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¶ § 702. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, the fourth Caliph, died in 40/661 (see Ency. Isl., Brockelmann Sptbd. i pp. 73–6, pl. iv no. 276 supra).

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Duʿāʾ al-ṣabāḥ (beg. Allāhumma yā man dalaʿa lisān al-ṣabāḥ), an Arabic prayer.

Persian translations and commentaries:

(a) (Tarjamah i Duʿāʾ i ṣabāḥ) (beg. Bār-K̲h̲udāyā, ai ān kih bīrūn āwardah zabān i ṣabāḥ rā): Browne Pers. Cat. 132 foll. 20–38.

(b) S̲h̲arḥ i Duʿāʾ i Amīr (beg. K̲h̲airu ʿizzatin (read g̲h̲urratin?) ṭalaʿa min g̲h̲aibi laili ’l-midād), a detailed commentary completed in 900 (evidently on the Duʿāʾ i ṣabāḥ, since this date is indicated by the chronogram Tamma duʿāʾun bi-ṣabāḥi ’l-amīr) by Ibrāhīm Amīnī: Ivanow 1105 (early 17th cent.).

(c) (Tarjamah i Duʿāʾ i ṣabāḥ) (beginning not stated in the catalogue): Loth 371 (4) (c).

(d) (S̲h̲arḥ i Duʿāʾ i ṣabāḥ) (beg. Naḥmaduka yā man k̲h̲alaqa ṣubḥa iṣābati ’l-duʿāʾi), a commentary (presumably on the same prayer, though it is here ascribed to the Imām [Jaʿfar al-]Ṣādiq), by Qāsim Mīrakī: i.ḥ. 538, Mehren p. 63 no. 2 (5).

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Duʿāʾ i Yā Sāmiʿa ’l-duʿāʾ, an Arabic prayer in five-lined strophes (see Loth 371 (4) (b)).

Persian Commentaries:

(a) a commentary in which each strophe is paraphrased in a rubāʿī: Peshawar 1957 (2).

(b) another commentary: Peshawar 1957 (1).

§ 703. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās, the Prophet’s cousin, is said to have died in 68/687–8 or soon after (see Ency. Isl., Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 331, etc.).

al-Duʿāʾ al-Suryānī (beg. Anā ’l-maujūdu fa-’ṭlubnī tajidnī), an Arabic poem said to have been translated by Ibn ʿAbbās from the Syriac text of the Psalms of David (see Fleischer, Leipzig catalogue p. 434 b).

Translations and commentaries:

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S̲h̲arḥ i Duʿāʾ i Suryānī, or, as in the Bānkīpūr catalogue, S̲h̲arḥ i Munājāt i Dāwud (beg. Baʿd i tamhīd i qawāʿid i maḥāmid … bandah i ḥaqīr Nak̲h̲s̲h̲abī (so in the Madras ms.), or as in the Bānkīpūr ms., al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā. wa-’l-ṣ … ammā baʿd bi-dān-kih ʿAbd Allāh i ʿAbbās. Beginning of the comments: Anā ’l-maujūd fa-’ṭlubnī tajidnī ’lk̲h̲ yaʿnī K̲h̲udāwand tabāraka … mīfarmāyad kih ai bandah c̲h̲ūn dānistī kih man Wājib al-wujūdam), by “Nak̲h̲s̲h̲abī”¹ i.e. Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Nak̲h̲s̲h̲abī, best known as the author of ¶ the Ṭūṭī-nāmah, who died in 751/1350 (see pl. iii nos. 422, 692 supra): Bānkīpūr xvi 1417 (18th cent.), Āṣafīyah i p. 60 no. 141, Madrās i 431, ii 552 (transcribed from the preceding ms.).

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Tuḥfat al-Saifīyah, a paraphrase prepared by Hārūn b. Sālim b. Tawakkul and dedicated to Sulṭān Saif al-Dīn Naṣr b. Tahamtan b. Sulṭān M. S̲h̲āh b. Tahamtan b. Gurdān-S̲h̲āh [probably the ruler of Hurmuz in 839/1435–6. See Sachau Verzeichnis Muhammedanischer Dynastien p. 24]: Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2079 (7) (17th cent.).

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S̲h̲arḥ i Duʿā-yi Suryānī (beg. Īn Duʿā-yi Suryānī i Ibn i ʿAbbās), a Persian metrical paraphrase with explanations, dedicated to Maḥmūd b. M. [Bēgarah], of Gujarāt (ah 863–917/1458–1511), by Yā-Sīn [b.?] Mūsā [b.?] Burhān: Ivanow 1323 (5) (early 18th cent.).

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S̲h̲arḥ i Duʿāʾ i Suryānī, by Ṣābir al-Dīn Muḥsin Edition (?): place? date? (Āṣafīyah i p. 60 no. 41²).

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Tarjamah i Duʿāʾ i Suryānī (beg. Manam maujūd, ai ṭālib, kujāʾī) a metrical paraphrase, possibly by Taqī (see below): Ivanow 1st Suppt 838 (2) (early 18th cent.), 847, 849 (11) (early 19th cent.), Manchester Mingana 226 (the poem preceded in this ms. by a metrical introduction beginning C̲h̲unīn guftand mā-rā ahl i isnād and containing the words Bi-k̲h̲wān miskīn Taqī aknūn duʿā-rā. Circ. ad 1750).

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(Tarjamah i Duʿāʾ i Suryānī), possibly one of those recorded above. Edition: Duʿāʾ i Suryānī, Lahore 1289/1872° (Arabic text with Panjābī and Persian metrical paraphrases).

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(Tarjamah i Duʿāʾ i Suryānī), possibly one of those recorded above. Editions: [Lahore?] 1289/1872° (pp. 58–67 in the Collection Nawad u nuh nām, Qaṣīdah i Burdah, Qaṣīdah i Bānat Suʿād, Qāṣīdah i G̲h̲aut̲h̲īyah, Duʿā-yi Suryānī, Qaṣīdah i Uwais i Qaranī, Duʿā-yi Mug̲h̲nī); Lucknow 1877° (pp. 58–67 in the same collection).

§ 704. Zain al-ʿĀbidīn ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusain al-Sajjād, the fourth Imam of the S̲h̲īʿites, died in 92/710–11 or 94/712–13 pl. iv no. 277 supra).

al-Ṣaḥīfat al-kāmilah, or al-Ṣaḥīfat al-Sajjādīyah, called Injīl i Ahl al-Bait, Zabūr i Āl i Muḥammad, and Uk̲h̲t al-Qurʾān, a collection of Arabic prayers and doxologies: i.ḥ. 2058, Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 76.

