Delhi Persian 1012 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 5 items (a-e)
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Item a. Catalogued as no. 1251 by Storey, Arabic MSS in IOL, vol. ii (1930).
Arabic treatise, conventionally titled Ādāb al-murīdīn, epitomising Ṣūfī doctrine, by Abū al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Suhravardī (d. 563/1168).
Not dated at end.
The colophon (f. 41v) concludes with the Persian rubāʿīyāt ascribed to Mullā Mukhtārī.
Persian annotations in margin.
Coarse nastaʿlīq.
Item b.
Brief treatise listing in the spiritual genealogy of Qādirī Ṣūfī leaders, the latest being Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad traced back via Imām Mūsá al-Kāẓim to the Khalīfah and Imām ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib and ultimately the Prophet Muḥammad.
The author or authority for the tradition is not named.
Not dated at end.
Coarse shikastah āmīz.
Item c.
Brief treatise listing in the spiritual genealogy of Chishtī Ṣūfī leaders, the latest being Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad traced back via Ḥasan Baṣrī and Imām ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib and ultimately the Prophet Muḥammad.
The author or authority for the tradition is not named.
Not dated at end.
Coarse shikastah āmīz.
Item d.
Brief treatise listing in the spiritual genealogy of Suhravardī Ṣūfī leaders, the latest being Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad traced back via Ḥasan Baṣrī and Imām ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib and ultimately the Prophet Muḥammad.
The author or authority for the tradition is not named.
Item e.
Untitled treatise on the induction or bayʿah of novice men (f. 45v) and women (f. 46v) into the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
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