Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 2276] احِصْن احَصِين

Prayers and Charms. احِصْن احَصِين

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2276 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 345 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

345.

2276. Size 71/2 in. by 41/4 in.; foll. 107. Eleven lines in a page.

IBN JAZARÎ’s (Shams al-dîn Abu’l-khair Muḥammad b. Muḥammad, d. A.H. 833 [=1429 CE]) Prayer-book, called احِصْن احَصِين [The Forified Citadel]. See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 71; Flügel, Hdss., iii. 144, etc. It was printed at Calcutta, A.H. 1229.

Beginning:

لااله الآ الله عدّة للقائه...قال الشیخ الامام المجتهد العلّامة امام ائمّة المحدثین قاضی قضاة المسلمین فرید الدهر وحید العصر استاد البشر شمس الملة و الشریعة و الدین ابوالخیر محمد بن محمد بن محمد الجزری الشافعی رحمه الله ..اما بعد حمد الله الذی جعل الدعاء لرد القضاء الخ

Written in a good Persian hand, with vowel-points. Numerous marginal notes. Several leaves supplied in a later hand. Slightly injured on the margin and stained. Foll. 21-61 and 79-96 should be transposed.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

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