Persian Translations and commentaries:

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S̲h̲arḥ i Ṣaḥīfah i Sajjādīyah (beg. (without preface) al-Ḥ. l. al-Awwal Sitāyis̲h̲ mar K̲h̲udāy-rā kih pīs̲h̲ az hamah c̲h̲īz ast³), a translation and commentary of unknown authorship: Majlis ii 830 (ah 1071/1660–1), possibly ¶ also Mas̲h̲had ii fṣl. 8, mss. no. 113 (same beginning. ah 1050/1640–14), and Bānkīpūr xvi 1443 (same beginning. Described on title-page as Tarjamah i Mīr Hās̲h̲im bar Ṣaḥīfah i kāmilah. 19th cent.), 1444 (same work as the preceding ah 1226/1811).

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Tarjamah i Ṣaḥīfah i Sajjādīyah (beg. Yā ’llāh yā Samīʿ al-duʿā) by M. Ṣāliḥ b. M. Bāqir Qazwīnī maʿrūf bah Raug̲h̲anī,⁴ who says that he had previously⁵ written an Arabic commentary on the work as well as another Persian translation, in the latter of which the Arabic text of the prayers was not included: Majlis ii 825 (ah 1080/1669–70), Ethé 2597 (ah 1097/1686).

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Tarjamah i Ṣaḥīfah i kāmilah (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. hadānā li-hād̲h̲ā), a translation in simple Persian by the same M. Ṣāliḥ b. M. Bāqir Qazwīnī, who says that the public had found his Arabic commentary difficult and had not greatly liked his earlier Persian translation (and commentary) on account of the Arabic words that he had been obliged to use:⁶ Mas̲h̲had ii fṣl. 8, mss., no. 112 (ah 1134/1721–2).

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S̲h̲ifāʾ al-ṣudūr fī s̲h̲arḥ al-Zabūr, written in 1115/1703–4 by ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. S.M. al-Ḥusainī al-Mūsawī al-S̲h̲ahristānī: Āṣafīyah iii p. 24 no. 284 (ah 1117/1705–6).

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Tarjamah i Ṣaḥīfah i Sajjādīyah (beg. (without preface) al-Ḥ. l. al-Awwal Sitāyis̲h̲ mar K̲h̲udāy-rā kih pīs̲h̲ az hamah c̲h̲īz ast⁷), prepared in 1148/1735–6 by an unknown author: Mas̲h̲had ii fṣl. 8, mss., no. 41.

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Other translations: Bodleian iii 2786, Loth 334, Maʿārif i 33, 34.

§ 705. Abū Jaʿfar M. b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī, called S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Ṭāʾifah, whose works included the Tahd̲h̲īb al-aḥkām and the Istibṣār, two of the four canonical collections of S̲h̲īʿite traditions, as well as the Fihrist kutub al-S̲h̲īʿah, died in, or about, 460/1067–8 (see pl. iv no. 3 supra).

Misbāḥ al-mutahajjid al-ṣag̲h̲īr (beg. al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā. wa-’l-ṣ. alā k̲h̲airi) an abridgement of the author’s Miṣbāḥ al-mutahajjid al-kabīr, a collection of prayers and invocations for multiple occasions: i.ḥ. 2968.

¶ Persian commentary: S̲h̲arḥ i Miṣbāḥ al-mutahajjid [al-ṣag̲h̲īr] (beg. (without preface) al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā. wa-’l-ṣ…. Bi-dānīd raḥmat kunad s̲h̲umā rā K̲h̲udāy-taʿālā ba-durustī-kih dar ān-c̲h̲ih ʿamal kunī tu): Bānkīpūr xvi 1425 (ah 1168/1755).

§ 706. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī died at Bag̲h̲dād in 561/1166 (see pl. i no. 1251 2nd footnote).

al-Kibrīt al-aḥmar, a well-known Arabic prayer for the Prophet (see Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 778 no. 26).

Commentary: S̲h̲arḥ i Kibrīt i aḥmar (beg. Al-Ḥ. l. ’l. j. qulūba aṣfiyāʾihi. Beginning of the actual commentary: Allāhumma ’jʿal afḍala ṣalawātika abadan-Kalimah i Allāhumma dar aṣl yā ’llāhu būd), by Kamāl al-Dīn Sihālī [or Sihālawī], who died on 13 Muḥarram 1175/14 August 1761) and who was a pupil of Niẓām al-Dīn Sihālawī (see pl. i no. 1347): Bānkīpūr xvi 1441 (ah 1175/1762).

An anonymous and untitled tract dealing with the same prayer (beg. al-Ḥ. l. al-Ḥalīm al-Karīm) is Berlin 8 (11) (ah 1248/1832).

§ 707. M. b M. al-Jazarī, who died in 833/1429, has already been mentioned (pl. i no. 61) as the author of al-Muqaddimat al-Jazariyah.

al-Ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Saiyid al-mursalīn, an Arabic prayer-book (adʿiyah, aurād and ad̲h̲kār occurring in the Traditions, with directions for their use, etc.) completed in 791/1389: Ḥ. K̲h̲. iii p. 71, Brockelmann ii p. 203, Sptbd. ii p. 277.

(A) Persian translations:

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Tarjamah i Ḥiṣn i ḥaṣīn (beg. al-Ḥ. l. al-Wāḥid al-Fard al-Ṣamad), completed in 910/1505 by Abū Bakr b. M. Bharūc̲h̲ī⁸ for Sulṭān Maḥmūd S̲h̲āh [Bēgarah] b. M. S̲h̲āh of Gujrāt (ah 863–917/1458–1511): Bānkīpūr xvi 1418 (17th cent), Ethé 2641.

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Fatḥ al-mubīn: Peshawar 380 (ah 1093/1682).

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Tarjamah i Ḥisn i ḥaṣīn (beg. Allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Saiyid al-k̲h̲alq): Ivanow 992 (defective at end. Early 18th cent.).

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Tarjamah i Ḥiṣn i ḥaṣīn: Āyā Ṣūfiyah 4795 (1).

(B) Commentaries:

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S̲h̲arḥ i Ḥiṣn i ḥaṣīn (beg. Allāhumma laka ’l-hamdu ḥamd^an yuwāfī niʿamak), completed in 996/1587 at the k̲h̲ānaqāh of S. ʿAlī Hamadānī⁹ in Kas̲h̲mīr by Ḥājjī M. al-Kas̲h̲mīrī: Ethé 2642 ¶ (ah 1174/1760), Ivanow 993 (early 18th cent.), Bānkīpūr xvi 1419 (ah 1249/1833–4).’

