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Title
الاخبار والانبا بشعار ذوي القربى ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Akhbār wa-al-anbāʼ bi-shaʻār dhawī al-qurbá ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1166H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcxw42nm64d
Publisher
[1750-1799?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1750-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
184 leaves : paper ; 155 x 107 (125 x 72) mm bound to 155 x 114 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2009.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3649³⁸.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-26a: al-Akhbār wa-al-anbāʼ bi-shaʻāʼir dhawī al-qurbá. On the duties of a Muslim to his relatives with a prayer by Muḥammad Ghawth Allāh ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn al-Hindī.
2. fol. 26b-27a: Fihrist mā fī hādha al-majmūʻah. Table of contents.
3. fol. 27b-45b: al-Salāsil al-maymūnah al-mubārakah al-muttaṣilah bi-Sayyidinā Muhannā Bāʻalawī al-Ḥaḍramī. The chains of transmitters and teachers from al-Ḥaḍramī back to the Prophet.
4. fol. 45b-88a: al-Salāsil al-mubārakah al-muttaṣilah bi-Shaykhinā Yūsuf ibn Abī al-Jalāl al-Maqāṣīri al-Jāwī. The chains of transmitters and teachers of al-Maqāṣīri al-Jāwī. The latter part of the work treats of the chains of transmitters of Ḥaḍramī mentioned in the previous text.
5. fol. 88b-90a: [al-Salāsil al-muttaṣilah bi-Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad]. The chain of transmitters and teachers of Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad back to Abū Bakr al-Mawṣilī al-Shaybānī.
6. fol. 90a-97b: al-Asmāʼ al-Suhrawardīyah wa-al-duʻāʼ bi-hā. A prayer by Ghawth Allāh ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn al-Hindī.
7. fol. 97b-114a: al-Ṣalawāt al-mansūbah li-Ḥaḍdat Sayyidnā Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī. The prayers attributed to al-Jīlānī.
8. fol. 114a-115a: Istighfār / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sulṭān. A prayer for forgiveness.
9. fol. 115b-121a: Ḥizb al-nūr / Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī. Prayer.
10. fol. 121a-129b: Ḥizb al-Shaykh al-Sayyid al-Imām Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Wafāʼ. Prayer.
11. fol. 130a-136a: Sharḥ Fātiḥat al-fuqarāʼ. Prayer which serves as a commentary on al-Fātiḥah attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and taken from the book entitled Shams al-maʻārif by al-Būnī.
12. fol. 136a-146b: Ḥizb al-baḥr / Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī. Prayer for safety at sea.
13. fol. 147a-148b: Ḥizb al-mutaḥaṣṣin / Abū al-Mawāhib al-Shādhilī. Prayer for protection.
14. fol. 148b-161b: Ḥizb al-Shaykh al-Ajl Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī. Prayer followed by a fāʼidah containing a table (fol. 160a-161b).
15. fol. 161b-165a: al-Ḥizb al-musammá Fatḥ anwār al-baṣāʼir. Prayer by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.
16. fol. 165a-175a: Duʻāʼ al-sayfī wa-ḥirz al-yamānī. Prayer followed by several fawāʼid (f. 173a-175a).
17. fol. 175a-177a: Duʻāʼ jalīl wa-tawassul ʻaẓīm / ʻUkāshah. Prayer.
18. fol. 177a-: Bayān faḍl basmalah al-raḥmān al-raḥīm /al-Būnī. On the excellences of al-basmalah. This is followed by several fāʼidahs.
Notes
Ms. codex.
A collection containing a number of prayers and works on Islamic topics.
Title from introduction of first work (fol. 1b).
Obscured text and partial list of contents of the volume (f. 1a). Magic square using the letters of Allāh (f. 180b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 184 ; catchwords ; pagination in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals on first 21 folios ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; use of red for sentence divisions ; fol. 90a has later sheet with replacement text pasted over it ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from latter half of the XVIIIth century. Written in a single hand.
Incipit: [الاخبار] بسم ... الحمد لله علي كمال توفيقه والهداية بنور منه -- [السلاسل ... الحضرمي] بسم ... الحمد لله رافع منشور الولاية على عباد الذاكرين -- [السلاسل ... الجاوى] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى انار سراير عباده -- [السلاسل ... ناصر الدين] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى بنعمته تتم الصالحين -- [الاسما] بسم ... الحمد لله ... وبعد فقد افاد سيدنا ... بالغوث من اولاد الخواجا -- [الصلوات] بسم ... لقد جاءكم رسول من انفسكم عزيز عليه -- [اسنغفار] بسم ... استغفار الله العظيم -- [حزب النور] بسم ... يا الله يا نور يا حق يا مبين -- [حزب ... بن وفا] بسم ... اللهم اني امن بك وبملايكتك -- [شرح فاتحة] انه قال من قرا سورة الفاتحة على هذا الوجه -- [حزب ... الشاذلي] بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين اياك -- [حزب المتحصن] بسم ... اللهم بسطوة جبروت قهرك -- [حزب ... الكيلاني] بسم ... اللهم اني اعوذ بك وتوسل اليك -- [حزب المسمى بفتح] بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا يفوق وبعلوا -- [دعا السيفي] بسم ... اللهم انت الملك الحق الذي لا اله الا انت -- [دعا جليل] بسم ... يا كثير النوال يا دايم الافضال -- [بيان] اذا تلاها الشخص عدد حروفها سبعماية
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blind-tooling on flap fore-edge. Multi-colored endbands

Discovery Information

Subject
Basmalah—Early works to 1800
Families—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Muslim scholars—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
magic squares
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
378

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/645c1136-0380-475f-b750-c436819f31f4/manifest