Delhi Persian 88 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 88 a.

Untitled collection of Arabic prayers recited in Shīʿī mortuary prayers, with Persian notes explaining variants to the prayer formula for minors, daughters, or wives.

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Rough naskh with nastaʿlīq for Persian.

Delhi Persian 88 b.

Brief untitled treatise regarding the litany comprising a thousand-and-one divine names, explaining the chain of transmission from the Prophet Muḥammadthrough Imām Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, and the benefits of its recitation.

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Delhi Persian 88 c.

Untitled Arabic litany comprising a thousand-and-one divine names, divided into smaller sections termed dah nāmah followed by a few words on related properties, apparently transmitted from the Prophet Muḥammadthrough Imām Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī.

The prayer combines many phraseological elements common to the famous prayers Duʿāʾ Mujīrand Duʿāʾ Jawshan al-Kabīr.

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Frequent additions and corrections in margins.

Delhi Persian 88 d.

Brief Arabic prayer comprised of the divine litany.

In a cramped note given in the margin at the beginning, the transmitter of this prayer is stated as Shaykh Jān Allāh (?), who transmitted it to ʿAṭāʾ Allāh known as Shaykh Jān Muḥammad [and the late] Shaykh Mīrānjī Ṣiddīqī Qādirī.

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The prayer is followed by miscellaneous notes on vaẓāʾif or remembrances and the arbaʿīn of the early prophets Mūsá, ʿĪsá, and Dāʾūd.

Delhi Persian 88 e.

Arabic prayer apparently extracted from the Kīmiyā-yi saʿādat, the renowned and early compendium on religious and ethical obligations, rituals, and mystical thought by the great Ghaznavid theologian writing from the Shāfiʿī perspective of Sunnī Islam, the ‘Ḥujjat al-Islām’ Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī al-Ṭūsī(d. 1111).

According to a concluding statement, the prayer was revealed to the Prophet Muḥammadby the Archangel Jibrāʾīl or Gabriel, and that it has fifty special properties.

The work is followed by further notes on virtuous actions and recitations.

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Delhi Persian 88 f.

Treatise commenting and expounding on the tradition of transmission and benefits of the prayer Duʿāʾ-yi Kīmiyā-yi saʿādat(see item e), by an unnamed author.

The present copy preserves eighteen properties out of a possible fifty.

The work is defective at end.

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