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al-Ḥirz al-raṣīn, by Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn Muḥibb Allāh: Lucknow 1877° (on the margin of the Arabic text).

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S̲h̲arḥ i Ḥiṣn i haṣīn. Edition: place? date? (Āṣafīyah i p. 60 no. 109).

§ 708. Aḥmad b. M. Ibn Fahd al-Ḥillī died in 841/1437–8 (see Amal al-āmil p. 33, Luʾluʾatā ’l-Baḥrain p. 155, Muntahā ’l-maqāl p. 39, Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 20, Qiṣaṣ al-ʿulamāʾ p. 336 ult., Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 210).

ʿUddat al-dāʿī wa-najāḥ al-sāʿī, an Arabic work on prayer completed in 801/1399 and divided into a muqaddimah, six bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: i.ḥ. 2110, Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 210, Gotha Arab. Cat. ii no. 771 (1) (?).

Persian translations:

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Miftāḥ al-najāḥ (beg. St. u sp. i bī-q. ḥaḍrat i Qāḍī ’l-ḥājātī rā), prepared by ʿAlī b. Ḥasan al-Zawārī (for whom see pl. i no. 22 etc.): Mas̲h̲had ii fṣl. 8, mss., nos. 182 (ah 1055/1645), 183(ah 1089/1678), Āṣafīyah i p. 62 no. 45.

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Tarjamah i ʿUddat al-dāʿī (beg. Jawāhir i s̲h̲ukr u sipās nit̲h̲ār i Maʿbūdī), prepared by Naṣīr al-Dīn M. b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Anṣārī [al-Astarābādī]¹⁰ in the reign of S̲h̲āh Ṭahmāsp (according to the Būhār catalogue “at the desire of Qarâq K̲h̲ân, a noble of S̲h̲âh Ismâʿîl Ṣafawî i”): i.ḥ. 557, Būhār 191 (bears a note dated 1076/1665–6).

§ 709. M. b. Sulaimān al-Jazūlī,¹¹ the Moorish mystic who founded the Jazūliyah, a branch of the S̲h̲ād̲h̲ilī order, died in, or about, 870/1465–6 (see Ency. Isl under D̲j̲azūlī (M. Brockelmann ii 252, Sptbd. ii 359).

Dalāʾil al-k̲h̲airāt .., a well-known collection of Arabic prayers for the Prophet. Ḥ. K̲h̲. iii p. 235, Brockelmann ii p. 252, Sptbd. ii p. 359.

(A) Persian translations:

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Maʾāt̲h̲ir al-ṣalawāt, by Ḥifāẓat Ḥusain: Cawnpore 1303–4/1886–7° (D. al-k̲h̲. maʿa s̲h̲arḥihā M. al-ṣ., the latter consisting of interlinear Persian and Urdu translations).

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Dalāʾil al-k̲h̲airāt mutarjam: Cawnpore 1312/1895° (the Arabic text with interlinear Urdu and Persian translations and Urdu notes by Ḥāfiẓ M. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq).

(B) Commentaries:

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¶ Mazraʿ al-ḥasanāt (beg. Ḥ. u t̲h̲anāʾ i gūnāgūn), a Ṣūfī commentary written at least partly in 1133/1720–1 (incidentally mentioned as the current year, Bānkīpūr xvi 1439 fol. 87 b) by M. Fāḍil b. M. ʿĀrif Safīdanī [Safīdūnī?¹²] Dihlawī, who says that he had previously written an Arabic commentary on the work: Āṣafīyah iii p. 24 no. 273 (ah 1109/1697–8), i p. 62 no. 89 (ah 1147/1734–5), Ivanow 1st Suppt. 867 (mid 18th cent.), Ivanow 994 (late 18th cent.), Lindesiana p. 193 no. 673 (circ. ad 1770), Bānkīpūr xvi 1440 (ah 1211/1796), 1439 (19th cent.).

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S̲h̲arḥ i Dalāʾil al-k̲h̲airāt: Āṣafīyah i p. 60 no. 124.

§ 710. [ʿAbd?] al-Karīm b. Naṣīr al-Ḥanafī.

Jāmiʿ al-daʿawāt (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. jaʿala ’l-daʿawāt wasīlat^anli-l-duʿāt), a large collection completed apparently on 20 Ramaḍān 866/ 18 June 1462 and divided into a muqaddimah, fifty-three bābs, and a k̲h̲ātimah: Berlin 208.

A work of this title has been printed at Bombay 1343/1926* and at Lahore 1933*.

§ 711. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī al-Kafʿamī.¹³

Junnat al-amān al-wāqiyah wa-jannat al-īmān al-bāqiyah, known as Miṣbāḥ¹⁴ al-Kafʿamī, an Arabic work on prayers (daʿawāt) completed in 895/1490. i.ḥ. 781, Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 133.

Persian translations:

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Muʾnis al-ʿābidīn, or Tarjamah i Nīk-bak̲h̲tīyah, (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. jaʿala ’l-duʿāʾa d̲h̲arīʿat^an), composed in 1055/1645 (so Mas̲h̲had cat.) prepared by Mahmūd b. Mīrzā ʿAlī for Āqā Nīk-bak̲h̲tā: Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 32 (ah 1120/1708), Majlis i 21.

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Tarjamah i Miṣbāḥ i Kafʿamī (beg. al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā…. ammā baʿd c̲h̲ūn Miṣbāḥ i mansūb bah Kafʿamī), dedicated to Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭb-S̲h̲āh [ah 1020–35/1612–26. Cf. pl. i no. 1022] by Jamāl al-Dīn b. Fatḥ Allāh¹⁵ b. Ṣadr al-Dīn al-S̲h̲īrāzī: Bānkīpūr xvi 1420 (17th cent.), Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 38.

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Rāḥat al-arwāḥ tarjamat al-Miṣbāḥ, by Mīr M. Ḥusain Nahmān: Bombay 1324/1907* (Muẓaffarī Pr. 2 pts. 592 pp. In the margin al-Ṣaḥīfat al-kāmilah ¶ (cf. pl. iv no. 704 supra) with Persian translation. Cf. Āṣafīyah i p. 58 no. 46. Only Pt. ii (pp. 333–592) is in the i.o.).

§ 712. Ḥusain Kās̲h̲ifī died in 910/1504–5 (see pl. i no. 20 (where the Christian date should be corrected), 1195, etc.).

