Hādhā kitāb Kurūm ʻarāyis al-tahānī sharḥ Ṣalawāt Ibn Mashīsh al-Dānī / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Fāḍil al-Ṣūfī al-Humām al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Khalwatī : manuscript, 1840

Author's own abridgement of his longer commentary on Moroccan sufi Ibn Mashīsh's prayer book known as Ṣalawāt. Longer version is titled: Rawḍāt al-ʻarshīyah fī al-kalām ʻala al-Ṣalawāt al-Mashīshīyah.

Title from ff. 1r and 2v.

الحمد لله العلي المحمود بكل المحامد العليه والصلاة والسلام على النبي المحمود ذي المقاصد السنيه... :Incipit

Written in a naskh hand in black ink, 13 lines per page; some phrases and the text commented upon in red. Marginal notes and corrections on some pages are in hand of the copyist. There are catchwords on the verso of each leaf. The text is framed within double red lines. Headpiece (f. 2r).

Date from colophon (f. 57v) which also names the copyist as Muḥammad ibn Saʻd al-Dīn al-Asadī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī. The ms. was probably copied in Egypt.

The book is followed by two short prayer books and a poem by Shaykh Raḍīwī al-Miṣrī al-Ṣaʻīdī al-Farshūṭī, written in the same hand: Ḥizb al-lāmiʻ (ff. 57v-64v) -- al-Ṣalawāt (ff. 64v-68r) -- Manẓūmah (f. 68v).

Glazed paper. 18.5 x 13.8 cm. (13.8 x 7.7 cm.).

Bound in half leather with flap.

MS Arab 123. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

In Arabic.