[IO Islamic 516] خاتمه

• Khâtimah
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1856 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 516 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1856

Khâtimah (خاتمه).

An elaborate work on the whole doctrine of Ṣûfism, principally based on Ḳurân verses and traditions, by Sayyid Muḥammad bin Sayyid Yûsuf Ḥusainî, commonly known as Muḥammad Ḥusainî Gisûdarâz, the ‘long-locked one,’ the greatest disciple and Khalîfah of Shaikh Naṣîr-aldîn Maḥmûd Ćirâgh of the Ćishtî order (see No. 1854 above). He was born at Dihlî according to the Sawâṭi’-alanwâr, No. 22 a (col. 331 in this Cat.), the 4th of Rajab, A.H. 720 (A.D. 1320, Aug. 10, whereas the date usually given is A.H. 721), and died A.H. 825, the 16th of Dhû-alḳa’dah (A.D. 1422, Nov. 1), at the age of 105 lunar years, comp. Rieu i.p. 347^b, where a copy of his discourses, collected under the title جوامع الكلم by his disciple Muḥammad bin Muḥammad Akbar Ḥusainî, is described and details about his life are given.

Beginning:ربّ انعمت فزد له’ از رسوم مستمرّه و عادات ملتزمۀ سبيل ايشان دوام وضو است و عوامّ و خواصّ ايشان بى وضو نباشند مگر بحالة مرض الخ.

Title and author’s name appear on fol.203^a. On the same page the work ends, dated the 21st of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1067 (A.D. 1657, Aug. 31), and is followed on ff. 203^b-205^a by a short epilogue on the unity of God, beginning:لا اله الاّ اللّه حقّ سبحانه و تعالى عبارتست از هستى و آن هستى بيچون و بيچگونه است الخ .

Occasional notes and glosses on the margin; some pages a little worm-eaten.

No. 516, ff. 205, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 203^b; size, 7^1/2 in. by 4^5/8 in.