Tuḥfat al-ṣalawāt (beg. Aḥmaduka ’llāhumma wa-anta ’l-Maḥmūd), on the use of the formula Ṣallā ’llāhu ʿalaihi wa-sallam, completed in 899/1494 divided into a muqaddamah, eight faṣls and a k̲h̲ātimah: Ḥ. K̲h̲. ii p. 230, Flügel iii 1963 (3) (foll. 10a–11a. A short extract, apparently from faṣl 6. ah 949/1542–3), Bodleian iii 2795 (1) (defective. Old), Blochet i 63 (2) (early 18th cent.).

Abridgement: Intik̲h̲āb i Tuḥfat al-ṣalawāt (beg. Sp. u st. mar Pāds̲h̲āhī rā … a. b. numūdah mī-s̲h̲awad kih c̲h̲ūn ḥaḍrat i sulṭān S̲h̲āh Abū ’l-G̲h̲āzī Sulṭān Ḥusain), made, apparently by the author himself at the request of Sulṭān Ḥusain: i.o. 4623 (2) (17th cent. See jras. 1939 p. 388).

§ 713. Dūst-Muḥammad al-Ḥusainī.

Majmūʿah i adʿiyah (beg. S̲h̲ukr i bī-ḥadd u t̲h̲anā-yi bī-ʿadd mar ān Maʿbūdī-rā kih ʿibādatas̲h̲), a collection of prayers, especially for the months of Rajab, S̲h̲aʿbān and Ramaḍān, dedicated to Sulṭān Abū ’l- Muẓaffar Ṭahmāsp b. S̲h̲āh Ismāʿīl (reigned ah 930–84/1524–76) and divided into a muqaddimah and three bābs: Ethé 2570 (ah 1085/1674–5).

§ 714. Muḥammad al-Qāḍī b. Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn wrote in the reign of S̲h̲āh Ṭahmāsp (ah 930–84/1524–76).

K̲h̲ulāṣah i adʿiyah u aʿmāl i sāl (beg. al-Ḥ. l. al-Malik al-Qadīm), prayers etc., compiled from standard works like the Miṣbāḥ and the ʿUddat al-dāʿī (see pl. iv no. 708 supra): Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 57.

§ 715. Mīr M. Mahdī Riḍawī.

Zāʾirīyah (beg. S̲h̲arīftarīn kalāmī kih zāʾirān i muk̲h̲liṣ), on the visitation of the graves of the Imāms, especially Imām Riḍā, completed in 954/1547 for S̲h̲āh Ṭahmāsp i: Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss. no. 98.

§ 716. Abū ’l-Fadl b. Mubārak d. 1011/1602. (see pl. i no. 709, etc.).

Munājāt (beg. Ilāhī, Ilāhī, ba-har sū), preserved as the first manṭūqah in the Laṭīfah i Faiyāḍī see pl. iii no. 454 (3).

§ 717. Bahāʾ al-Dīn M. b. Ḥusain b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥārit̲h̲ī al-ʿĀmilī died at Iṣfahān in 1031/1622 (see pl. iii no. 256, etc.).

¶ Miftāḥ al-falāḥ, an Arabic work on religious observances (with Arabic prayers, etc.) for the several parts of the day and night, completed in 1015/1606 and divided into six chapters ((1) dawn to sunrise, (2) sunrise to midday, (3) midday to sunset, (4) sunset to bedtime, (5) bedtime to midnight, (6) midnight to dawn): i.ḥ. 3036, Brockelmann ii p. 414, Sptbd. ii p. 595.

Persian translations:

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Ādāb i ʿAbbāsī (beg. Taqdīs u tasbīḥ Pāds̲h̲āh i Qādirī-rā), prepared by the author’s contemporary¹⁶ and perhaps his pupil¹⁷ Ṣadrā (so in the preface as given in Sipahsālār i 26. Cf Āṣafīyah iii p. 24), or Ṣadr al-Dīn M. Tabrīzī (as he is called by other cataloguers): Āṣafīyah iii p. 24 no. 271 (ah 1077/1666–7), Sipahsālār i p. 13 no. 26 (ah 1078/1667–8), Būhār 193 (17th cent.), Calcutta Madrasah 113 (late 17th cent.), Bānkīpūr xvi 1421 (ah 1140/1727–8), 1422 (18th cent.), Mas̲h̲had ii fṣl. 8, mss., no. 48 (fragment).

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Tarjamah i Miftāḥ al-falāḥ (beg. Miftāḥ i falāḥ i dunyā), dedicated to S̲h̲āh Sulaimān¹⁸ (ah 1077–1105/1667–94) by Āqā Jamāl al-Dīn M. b. Ḥusain K̲h̲wānsārī, who died in 1125/1714 (see pl. i no. 33): Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, nos. 29 (acquired in 1085/1674–5), 47, Rieu Suppt. 8 (ah 1092/1681, transcribed from an autograph), Sipahsālār i p. 19 no. 33 (transcribed in translator’s lifetime), p. 33 no. 61 (2) (see p. 34¹), Bānkīpūr xvi 1430 (ah 1117/1705–6), 1431 (18th cent.), Būhār 194 (18th cent.), Majlis i 19 (ah 1243/1827–8), Cairo p. 517, Columbia Univ. N. Y. (see jaos. 49/3 (Sept. 1929) p. 222 no. 11).

Edition: Bombay 1304/1886–7 (see Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, Ptd. bks., no. 51).

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Tuḥfah i Nawwābīyah u hadīyah i uk̲h̲rawīyah (beg. Fawāʾid i laʾālī i ḥamd), an annotated and enlarged translation in a muqaddimah and nine bābs written for S̲h̲āh-zādah Bēgam, founder of the Madrasah i S̲h̲āhzādah-hā at Iṣfahān, by S. Abū ’l-Muẓaffar M. Jaʿfar Ḥusaini: Sipahsālār i p. 17 no. 32 (ah 1086/1675–6).

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Tarjamah i Miftāḥ al-falāḥ, prepared in 1273/1856–7 by ʿAbd al-Ṣamad K̲h̲ān: Āṣafīyah iii p. 24 no. 268 (ah 1274/1857–8).

§ 718. Mīr M. ʿAlī b. Nūr Allāh al-Ḥusainī al-Marʿas̲h̲ī al-S̲h̲ūs̲h̲tarī was a son of the well-known author or the Majālis al-muʾminīn (for whom see pl. i no. 1574). ¶ Several works of his, including a dīwān composed (or collected?) in 1035/1625–6, are preserved in the Bodleian ms. 1089.

