Islamic Traditions [IO Bijapur 107]

Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 107 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 190 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 190. B 107. Size 101/4 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 82. Fifteen lines in a page. A treatise on the ascent of Muḥammad, رسالة المعراج, by ‘ALAM ALLAH b. ‘Abd al-razzâḳ Makkî Ḥanafî. The preface begins: الحمدلله الذی جعل المعراجَ الی اوج قربه دینَه و طاعتَه . The author relates in it that he was driven from his former dwelling-place, Burhânpûr, by religious disturbances (فلما حدث فیها ما حدث من فتنة الدین الخ), and that, after having wandered about for some time, he was invited to the court of a prince, whom he calls (fol. 2) مؤیّد الدین المحمدی. To him he dedicates the present work, which he had begun several years before. The treatise commences (fol. 3v.): الحمدلله المبدع المختار الواحد القهار. Various authorities, as late as Ibn Ḥajar Haithamî (d. A. H. 973), are quoted in it. Conclusion: هذا ما تیسر لی فی بیان المعراج المحمدی و ابراز اسرار ما وقع له صلعم فی تلک اللیلة المبارکة من العنایات الربانیة و الرعایات الصمدانیة الخ. Well written, of the eleventh century. A defect after fol. 11. Cat. 224, xvi.