Delhi Persian 1158 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a. Catalogued as no. 1303 by Storey, Arabic MSS in IOL, vol. ii (1930).

Arabic prayer invoking the Ghaws̲-i Aʿẓam, traditionally ascribed to Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166).

Work treated as an additional 12 folios (foliated 1-12) forming secondary series of stamped foliation and placed before folio 1 (item b) erroneously foliated as beginning first series of stamped foliation.

Not dated at end.

Occasional annotations in margins. Additional notes in Persian (f. 8v) on methods of ritual prayer transcribed in oblique and vertical orientations with watery ink.

Folios 9-12 left blank.

See IOL Microfilm 205.

Item b.

Untitled collection of correspondence commenting on various occult, magical, doctrinal, and exegetical matters. Although the author does not identify himself in the work, an ascription on the title page (f. 6r) identifies the author as Khvājah Bīrang Muḥammad al-Bāqī, that is, the Naqshbandī saint, Khvājah Muḥammad Bāqī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 1012/1603, at Delhi), better known as Shaykh ʿAbd al-Bāqī and Bāqī Billāh, who was also the spiritual preceptor of the Mujaddidī Naqshbandī saint, Shaykh Aḥmad Fārūqī (d. 1624). The collection was evidently compiled by a devoted disciple, who remains unidentified.

Not dated at end.

Folio 17r has the Arabic ritual prayer Duʿāʾ Qunūt transcribed obliquely in margins.

Rough nastaʿlīq with Arabic quotations in naskh.

Folio 1r bears an excised paper slip from a finely illuminated work consisting of a gilded basmalah cartouche and ruled jadval with gold-sprayed ground, containing the Kursī'nāmah or genealogy of the Prophet Muḥammad and four 'righteous' caliphs termed here Chahār Yār, Abā Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿUs̲mān, and ʿAlī, traced to their common ancestor Kilāb, but omitting Quṣayy ibn Kilāb. Transcribed in extremely fine nastaʿlīq calligraphy. Note added below stating the author of the genealogy is ignorant and stupid (aḥmaq va jāhil).

See IOL Microfilm 205.

Item c.

Untitled biography of Khvājah Muḥammad al-Bāqī, that is, the Naqshbandī saint, Khvājah Muḥammad Bāqī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 1012/1603, at Delhi), better known as Shaykh ʿAbd al-Bāqī and Bāqī Billāh, who was also the spiritual preceptor of the Mujaddidī Naqshbandī saint, Shaykh Aḥmad Fārūqī (d. 1624), by an unnamed author.

The work concludes (ff. 63v-65v) with an account of the circumstances for the saint’s death and location of his tomb, as well as laudatory verses arranged in ruled columns.

Dated colophon (f. 65v): completed 27 Rabīʿ II 1197/1 April 1783.

Following the colophon is a short supplement (ff. 65v-70r) supplying further details and authorities on the saint’s death, with further eulogies arranged in ruled columns. Note dated at end.

See IOL Microfilm 206.

Item d.

Untitled treatise compiling the pronouncements of Khvājah Muḥammad al-Bāqī (d. 1012/1603, at Delhi) on various points of Ṣūfī doctrine by an unnamed author.

Dated colophon (f. 103r): completed in haste by Muḥammad Muʿaẓẓam Qādirī, Thursday, 8 Jumādá I 1197, RY 25 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam/11 April 1783.

See IOL Microfilm 207.

Item e.

Untitled treatise compiling the pronouncements of Khvājah Khvurd ibn Muḥammad al-Bāqī on various points of Ṣūfī doctrine by an unnamed author.

Dated colophon (f. 111v): completed by Muḥammad Muʿaẓẓam Qādirī for Khvājah Muḥammad Jān, 6 Jumādá II 1196, RY 24 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam/19 April 1782.

See IOL Microfilm 207.

Item f.

Commentary on the collected rubāʿiyāt of Khvājah Muḥammad al-Bāqī (d. 1012/1603, at Delhi) by an unnamed author, who states that although Jāmī had expounded on Ṣūfī principles and terms in his writings, demands were made for further clarifications.

Dated colophon (f. 164v): completed by Muḥammad Muʿaẓẓam Qādirī for Miyān Khvājah Muḥammad Jān, Monday, 9 Muḥarram 1196, RY 23 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam/25 December 1781.

Annotations in margins.

See IOL microfilm 208.

Folios 166-7 left blank.

Item g.

Ṣūfī mas̲navī composed by Khvājah Muḥammad al-Bāqī (d. 1012/1603, at Delhi), including a section on leaders of the Naqshbandīyah.

The text is arranged informally into three columns without rulings.

Dated colophon (f. 190v): completed 3 Ramaz̤ān in RY 23 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam (1196)/12 August 1782.

See IOL Microfilm 209.

Item h.

Ṣūfī treatise propounding the view that the Islamic faith is renewed every century by an person sent from Allāh, with diagrams, by an unnamed author.

Although the work contains no clear date reference, it cites as its authorities the famous scholars Shaykh Aḥmad Sarhindī (sic) and ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm Siyālkūtī (d. 1067/1656).

Dated colophon (f. 195v): completed by Muḥammad Muʿaẓẓam, 9 Ramaz̤ān 1196/18 August 1782.

See IOL microfilm 210.

Item i.

Untitled treatise on obscure or esoteric subjects in Sufism attributed to Khvājah Muḥammad al-Bāqī (d. 1012/1603, at Delhi).

Not dated at end.

See IOL microfilm 210.

Item j.

Ṣūfī mas̲navī on divine unity composed in the sarīʿ metre by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

See IOL microfilm 210.

Item k.

Untitled Ṣūfī mas̲navī composed in the khafīf metre by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

See IOL microfilm 210.

Item l.

Ṣūfī mas̲navī composed in the rajaz metre entitled and ascribed only in the colophon to a certain Gul Muḥammad.

The work is dated to 1115/1703-4 according to a chronogram.

Dated colophon (f. 217r): completed by Muḥammad Muʿaẓẓam, 3 Shavvāl 1196/11 September 1782.

See IOL Microfilm 210.

Cropped Urdu inscription on last flyleaf.