S̲h̲arḥ i Duʿāʾ i mustajāb (beg. Marjiʿ i āyāt (read abyāt?) i daʿawāt i ijābat-āyāt), a commentary on an Arabic prayer in 100 verses beginning Ihdinā ’l-ṣirāṭa ’l-mustaqīma): Bodleian 1089 (9).

§ 719. Sirāj al-Dīn Ismāʿīl b. Maḥmūd Sind’hī S̲h̲aṭṭārī Qādirī, an inhabitant of Burhānpūr, had wandered extensively in different parts of India.

Mak̲h̲zan al-daʿawāt (beg. Ḥ. i bi-lā g̲h̲āyat u s̲h̲ukr i bi-lā nihāyat), a large work on prayers, devotional practices, etc., of the S̲h̲aṭṭārī dervishes, composed in 1037/1627–8 and divided into seven bābs: Āṣafīyah i p. 62 nos. 98 (ah 1061/1651), 90, Ivanow Curzon 437 (late 18th cent.), ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 20 no. 11.

§ 720. Zain al-ʿĀbidīn al-Ḥusainī.

Miṣbāḥ al-ʿĀbidīn (beg. Ḥ. u sp. Parwardgārī rā kih bandagī), prayers, invocations and other observances for particular months, days and other occasions, dedicated to S̲h̲āh Ṣafī (ah 1038–52/1628–42) and divided into a muqaddimah, twelve maṭlabs (one for each month) and a k̲h̲ātimah: i.ḥ. 2965, Bānkīpūr xvi 1424 (ah 1100/1689), 1423 (19th cent.), Berlin 207 A (acephalous. Modern), Būhār 195 (19th cent.).

§ 721. K̲h̲wājah Mīrzā Aḥsan Allāh “Aḥsan”, surnamed Ẓafar K̲h̲ān, b. Abū ’l-Ḥasan Turbatī, who was Governor of Kas̲h̲mīr and died in 1073/1662–3, has already been mentioned incidentally in this work (i p. 815 nn. 6, 11). It will be seen from the description given below that his share in the production of the Aḥsan al-daʿawāt was a small one.

Aḥsan al-daʿawāt (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. j. al-duʿāʾ … ammā baʿd bar hamginan ẓāhir ast kih … Aḥsan Allāh mulaqqab ba-Ẓafar K̲h̲ān), a collection of S̲h̲īʿite prayers put together in no particular order by Ẓafar K̲h̲ān, accompanied by Persian comments written for him by a number of scholars and preceded by a preface composed likewise at his request by a Persian visitor to India, ʿAlī Riḍā-yi Ḥusainī: Majlis ii 824.

§ 722. M. Muḥsin “Faiḍ” b. Murtaḍā Kās̲h̲ānī died after 1090/1679 (see pl. iv no. 66 supra).

K̲h̲ulāṣat al-ad̲h̲kār, an Arabic work containing prayers and invocations for the several hours of the day and night and other occcasions (wa-fīhi ashyāʾu lā tūjadu fī ’l-kutubi ’l-muʿtamadati fī ’l-adʿiyah, i.ḥ. 1058), composed in 1033/1623–4 and divided into a muqaddimah, twelve faṣls and a k̲h̲ātimah: Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 585, Majlis i 11, etc.

¶ Persian translations:

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Maḥbūb al-d̲h̲ākirīn (a chronogram = 1070/1659–60. Beg. S̲h̲ukr i bī-ḥadd u t̲h̲anāʾ i bī-ʿadad mar K̲h̲udāy-rā taʿālā s̲h̲aʾnuhu), prepared by Muḥsin’s pupil, M. S̲h̲afīʿ surnamed (al-mulaqqab bah) Najāt: Bānkīpūr xvi 1426 (ah 1122/1710).

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Tarjamah i K̲h̲ulāṣat al-ad̲h̲kār, prepared for S̲h̲. ʿAlī K̲h̲ān, a Wazīr, by S.M. b. Mahdī known as (maʿrūf bi-) Qiwām al-Dīn al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusainī [al-Saifī al-Qazwīnī], who completed in 1104/1692–3 a verification of Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī’s Zubdat al-uṣūl under the title Naẓm al-uṣūl (Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 581): Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 45 (acephalous).

§ 723. In 1067/1656–7 was composed:

Silāḥ al-ʿābidīn (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. jaʿala al-ṣalāta wa-’l-daʿawāti wasīlat^an), regulations concerning prayers, invocations and the like, divided into nineteen bābs and eighty faṣls: Ethé 2589 (ah 1150/1737).

§ 724. M. Ṣāliḥ “Raug̲h̲anī” Qazwīnī b. M. Bāqir completed in 1075/1664–5 at Mas̲h̲had a translation of the ʿUyūn ak̲h̲bār al-Riḍā (cf. pl. i no. 262, Persian translations (2), Sipahsālār i p. 225).

Risālah dar aḥkām i duʿāʾ (beg. Īn risālah īst dar aḥkām i mutaʿalliq bi-duʿā u dar awwal i kitāb [i.e. the Tarjamah i Ṣaḥīfah i Sajjādīyah] bi-ān waʿdah s̲h̲udah būd u akt̲h̲ar i īn fawāʾid az kitāb i Kāfī maʾk̲h̲ūd̲h̲ ast): Majlis ii 826 (ah 1080/1669–70), Maʿārif i 37.

§ 725. S. Mājid b. M. al-Ḥusainī al-Baḥrānī,¹⁹ fāḍil ʿālim jalīl al-qadr … wa-kānā s̲h̲āʿiran adīban muns̲h̲iʾan (Amal al-āmil p. 57²⁶, quoted in Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 541¹⁹. Cf. Nujūm al-samāʾ p. 141) was a Qāḍī at S̲h̲īrāz and afterwards at Iṣfahān.

¶ Fuṣūṣ i Sulaimānīyah (Durrat al-tāj i zīwar), an annotated translation of the Duʿāʾ i Bait al-maʿmūr (yā Man aẓhara ’l-jamīl, etc.) dedicated to S̲h̲āh Sulaimān Ṣafawī (1077–1105/1666–94): Sipahsālār i p. 44 no. 24 (ah 1092/1681).

§ 726. ʿAlī b. S̲h̲āh-Maḥmūd Bāfqī²⁰ is described by Iʿjāz Ḥusain as a contemporary of al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī (see pl. iv no. 78 supra). He was the author of a work on law entitled Majmaʿ al-wasāʾil (i.ḥ. 2751).

Minhāj al-falāḥ (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. dalla ʿibādahu ʿalā ’l-ṭāʿāt), a collection of prayers and invocations suitable for multiple occasions, especially ablution, purification and daily prayer, divided into a muqaddimah, ten bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: i.ḥ. 3182, Būhār 197 (ah 1061/1651).

