Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 2738] لقط المرجان فی اخبار الجانّ

• Tradition.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2738 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 177 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

177. [لقط المرجان فی اخبار الجانّ]

2738. Size 8^3/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 116. Nineteen lines in a page.

لقط المرجان فی احکام (sic) الجان تالیف الشیخ الامام العلامة الرحلة الفهامة المحقق المدقق عبد الرحمن ابو الفضل جلال الدین الاسیوطی رحمه الله تعالی

A treatise of SUYÛṬÎ on the nature and history of demons and the devil, according to the tradition, properly styled لقط المرجان فی اخبار الجانّ. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 328, and Cat. Lugd. iv. 257. It is an abstract (تلخیص) of Badr al-dîn Shiblî’s (d. A. H. 769) work on the same subject, entitled آکام المرجان فی احکام الجانّ, on which see Ḥ. Kh. i. 386.

This treatise begins with a succession of short paragraphs, ذکر وجودهم, ذکر خلقهم , etc., and concludes with two long chapters, جامع من اخبار الجان and جامع من اخبار الشیطان

Well written. Dated 5 Shawwâl, 1115 (فی خمس شهر شوال سنة خمس عشر مایة الف). Preceded by a list of contents. Worm-eaten. The leaves have been misplaced in binding; they should stand in the following order: foll. 1-9, 26-57, 18-25, 10-17, 58-116.

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]