نسخہ ہای خطی ’’خزانہ جلالیہ ‘‘مصنفہ سید جلال الدین حسین بخاری: تعارف و تحلیل

Abstract

The codicological contours of the South Asian malfūẓāt tradition remain unevenly charted, and the Suhrawardī compendium Khazāna Jalāliyya (strictly Khazānat al-fawāʾid al-Jalāliyya) exemplifies how entrenched bibliographic assumptions can obscure a work’s actual architecture. While earlier catalogues uniformly list the text as a single volume of seventeen chapters, a synoptic collation of three manuscript witnesses—the Mīrān Shāh copy (790/1388), the Ganj copy (933/1526), and an acephalous Markaz copy (908/1502)—compels a thoroughgoing corrective. Reading internal colophons against contemporaneous tazkirahs reveals that the work is, in fact, structured around a muqaddima and twenty thematic chapters, deliberately distributed across two discrete volumes (eleven and nine chapters respectively). Concomitantly, the investigation rectifies the author’s onomastic record, establishing that the saint’s given name was Hussain and that Jalāl al-Dīn served merely as a title, while a granular sifting of the prolegomena reconstructs his patrilineage, extensive riḥla, and intellectual genealogy. The scribal identity of the compiler, Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb Bhaṭṭī—who captured the oral counsels between 752 and 767 AH before ordering them in 790 AH—is substantiated, dismantling persistent cataloguing errors and providing the stemmatic groundwork indispensable for a critical edition. Restoring the precise chapter division not only revises the textual façade of a key source for Suhrawardī piety but also illuminates how Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahāngasht’s spontaneous guidance on ritual, ethics, and inner discipline was deliberately reshaped into a bipartite didactic handbook, a vade mecum for aspirants. This corrective reading consequently refines scholarly purchase on the pedagogical machinery through which eighth/fourteenth-century South Asian Sufism transmitted embodied authority.