§ 727. Ḥājjī M. b. M. Tabrīzī wrote in the time of S̲h̲āh Sulaimān (ah 1077–1105/1666–94).

Rauḍat al-ad̲h̲kār (beg. Laka ’l-ḥamd wa-’l-s̲h̲ukr yā Sāmiʿ al-duʿāʾ), a collection of prayers from the Traditions, completed in 1081/1670–1 and divided into a muqaddimah, twelve bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 63 (ah 1088/1677), Āṣafīyah i p. 58 no. 28.

§ 728. Faḍl i ʿAlī b. S̲h̲āh-wirdī was a contemporary of S̲h̲āh Sulaimān (1077–1105/1667–94).

Tabṣirat al-aʿyād, dar ādāb u mustaḥabbāt i aʿyād i maʾt̲h̲ūrah: Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 46 (acephalous. ah 1105/1693–4).

§ 729. Rustam K̲h̲ān b. Ṣafī-Qulī K̲h̲ān was, like his forefathers, in the service of the Ṣafawī house.

Miʿrāj al-muʾminīn (beg. Miʿrāj i pāyah i wālā-yi s̲h̲ukr-guzarī), supererogatory S̲h̲īʿite prayers dedicated to S̲h̲āh Sulaimān (ah 1077–1105/1667–94) and divided into a muqaddimah, six chapters called manhaj and a k̲h̲ātimah: D̲h̲arīʿah xxi p. 234 no. 4782, Rieu i 21 b(17th cent.).

§ 730. Ḥājj ʿAlī Aṣg̲h̲ar b. M. Yūsuf Qazwīnī was a pupil of K̲h̲alīl b. al-G̲h̲āzī al-Qazwinī (who died in 1089/1678: see Amal al-āmil p. 44³, Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 267²⁰) and he completed in 1103/1691–2 an Arabic supercommentary entitled Tanqīḥ al-marām on the latter’s commentary on M. b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī’s ʿUddat al-uṣūl (see Būhār Arab. cat. no. 148).

[Amal al-āmil p. 51¹¹; Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 413.]

¶ Safīnat al-najāt, known also as Maqālāt i k̲h̲ams (beg. S̲h̲. u sp. Karīmī rā sazad), a collection of prayers divided into a muqaddimah and five maqālahs ((1) dar aʿmāl i yaum u lailah, (2) dar aiyām i sabʿah, (3) dar aʿmāl i jamīʿ i auqāt i sanah, (4) dar aʿmāl i auqāt i muʿaiyanah, (5) dar waẓāʾif i ziyārāt): i.ḥ. 1663, Maʿārif i 30, Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 105, probably also Ethé 2569 (acephalous. Maqālah i preceded by part of the Muqaddimah).

Edition: Lucknow 1300/1883° (only Pt. 4 in b.m.).

§ 731. M Bāqir b. M. Taqī al Majlisī, who died in 1110/1698–9 or 1111/1699–1700, has already been mentioned as the author of the Ḥayāt al-qulūb (pl. i no. 247 (1)), the Jalāʾ (or Jilāʾ?) al-ʿuyūn (pl i no. 247 (2)) and other works.

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Miqbās al-maṣābīḥ (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. jaʿala al-ṣalāta li-l-muʾminīna miʿrāj^an), prayers (taʿqībāt al-ṣalāt) according to i.ḥ., i.e. presumably prayers for private use at the conclusion of the five daily services), extracted from the Biḥār al-anwār (cf. pl. i no. 278), explained in Persian, arranged in ten faṣls and dedicated to S̲h̲āh Sulaimān (ah 1077–1105/1667–94): i.ḥ. 3050, Rieu i 20 b (acephalous. 17th cent.), Ivanow 1st Suppt. 835 (ah 1156/1743), Āṣafīyah i p. 64 no. 30.

Edition: [Persia] 1311/1893–4 (Āṣafīyah iii p. 24).

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Muntak̲h̲ab i ad̲h̲kār u adʿiyah²¹ (beg. al-Ḥ. l…. Ba-sanad i muʿtabar az ḥaḍrat i Imām Jaʿfar i Ṣādiq), a brief treatise composed in 1078/1668 “on some special prayers and forms of d̲h̲ikr”: Ivanow 1118(6) (foll. 81b–88. ah 1101–3/1689–92)

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Rabīʿ al-asābīʿ (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. jaʿala yauma ’l-jumʿati), prayers for the several days of the week, especially Friday, completed in 1099/1688 and dedicated to S̲h̲āh Sulaimān: i.ḥ. 1146, Maʿārif i 27 (318 foll. Ornate ms.), Bānkīpūr xvi 1428 (defective and damaged. 19th cent.).

Edition: [Persia] 1312/1894–5 (Āṣafīyah iii p. 24).

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Risālah i adʿiyah i aiyām i haftah u māh²²: Āṣafīyah i p. 58 nos. 119, 121.

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Tuḥfat al-zāʾir (beg. Kabūtar i sitāyis̲h̲ī kih), on the ritual to be observed in visiting the graves of the Prophet and the Imāms, composed (completed?) in Ṣafar 1085/1674 and divided into a dībāc̲h̲ah, a muqaddimah, twelve bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: i.ḥ. 483, D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 438 no. 1588, Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., nos. 35, 36 (ah 1153/1740), 37 (ah 1257/1841), Sipahsālār i p. 15 nos. 31 (ah 1231/1816), 30 (ah 1253/1837), 29 (1262/1846), ¶ Majlis i 10(ah 1237/1821–2), Būhār 121 (ah 1243/1828. full analysis), Āṣafīyah i p. 54 no. 61, Berlin Oct. 2981 (Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 574⁵).

Editions: Tabrīz 1261/1845 (Mas̲h̲had ii fṣl. 8, ptd. bks., no. 52), 1262/1846 (ibid. no. 55); Ṭihrān 1261/1845 (ibid. no. 54); 1314/1896–7 (D̲h̲arīʿah, loc. cit.).

