. Shaikh Saif-aldîn Abû ‘Abdallâh Sayyid ‘Abd-alwahhâb, born in Sha’bân of A.H. 521 (A.D. 1127, Aug.-Sept., The Safînat-alauliyâ gives A.H. 512, Sha’bân=A.D. 1118, Nov.-Dec.), died at Baghdâd, A.H. 593=A.D. 1197 (پانصد to be read here instead of ششصد, unless ٩ is a mistake for ٠ , as the Safinat-alauliyâ places his death in A.H. 603, 25th of Sha’bân=A.D. 1207, March 27), seventy-one years old. 2. Shaikh Sharîf (Safînat-alauliyâ: Sharaf)-aldîn Sayyid ‘Îsâ, another of the جواهر الاسرار , the same for whom his father prepared the فتوح الغيب , died A.H. 573 (A.D. 1177, 1178), twelve years after his father, and twenty years before ‘Abd-alwahhâb. 3.Shaikh Shams-aldîn Sayyid ‘Abd-al’azîz, died A.H. 558 (A.D. 1163), three years before his father. 4.Shaikh Sirâj-aldîn Abû-alfaraḥ Sayyid ‘Abd-aljabbâr, died the 19th of Sha’bân, A.H. 573 (A.D. 1178, Feb. 10), twelve years after his father, and twenty before his brother ‘Abd-alwahhâb. 5. Shaikh Tâj-aldîn Abû Bakr Sayyid ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ, born A.H. 528 (A.D. 1133, 1134), died in Baghdâd the 6th of Shawwâl, A.H. 603 (A.D. 1207, May 6), forty-two years after his father (consequently the date given here for his death, viz. A.H. 623, ششصد و بيست و سه, which is the same in the Safînat-alauliyâ too=A.D. 1226, Sept. 30, has, it seems, to be changed into ششصد و سه !). 6.Shaikh Abû Isḥâḳ Sayyid Ibrâhîm, died in Baghdâd the 5th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 600 (in Safînat-alauliyâ, the 25th of Dhû-alḳa’dah = A.D. 1204, July 5 or 25), thirty-nine years (not thirty-one, as here is written, unless the date 600 must be changed into 592) after his father. 7. Shaikh Abû-alfaḍl Sayyid Muḥammad, died at Baghdâd in the same year 600 (with the same additional remark, ‘thirty-nine years after his father; ‘in one copy of the Safînat-alauliyâ, A.H. 603 is given as date of his death=A.D. 1207).

8. Shaikh Abû ‘Abd-alraḥmân Sayyid ‘Abdallâh, born A.H. 508 (A.D. 1114, 1115), died in Baghdâd the 27th of Ṣafar, A.H. 587 (A.D. 1191, March 26), twenty-six years (not twenty-eight, as here is written) after his father. 9. Shaikh Abû Zakariyyâ Sayyid Yaḥyâ, born the 6th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 555 (A.D. 1160, March 16 ; the Safinat-alauliyâ gives A.H. 550=A.D. 1155, May 10), died A.H. 600, thirty-nine years after his father. 10. Shaikh Ḍiyâ-aldîn Abû-alnaṣr Mûsâ, born the last of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 539 (A.D. 1144, Sept. 30), died at Damascus the 1st of Jumâdâ-alâkhar, A.H. 618 (A.D. 1221, July 23), fifty-seven years after his father; other sons, found by the author in some other books, are : 11.Sayyid Yûsuf, born and died in Baghdâd.

12.Sayyid Ṣâliḥ, died in the same town. 13.Sayyid ‘Abd-alghaffâr. 14.Sayyid-Ḥabîb-allâh. 15.Sayyid Zâhid. 16.Ḥaḍrat Manṣûr, one of the اقطاب سبعه. 17.Sayyid ‘Abd-alkhalîḳ. 18.Sayyid ‘Abd-alra’ûf ; and 19.Sayyid Majd-aldîn, author of the مقامات عليّه , according to some the last son of the great Shaikh.

The author quotes among his authorities especially the بهجة الاسرار (by Nûr-aldîn Abû-alḥasan ‘Alî bin Yûsuf Lakhmî, who wrote about A.H. 660=A.D. 1262, see O. Loth, Arabic Cat., p. 200) and the تكملة (by Imâm Yâfi’î, who died A.H. 768, the 20th or 21st of Jumâdâ-alâkhar= A.D. 1367, Feb. 21, comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 332 and 333, and Nos. 642 and 643 in this Cat., where it has the fuller title of خلاصة المفاخر ; see also the Safinat-alauliyâ, No. 62); he cannot therefore have lived before the end of the eighth century of the Hijrah.

Beginning: الحمد لله الذى جعل كرامات الولىّ الخ.

The incomplete date in the colophon is the 26th of Sha’bân in the seventh year (of whose reign, is not stated).

A work similar to this, a kind of defence of ‘Abd-alḳâdir’s doctrines, under the title of مخازن القادريّه , by Shams-aldin bin Walî-allâh, is noticed in Rieu ii. p. 874, No. VIII. College of Fort William, 1809.

No. 2356, ff. 86, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 57/8 in. by 31/8 in.