Dalāʼil al-khayrāt... [etc.]; دلائل الخيرات... [إلخ]

Name:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465; ʻAbd al-Salām bin Mashīsh, 1163?-1225?; Abū Madyan, -1197 or 1198; Barzanjī, Jaʻfar ibn Ḥasan, -1763 or 1764; Dasūqī, Ibrāhīm, 1255-1296; Dimyāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Aybak, -1348; Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240; Sammān, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, 1718-1775; Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1711

Description:

Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muḥammad and other devotional materials such as a description of his tomb and lists of his names and honorary epithets, divided into 60 sections to be read daily over 2 months. This copy has been reworked a number of times and contains numerous other texts copied after Dalāʼil al-khayrāt and in the margins. The marginal works are for the most part prayers. 17 leaves seem to be a later addition to the end of the original codex and contain two poems and other texts. A table of contents (f. 2v), also added later, lists most of the main texts and some of the marginal texts. The contents listed below are main texts, then marginal texts.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by William Camac; bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania in the Camac Memorial Collection, received in 1904.; Camac, William, 1829-1900, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex44.html

Subject:

Islam -- Prayers and devotions; Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 Companions; Muḥammad, Prophet, -632; Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800; Prayer -- Islam -- Early works to 1800; Prayer -- Islam; Islam

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); miniatures (paintings); prayers (compositions); devotional literature; illustrated works (documents)

Physical Description:

179 leaves : paper, illustrations, illuminations; 182 x 102 (124 x 56) mm bound to 184 x 118 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Pictorial works; Medina (Saudi Arabia) -- Pictorial works; Saudi Arabia -- Mecca

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title of main text, in introduction (f. 4r).; Table of contents: 1. f. 2r: Table of Contents -- 2. f. 3v-101r: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt / Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī -- 3. f. 101r-103v: Asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná -- 4. f. 103r-118v: Asmāʼ ahl Badr -- 5. f. 118v-126r: Asmāʼ al-ṣaḥābah al-Uḥudīn -- 6. f. 126r-126v: Nasab al-nabī al-mukarram -- 7. f. 126v-127r: Asmāʼ ahl al-kahf -- 8. f. 127r: Mukhallafat al-nabī -- 9. f. 127r-130v: Jālīyat al-kurab / Muḥammad al-Sammān -- 10. f. 130v-139v: Istighfārat al-ʻalamī -- 11. f. 135r-139v: [Account of Muḥammad ʻAqīlah's trip to Mecca and Medina] -- 12. f. 139v-153v : Ḥizb al-sirr al-maṣūn -- 12. f. 153v-157v: Asmāʼ al-rusul -- 13. f 158r-162r: [Fragments in several different hands] -- 14. 163v-168v: Jālīyat al-kadar / Jaʻfar ibn Ḥasan al-Barzanjī -- 15. 169r-170v: [Lāmīyah] / Aḥmad ibn Aybak al-Dimyāṭī --16. f. 171v: Qaṣīdah / Abū Madyan -- 17. f. 172v-174r: Qurʼān passages copied in separated letters -- 18. f. 174r-175v: Prayer -- 19. f. 175r-178v: Selections from Ḥadīth -- 20. f. 179r: Recipe.; Table of contents: Marginal works: 1. f. 3v-13v: Ḥizb al-sirr lil-Shaykh al-Shādhalī -- 2. f. 14r-25v: Minḥah al-Muḥammadīyah -- 3. f. 25v-49v: Sūrat al-Anʻām -- 4. f. 49v-53r: Ḥizb al-Nūrī -- 5. f. 53r-56v: Ḥizb al-baḥr / Shādhilī -- 6. f. 56v-62r: Mimmā yuqraʼu ṣabāhan -- 7. f. 62r-63v: Duʻāʼ mubārak aẓīm -- 8. f. 63v-68r: [Ḥizb al-wiqāyah] / Ibn al-ʻArabī -- 9. f. 68v-75v [Prayers] / ʻAbd al-Qā̄dir al-Kīlānī -- 10. f. 75v-78r: Ḥizb al-naṣr / Shādhilī -- 11. f. 78v-80r: [Prayers] -- 12. f. 80v-82r: [Prayer] / ʻAbd al-Salām al-Mashīsh -- 13. f. 82v-86v: Ḥizb al-ṭamis / Ibrahīm al-Dasūqī -- 14. f. 86v-110v: Awrād al-usbūʻ / Ibn al-ʻArabī -- 15. f. 111r-126v: Munfarijah -- 16. f. 127r: [Prayer] / Ibn al-ʻArabī -- 17. f. 127v-130r: [Story of Qūt al-Qulūb] -- 18. f. 130v: [Prayer] -- 19. f. 132r-134v: Sūrat Yā Sīn -- 20. f. 135r-140r: [Various fragments in different hands].; Foliation: The table of contents gives folio numbers, though the folios themselves are only sporadically numbered in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto. Modern continuous foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.; Layout: 11 long lines border-ruled with 12-13 marginal lines at angles mostly along the outside long edge.; Script: Written in several different styles of naskh in black ink.; Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in gold and black; page opening ruled in black. Two full-page polychrome illustrations of Mecca (f. 15v) and Medina (f. 16r). Polychrome headpieces in gold, red, blue, orange (f. 3v, 17v). Rubrications in red; some headings in white ink on gold background with blue.; Binding: Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers are brown leather blind stamped with double-line frame, mandorla, two pendants along the vertical axis and cornerpieces; flap has coordinating stamp. Green marbled paper doublure on flap and hinge.; Origin: Copy is not dated, but the compiler refers to a visit to Mecca that his teacher, Muḥammad ʻAqīlah, took at the beginning of Shawwal, 1123 (November, 1711) (f. 135v).; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 44