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Zād al-maʿād (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. jaʿala ’l-ʿibādata wasīlat^an), on religious observances (with Arabic²³ prayers) for multiple dates and occasions according to the practice of the Imāms, extracted from the Biḥār al-anwār (cf. pl. i no. 278), completed in 1107/1696, dedicated to S̲h̲āh Sulṭān-Ḥusain and divided into a muqaddimah, fourteen bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: i.ḥ. 1616, Būhār 198 (Ramaḍān 1107/1696, autograph²⁴), Cambridge 2nd Suppt. 54 (Ramaḍān 1107/1696, autograph²⁵), 55 (18th cent.), 53, 56, 99, Rieu i 21 a (a fragement, breaking off at fol. 16. Late 17th cent.), Ivanow 2nd Suppt. 1037 (ah 1115/1703), 1036 (early 18th cent.), 1038, Ivanow 1121 (18th cent.), Mas̲h̲had ii fṣl 8, mss., nos. 68–67 (of which 83 bears the earliest date, ah 1116/1704–5), Āṣafīyah i p. 58 nos. 144 (ah 1120/1708), 88, Maʿārif i 28 (collated in 1122/1710), 29 (with interlinear translation ah 1245/1829–30), Sipahsālār i pp. 30–34 nos. 57–62 (of which 57 is dated 1155/1742), Bānkīpūr xvi 1433 (ah 1166/1753. full analysis), 1434–8, Suppt. ii 2150 (Bābs vi–vii only), Lindesiana p. 192 no. 619 (circ. ad 1800), Majlis ii 829 (ah 1260/1844), ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 20 nos. 13–14, Berlin 210 (modern), 80 (2) (fragment), Ellis Coll. M 262 (19th cent.).

Editions: [Ṭihrān] 1244/1828° (cf. ras. cat.), [Persia] 1257/1841 (Āṣafīyah i p. 58 no. 186); [Tabrīz] 1282/1865°; Lucknow 1261/1845 (with Ḥilyat al-muttaqīn on margin. See Āṣafīyah iii p. 24 nos. 246–7); 1879°(Zād al-maʿād mutarjam maʿ Fatāwā-yi Ḥujjat al-Islām. Ed. Taṣadduq Ḥusain Kāẓimī Kintūrī); 1885° (same title. Ed. M. ʿAlī Kāẓimī Kintūrī). For some other editions see Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 573. The Tabrīz edition described as of 1272/1856 by Ellis seems to be the same as that described later (and therefore probably more correctly) by Edwards as of 1282/1865.

¶ § 732. M. Ṣaliḥ b. ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ al-Ḥusainī, a son-in-law of M. Bāqir Majlisī (for whom see pl. i no. 247), was still alive in 1116/1704–5.

[Qiṣaṣ al-ʿulamāʾ p. 243; Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 199, l. 3 from foot; Nujūm al-samāʾ p. 209.]

D̲h̲arīʿat al-najāḥ (beg. D̲h̲arīʿah i najāḥ i sar-gas̲h̲tagān), fī aʿmāl al-sanah, written, according to i.ḥ., fī ʿahd al-Sulṭān Sulaimān al-Mūsawī [i.e. presumably S̲h̲āh Sulaimān] and divided into a muqaddimah, twelve bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 199 penult., i.ḥ. 1136, Āṣafīyah i p. 56 no. 132 (ah 1110/1698–9), Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, mss., no. 62 (ah 1246/1830–1), Strassburg 18.

§ 733. M. Ṣādiq b. Aḥmad.

Nuk̲h̲bat al-daʿawāt (beg. al-Ḥ. l. Mujīb al-daʿawāt Mufīd al-k̲h̲airāt), a large S̲h̲īʿite collection in a muqaddimah, ten bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah composed in 1140/1727–8: i.ḥ. 3254, Mas̲h̲had ii, 8 nos. 211 (ah 1211/1796–7), 210 (ah 1275/1858–9), Bānkīpūr xvi 1445 (damaged. 19th cent. full analysis).

§ 734. S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Islām Mīr M. Husain b. M. Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ Ḥusainī K̲h̲ātūnābādī²⁶ Iṣfahānī, whose father has already been mentioned as the author of the D̲h̲arīʿat al-najāḥ (pl. iv no. 732 supra), was the son of a daughter of M. Bāqir Majlisī (for whom see pl. i no. 247). He became Imām-jumʿah at Iṣfahān and eventually S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Islām. He was put to death by Nādir S̲h̲āh (on 23 S̲h̲awwāl 1151/3 Feb. 1739 according to a statement recorded in a marginal note on p. 199 of the Rauḍāt al-jannāt) for refusing to give a fatwā that he desired. Among his works were (1) Manāqib al-fuḍalāʾ, a detailed ijāzah written at K̲h̲ātūnābād for Zain al-Dīn K̲h̲wānsārī at the time of the Afg̲h̲ān invasion [in 1134–5: see pl. i no. 1150 2nd par.] about which it contains much information as well as much biographical matter utilised by the author of the Rauḍāt al-jannāt, who possessed an autograph (see R. al.j. p. 199⁵), (2) Waqāʾiʿ al-sinīn, containing much biographical information and extant in an autograph ms. seen by Ibn Yūsuf, the compiler of the second volume of the Majlis catalogue, as well as more than a dozen others.

[Rauḍāt al-jannāt pp. 198–200; Nujūm al-samāʾ p. 210.]

K̲h̲azāʾin al-jawāhir al-sulṭānī [sic, according to the Majlis ms.] (beg. Jawāhir i k̲h̲azāʾin i t̲h̲anāʾī-kih), a collection of prayers etc. divided (according to the preface) into a fātiḥah, twelve k̲h̲azīnahs (one for each month evidently) and a k̲h̲ātimah, but never finished: Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 199¹¹ (where it is stated that only a few months remained untreated): ¶ Majlis ii 829 (fātiḥah and first four k̲h̲azīnahs (Rajab, S̲h̲aʿbān, Ramaḍān, S̲h̲awwāl) only. 18th cent.)

§ 735. In 1192/1778 was composed:

ʿUmdat al-daʿawāt: Āṣafīyah i p. 62 no. 32 (ah 1254/1838).

§ 736. M. b. ʿAlī Aṣg̲h̲ar Ṭūsī.

Tad̲h̲kirat al-ʿābidīn, prayers and devotions for each month of the year, completed in 1240/1824: Maʿārif i 25 (388 foll. ah 1258/1842).

§ 737. S. M. Ḥasan b. ʿAskarī al-Ḥasanī al-Simnānī.

Minhāj al-ʿārifīn (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. k̲h̲alaqanā li-jūdihi), a very large collection of prayers completed in 1248/1832–3 at the desire of S̲h̲āh-zādah Bahman Mīrzā Bahāʾ al-Daulah (for whom see pl. i no. 1205 1st par., last footnote): Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8 no. 155 (ah 1251/1835–6)

Editions: mukarrar^an ba-ṭabʿ rasīdah according to the Mas̲h̲had catalogue.

