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Summary of Contents: (۱) نور (۲) قرة العين في أخذ ثأر الحسين (د) (1) Naral-Ayn ft Mashhadi'l-Husayn (pp. 2-83), an account of the martyrdom
of the Imam Husayn ibn 'Alí at Karbalá and its attendant circumstances, by Abú
Isháq al-Isfará iní. This is a different work from the book bearing the same title
described by Ahlwardt, vol. v, p. 429, No. 6129. It begins after the title: الحمد الله الذى خلق محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل الخلق الأولين وحمله واختاره
اله
واصطفاه من ساير العالمين الخ... اما بعد فيقول الامام العالم العلامة ابو اسحق الاسفرايني
طلب منى (3 .p أن أروى ما ورد فى مصرع الحسين ع فألفْتُ هذا الكتاب وسميته نور العين في مشهد الحسين The following are the chief topics. قال الراوی) by the words says the narrator There is no division into chapters, but each new topic is generally introduced Death of the Prophet (p. 3); Muawiya and al-Husayn (p. 4); Mu'awiya's testament
to Yazid (p. 5); Death of Mu'awiya (p. 6); al-Husayn's letter to Yazid (p. 7);
al-Husayn and the people of Kúfa (p. 11); Muslim goes to Kúfa (p. 13); al-Husayn
goes to Kúfa (p. 19); Death of Muslim (p. 29); the Battle of Karbalá (p. 34);
Death of al-Husayn (p. 50): Revolt of al-Mukhtár (p. 52): al-Husayn's family after
his death (p. 52); the Head of al-Husayn (p. 70); ends on p. 83. (2) Qurratu'l-Ayn fi aklidhi tha'ril-Husayn (pp. 84-111), an account of how
the death of al-Husayn was avenged by al-Mukhtár, by Shaykh 'Abdu'llah ibn
Muḥammad, beginning: قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلّامة عبد الله بن محمد الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الخ ..
و بعد، فانّى لما اطلعت على نور العين في مشهد الحسين اعقبته بهذا الكتاب ووسمته اذا رسمته
بقرة العين في اخذ ثار الحسين فأقول الخ Pp. 111 of 35 x 21'2 c. and 20 ll.; large, clear, modern naskh with rubrications;
copied for Muhammad Hasan Khan Santa'd-Dawla (whose book-plate it also
bears) in 1289/1872-3 by Sayyid Muhammad 'All of Khwánsár, Ráz-náma naws.

1. ff. 2-83

Author: Isfarāyīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, d. 1027 or 8 الاسفراييني، إبراهيم بن محمد ابو اسحاق

Title: Nūr al-ʻayn fī mashhad al-Ḥusayn

Title: نور العين في مشهد الحسين

Language(s): Arabic

2. ff. 84-111

Author: Abū ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad عبد الله بن محمد ابو عبد الله

Title: Qurrat al-ʻayn fī akhdh thaʼr al-Ḥusayn

Title: قرة العين في اخذ ثار الحسين

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 111

Dimensions: 35 × 21.2 cm.

Layout

20 lines

Hand(s)

Large, clear, modern naskh with rubrications

History

Origin: 1289 AH; 1872-3 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Copied for Muhammad Hasan Khan Sani' al-Dawla (whose book-plate it also bears)

One of the Belshah MSS.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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