Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 994 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Two Naqshbandi works

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Ḥasanāt al-ḥaramayn by Muḥammad Shākir ibn Shaykh Badr al-Dīn Sirhindī; 1 copy of Zubdat al-maqāmāt by Badakhshānī, Muḥammad Hāshim ibn Muḥammad Qāsim, active 1621-1646
1. ff. 1-40
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Ḥasanāt al-ḥaramayn, a Persian translation by Muḥammad Shākir ibn Shaykh Badr al-Dīn Aḥmadī Sirhindī of the account (originally written in Arabic) of a journey to Mecca and Medina in 1068 (1657-58) by Khvājah Muḥammad Maʻṣūm. The translation was completed in 1071 (1660-61) and provides a pious account of pilgrimage ceremonial. The work consists of three chapters and a khātimah.

13 lines to a page; fair taʻliq; rubrications; ruled margins.

Dated 25 Shaʻbān 1075 (13 March 1665).

2. ff. 41-280

Zubdat al-maqāmāt, a record by Muḥammad al-Ḥāshim (fl. 1621-1646) of the sayings of the Naqshbandi Shaykhs: Badr al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt Aḥmad Fārūqī Sirhindī(1563-1624) and Khvājah Muḥammad al-Bāqī al-Uvaysī al-Naqshbandī . The author had met Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī in 1031(1621) and studied with him for nearly two years until his death. He compiled this record of their father's discourses including also those of Khvājah Muḥammad al-Bāqī at the request of the saint's sons. The work was completed, according to the final chronogram, in 1037 (1627).

Lacuna after folio 49 and leaves apparently misplaced; 15-18 lines per page; small taʻliq in more than one hand; copyist (f. 90 to end) Nūr Allāh Sirhindī, a disciple of the author; rubrications; ruled margins.

17th century

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 280 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 130 mm.

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History

Origin: mid-17th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.

1876

Government of India

Record Sources

Based on description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/11_f050r, f. 50r and /f. 51r

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