§ 738. M. K̲h̲ān b. M. Karīm al-Kirmānī died in 1324/1906 (see pl. iv nos. 223, 543 supra).

Muntak̲h̲ab al-daʿawāt, written in 1292/1875. Edition. place? 1320/1902–3 (Āṣafīyah iii p. 24 no. 245).

§ 739. S. M. Riḍā b. Ismāʿīl Mūsawī S̲h̲īrāzī was born in 1223/1808 and died in Tihrān in 1300/1883.

Jāmiʿ al-daʿawāt al-munjī min al-halakāt, charms, incantations, etc.: Tihrān [in the author’s lifetime according to D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 52 no. 204].

§ 740. Al-Ḥājj Mīrzā Abū ’l-Faḍl b. Abī ’l-Qāsim Tihrānī.

S̲h̲ifāʾ al-ṣudūr fī s̲h̲arḥ ziyārat al-ʿĀs̲h̲ūr, composed in 1309/1891–2. Edition: Bombay 1309–10/1893° (cf. Āṣafīyah iii p. 24).

§ 741. Appendix

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Aurād i Qādirīyah (beg. al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā. ḥamda ’llad̲h̲īna waffaqahumu ’llāhu), prayers for the several hours of the day and night, in eleven short bābs, being an extract from the Aurād i Qādirīyah i S̲h̲aṭṭārīyah of S̲h̲. M. b. Ibrāhīm al-Qādirī (perhaps identical with the author of the K̲h̲ulāṣat al-daʿawāt mentioned below): Bodleian 1771 (n.d.).

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Ḍiyāʾ al-qulūb, by Maulawī Imdād Allāh: Āṣafīyah i p. 62 no. 116.

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Kanz al-asrār i Nūrīyah dar aurād i muwaẓẓafah by Nūr ʿAlī-S̲h̲āh? [(M. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Ḥusain Raqqī Ṭabasī Iṣfahānī) died 1212/1797–8, cf. ¶ pl. iv no. 437 supra. v.s.]. Edition: Tihrān 1283/1866–7 (the 7th work in a majmūʿah entitled Maʿārif al-ʿawārif. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 353).

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Kanz al-irs̲h̲ād, by Mīr Turāb ʿAlī: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 21 no. 28.

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K̲h̲ulāṣat al-daʿawāt fī taʿqīb al-ṣalawāt (beg. al-Ḥ. l…. wa-baʿdu fa-inna ’l-wālida adāma ’llāhu wujūdahu), on the duty of saying special prayers additional to the ordinary daily worship with set forms for the several hours of the day and night, by Ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (i.e. presumably Ibrāhīm b. M.²⁷): Bodleian 1773 (ah 1026/1617)

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Maʿārij al- aʿmāl: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ mss. p. 20 no. 8.

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Manhaj al-daʿawāt: Āṣafīyah i p. 64 no. 12.

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Maṭlūb al-zāʾirīn (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. Huwa Muʿṭī ’l-sāʾilīn), a S̲h̲īʿite work written at the request of M. Raḥīm K̲h̲ān S̲h̲īrāzī by S. Jawād b. S. Mujtabā al-Ḥusainī al-Musawī al-Ḥāʾirī al-s̲h̲ahīr bi- Rauḍah-k̲h̲wān: Bānkīpūr xvi 1447(ah 1201/1786–7).

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Miftāḥ al-jinān, by M. Majīd²⁸: Lindesiana p. 194 no. 756 (ah 1126/1714).

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Miftāḥ al-najāt, by Niẓām: Āṣafīyah i p. 64.

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Muntak̲h̲ab al-aʿmāl, by M. Muqīm²⁹: Āṣafīyah i p. 64 no. 138 (defective at both ends), [ii p. 1188 no. 62 (ah 1269–1852–3), in section on Fiqh. v.s.]

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Niẓām al-qulūb: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 21 no. 31 (defective).

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Risālah i adʿiyah, a collection of Arabic prayers and charms with Persian introductions relating to the origin of the prayer, its virtues and directions for its use (one of them being the Tuḥfat al-Saifīyah mentioned above, no. 703 (2)): Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2079 (where details of the prayers are given. Beautiful ms. once in the possession of Sulṭān Muhammad Quṭb-S̲h̲āh (ah 1020–35/1611–25). 17th cent.).

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Ṣaḥāʾif al-aʿmāl (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. amaranā bi-iqāmati ’l-ṣalāti), S̲h̲īʿite prayers, invocations and observances connected with the five daily prayers, the days of the week, the months, etc., written for persons ignorant of Arabic and divided into a fāṭiḥah, three ṣaḥīfahs and a k̲h̲ātimah, by Ḥaidar b. Niʿmat Allāh al-Ṭabasī: Bānkīpūr xvi 1442 (defective at end. 19th cent.), probably also Mas̲h̲had ii, fṣl. 8, no. 150 (ah 1068/ 1657–8).

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S̲h̲ams al-aʿmāl (beg. Bi-smi ’llāh … Īn risālah i mutabarrakah kih musammā bi-S̲h̲. al-aʿ mus̲h̲tamil ast bar muqaddimah …), on the special monthly prayers and charms for various occasions: Princeton 144 (ah 1271/1855).

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¶ S̲h̲arḥ i Duʿāʾ i bād i surk̲h̲³⁰ (beg. Wahb b. Munabbih riwāyat kunad az Muqātil. Beginning of Arabic text: Bi-smi ’llāh wa-’llāhu akbar aiyuhā ’l-malakān al-akbarān): Blochet i 159 (2) (ah 877/1472).

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Tad̲h̲kirat al-mutahajjidīn: Āṣafīyah i p. 54 no. 176.

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Uṣūl al-uṣūl (beg. Fātiḥah i kalām i haqīqat-intiẓām), a Sunnī collection of prayers and invocations: Ethé 2599 (ah 1119/1707–8).

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Yawāqīt i mans̲h̲ūrah [mant̲h̲ūrah?], by M. G̲h̲aut̲h̲ b. Nāṣir al-Dīn M. [b.?] Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad Nāʾiṭī:³¹ Āṣafīyah i p. 62 no. 47.

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Zubdat al-aʿmāl, by S. ʿAlī Naqī: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 20 no. 16.

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Zubdat al-daʿawāt (beg. yā Ḥabība ṣifwati ’l-muttaqīn), an anonymous collection of S̲h̲īʿite prayers in a muqaddimah, four faṣls and a k̲h̲ātimah: Ivanow 1st Suppt. 834 (ah 1065/1654), Ethé 2973 (ah 1133/1721).

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