Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 439]

• Prayers and charms.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 439 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 356 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

356.

B439. Size 9^1/4 in. b 5^1/4 in.; foll. 32. Nineteen lines in a page.

کتاب دفع العاهات فی الصلوة علی افضل المخلوقات تالیف الشیخ الامام العالم العلامة مولانا السید محمود القادری المدنی الشافعی حفظه الله آمین

A fragment of a Book of Prayers for Muḥammad, consisting of extracts from Jazûlî’s دلائل الخیرات, with paraphrase and explanations, and a few original additions, so as to form a sort of commentary on that work. The author, Saiyid MAḤMÛD ḲÂDIRÎ, of Madînah, was still alive when this MS. was written, i.e. A.H. 1107 [= 1695-96 CE].

Beginning (fol. 1v.): فصل ثم ادرجْ فی قرّة عینیک بقیّة الادعیة المرغوبة و الصلوات المحمودة من الکتاب المشهور المسمّی بدلائل الخیرات

The division of the دلائل الخیرات into quarters and thirds is also marked here. The first quarter ends on fol. 6. At the end, as additions by the author, are two prayers for Muḥammad, ascribed to Abu Bakr and ‘Alî, and after these a drawing of the three tombs in the Mosque of Madînah.

The colophon offers a different title:

اقول و قد تم بحمدالله و توفیقه الکتاب المسمّی بالنجاة من العاهات فی نحو کراسین ولکن بخط المؤلف حفظه الله تعالی و نفعنا بعلومه و برکاته و هذا کالشرح الاعظم عند العقلاء للاقوال و الادعیة التی اختلف [فیها]¹ العلماء من کتاب دلائل الخیرات و خیر الکلام ما قلّ و دلّ العبد الفقیر تاج الدین المقدسی عفی الله عنه سنة ۱۱۰۷

Well written, with vowel-points, but injured and defective in several places. Leaves are wanting after foll. 3, 5, 28, 29, and 30.

Cat. 233 (Duawat), iii. 1.

¹ Effaced.