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al-Nafaḥāt al-aqdasīyah fī sharḥ al-ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah : manuscript
Creator
بيطار، بهاء الدين، 1848 أو 1849-1910 أو 1911.
Title
al-Nafaḥāt al-aqdasīyah fī sharḥ al-ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah : manuscript / Muḥammad Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-Bīṭār al-Shāmī al-Maydānī.
النفحات الأقدسية في شرح الصلوات الأحمدية الإدريسية : مخطوطة / محمد بهاء الدين البيطار الشامي الميداني.
Production
Place not identified, 1906.
Physical Description
1 volume (182 leaves) ; 24 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from folio 2a.
Author's name from reference sources and the printed versions.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit (folio 1b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Naḥmaduka Allāhumma, yā man ṣallá ʻalá Muḥammad bi-fayḍ dhātih, wa-kān mujlá la-hu fī jamīʻ tajalliyātih, fa-huwa rūḥ Allāh al-manfūkh fī ṣūrat Ādam, wa-ṭāmmat al-ḥaqāʼiq al-kubrá li-sāʼir al-ʻālam, fa-lā yaṣil wāṣil illā ilayh, wa-lā yahtadī ḥāʼir illā bi-hi fīhi ʻalayhi, wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh, wa-lā mawjūd fī hādhā al-wujūd illā īyāh, wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam, insān ʻayn dhātih wa-sirr imdādatih ..."
البداية (ظهر الورقة 1): "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم، وبه نستعين. نحمدك اللهم، يا من صلى على محمد بفيض ذاته، وكان مجلى له في جميع تجلياته، فهو روح الله المنفوخ في صورة آدم، وطامة الحقائق الكبرى لسائر العالم، فلا يصل واصل إلّا إليه، ولا يهتدي حائر إلّا به فيه عليه، وأشهد أن لا إله إلّا الله، ولا موجود في هذا الوجود إلّا إيّاه، وأشهد أن محمدًا، صلى الله عليه وسلم، إنسان عين ذاته وسر إمدادته ..."
Secundo folio: ghayr dhawī al-ilmām min jumlat al-khafīyāt.
بداية الورقة الثانية: غير ذوي الإلمام من جملة الخفيات.
18.5 x 24 cm; written surface: 13 x 19 cm; 21 lines per page.
Binding: In marbled cardboard with dark red leather on spine.
In clear naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings and markings in red; catchwords.
On a label pasted to the back of the front cover are handwritten notes in English about the book and its author.
On folio 1b: "... fa-qad amaranī ... Sayyidī wa-Ustādhī ... al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Dandarāwī an ashraḥa al-Ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah ..."
على ظهر الورقة 1: "... فقد أمرني ... سيدي وأستاذي ... الشيخ محمد الدندراوي أن أشرح الصلوات الأحمدية الإدريسية ..."
On folio 2a: "... wa-sammaytuhu al-Nafaḥāt al-aqdasīyah fī sharḥ al-ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah ..."
على وجه الورقة 2: "... وسمّيته النفحات الأقدسية في شرح الصلوات الأحمدية الإدريسية ..."
Colophon: "Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām, wa-nasʼaluhu, subḥānuhu wa-taʻālá, ḥusn al-khitām. Katabahu al-ʻabd al-faqīr Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥasan ʻUyūn al-Nābulusī, khādim Ṭarīqah [al-Ṭarīqah] al-Rashīdīyah / 8 Ṣafar, sanat 324 [1324], wa-20 Māris, sanat 322 [?]."
الخاتمة: "والحمد لله على التمام، ونسأله، سبحانه وتعالى، حسن الختام. كتبه العبد الفقير محمد سعيد بن حسن عيون النابلسي، خادم طريقة [الطريقة] الرشيدية / 8 صفر، سنة 324 [1324]، و20 مارس، سنة 322 [؟]."
Translation of the colophon: "Praise be to God on the completion. We ask Him, may He be praised and glorified, to grant us a favorable end. Copied by the poor Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥasan ʻUyūn al-Nabulusī, servant of the Rashīdīyah Order, on 8 Ṣafar, the year 324 [1324 of the Hijrah = 3 April 1906], and 20 March 322 [?]."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
"al-Nafaḥāt al-aqdasīyah fī sharḥ al-ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah" (Sacred breezes, a commentary on the prayers of Aḥmad ibn Idrīs), a treatise on Sufi prayers and devotions by Muḥammad Bahāʼ al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Bīṭār al-Shāmī al-Maydānī (1848 or 1849-1910 or 1911), an author from Damascus (Syria), where he was born and died, a Sufi who read and wrote about several subjects, mostly Sufism, being a commentary on a collection of Sufi prayers attributed to Aḥmad ibn Idrīs (1749-1837), a Sufi scholar and founder of the Aḥmadīyah Sufi order in North Africa, originally from Fès (Morocco), who lived in Mecca for thirty years and died in Yemen. The author wrote his book on the order of his teacher al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Dandarāwī (could not be identified). Copied on 8 Ṣafar 324 (1324) of the Hijrah (3 April 1906), by Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥasan ʻUyūn al-Nabulusī, servant of the Rashīdīyah Sufi Order. Place of copying not mentioned.
Variant and related titles
Sharḥ al-ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah
شرح الصلوات الأحمدية الإدريسية
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Archives or Manuscripts
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January 08, 2021
References
Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-Bīṭār, al-Nafaḥāt al-aqdasīyah fī sharḥ al-ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-Bīṭār, al-Nafaḥāt al-aqdasīyah fī sharḥ al-ṣalawāt al-Aḥmadīyah al-Idrīsīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Manuscripts, Arabic - 20th century.
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