مفاتيح الغيب ... [الخ.]

Mafātīḥ al-ghayb ... [etc.].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Arabic
  • Persian
Published/​Created
[17--]
Description
101 leaves : paper ; 175 x 116 (145-150 x 83-88) mm bound to 184 x 121 mm

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    Summary note
    Collection of Shiʻite texts.
    Notes
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 101 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 19 lines per page.
    • Description: Persian texts written in nastaʻlīq, Arabic texts in general script ; rubricated ; first leaf is detached, damp staining across top of MS and some marginal paper repairs, some loss of text on last leaf due to paper loss and staining.
    • Origin: Likely 18th century.
    • Incipit: [مفاتيح الغيب] الحمد لله الذي لا يعلم خير عباده سواه ومن استخاره هداه -- [ترجمة حديث] الحمد لله ... اما بعد شيخ صدوق ... در کتاب توحيد و کتاب عيون اخبار رضا ... بسند صحيح روايت کرده است -- [رسالة في الزكاة] الحمد لله ... بدانكه زكوة در نه چيز واجب ميشود-- [الكفارات] الحمد لله ... اما بعد کفاره بر دو نوع است اول کفارات احرام حج و عمره و انهار در رساله حج بيان کرده ام دويم ساير کفارات است -- [مال الناصب] الحمد لله ... شيخ طوسى رضى الله عنه در تهذيب بسند مختلف فيه از معلى بن خنيس -- [شرح الزيارة] بعد از اداى وظايف ستايش خالق برايا و مر اسم درود سرور اصفيا -- [اجوبة عن اسئلة] هذه مسائل سئل عنها الاخ العزيز ... الشوشترى ... اما بعد انا السائل المعيل اسئلك للحاجة لا لغيرها-- [نبذ من احكام] نبذ من احكام سجود التلاوة كتبه الشيخ ... سجدات القرآن خمس عشرة اربع منها واجبة-- [اسرار الصلوة] الحمد لله مطلع من اختاره ... و بعد فان روح السعادة -- [شكوك الصلاة] الحمد لله الذي ازاح ظلمات الشبهات والشكوك والاوهام عن مناهج المسايل والاحكام بشريعة سيد الأنام ودرايات اهل بيته الكرام
    Binding note
    Limp dark brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; spine repaired.
    Language note
    Arabic and Persian;
    Script
    Nastaʻlīq.
    Contents
    • 1. leaves 1b-31b: Mafātīḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī. Treatise on the istikhārah prayer. Text completed Ramaḍān 1104 H [1692 or 1693].
    • 2. leaves 31b-34b: [Tarjamat ḥadīth al-jabr wa-al-tafwīḍ] / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī. Translation and explanation of the ḥadīth which begins "Inna Allāh ʻazz wa-jalla lam yuṭaʻ bi-ikrāh."
    • 3. leaves 34b-37a: [Risālah fī al-zakāh] / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.
    • 4. leaves 37a-40a: [al-Kaffārāt] / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.
    • 5. leaves 40b-44b: [Māl al-nāṣib] / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī. Treatise concerning the property of those who oppose ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
    • 6. leaves 44b-49b: Sharḥ al-ziyārah al-maʼthūrah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Riḍā al-Qummī. Title from leaf 49b, line 14. Text completed Rajab 1085 H. in Mashhad. Translation and explanation of the ziyārah during the month of Rajab.
    • 7. leaves 49b-51b: [Ajwibah ʻan asʼilat Majd al-Dīn Shūshtarī]. Answers to ten questions on theology and law, perhaps by Mīr Dāmād [died 1040/1630].
    • 8. leaves 51b-52a: Nubadh min aḥkām sujūd al-tilāwah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Extract concerning prostration while reading the Qurʼān.
    • 9. leaves 52a-54a: [Ḥadīth on the eight doors of heaven and hell].
    • 10. leaves 54b-87a: Asrār al-ṣalāh / al-Shahīd al-Thānī. Treatise on prayer. Text completed on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 951 H [21 February 1545] (leaf 87a).
    • 11. leaves 87a-101b: [Shukūk al-ṣalāh] / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī. Treatise on doubt and forgetfulness during prayer. Text completed on 19 Shaʻbān 1111 H [9 February 1700] (leaf 101b).
    References
    Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936-), XXI, 303 (no. 5195); IV, 96 (no. 442); XII, 41 (no. 235); XVIII, 86 (no. 804); XIX, 27 (no. 137)
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    Other title(s)
    • Ajwibah ʻan asʼilat Majd al-Dīn al-Shūshtarī.
    • اجوبة عن اسئلة مجد الدين الشوشتري.
    OCLC
    704441137
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