Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 430]

Prayers and charms. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 430 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 362 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 362. B 430. Size 7 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 104. Nine, afterwards six lines in a page. The Prayer-book of ‘ALÎ B. SULṬÂN MUḤAMMAD Ḳârî’ (d. A.H. 1016), called الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم. See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 56; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 148; and Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 53 sq. Written in a large plain hand, with vowel-points. A Persian translation is added between the lines, and prefixed (foll. 1-6) is an introduction in Persian, by one Aḥmad b. ‘Abd al-raḥmân, containing rules for forty days of devotion. Both were made for the use of one Shâh Hâshim, at Makkah. The introduction begins: حمد متوافر و ثناء متکاثر. The last two pages contain another prayer, دعاء استخارة کل یوم بعد الرکعتین. It begins: اللهم انی استخیرک The Arabic Text was collated subsequently by Muḥammad Ḥusain b. ‘Abdallah Multânî Makkî Ḳâdirî.祈祷文与祈福符咒。 该手稿现隶属于印度事务部（India Office）馆藏，编号为IO Bijapur 430。 [元数据来源：奥托·洛特（Otto Loth）所著《印度事务部图书馆阿拉伯手稿目录》（第一卷），第362号，此处附补充注释与超链接]。 362. B 430。开本尺寸为7英寸×4又3/4英寸；共计104叶。每页原设九行，后改为六行。 此为"阿里·本·苏丹·穆罕默德·卡里（ʿAlī b. Sulṭān Muḥammad Qârî，卒于回历1016年）"所编祈祷书，原名为الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم（意为《至宏祷集与珍奇华笺》）。相关文献可参见：Ḥ. Kh. 第三卷第56页；弗吕格尔（Flügel）《维也纳馆藏手稿》第三卷第148页；奥默尔（Aumer）《慕尼黑馆藏手稿》第53页及后续章节。 该手稿以清晰规整的大字书写，标注有元音音符。行间附波斯语译文，卷首（第1至6叶）收录由艾哈迈德·本·阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼（Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-raḥmân）撰写的波斯语序言，内含四十日修行仪轨。此手稿与译文均为哈希姆沙阿（Shâh Hâshim）在麦加（Makkah）定制。序言开篇为：حمد متوافر و ثناء متکاثر。 末两页收录另一篇祈祷文：دعاء استخارة کل یوم بعد الرکعتین（意为《每日两拜后祈请仪轨》），开篇为：اللهم انی استخیرک（意为"真主啊，我向您祈请指引"）。 该阿拉伯语文本后经穆罕默德·侯赛因·本·阿卜杜拉·穆尔塔尼·麦加基·卡迪里（Muḥammad Ḥusain b. ʿAbdallāh Multânî Makkî Qâdirî）校勘。