
1922.) The Sources of Jami’s Nafahat. 391 
apparently from Yafi‘i and Hujwiri. The number of such 
insertions is not large in the text corresponding to the first 
half of the Tabagat, but in the second they are so numerous, 
and are so often made hap-hazardly, that the integrity of the 
original work is entirely broken. It seems however that there 
are only a few names in the Tabaqgat which do not reappear in 
Jami’s book, and so one may conclude that in spite of the 
great confusion the text of Ansari’s work is reproduced almost 
entirely. The omissions consist chiefly of quotations of Arabic 
poetry, of moral reflexions connected with the anecdotes, as 
well as of some opinions of Ansari which Jami apparently did 
not share. 
The information which Jami did not appreciate and 
usually omits in his book often contains references to early 
Sufic literature. The learned Ansari undoubtedly took a great 
interest in it and probably read much of what he mentions. 
These books, of which only a few are extant nowadays, may 
be regarded as the sources of the Tabagat and therefore, in- 
directly, of the Nafahat. For this reason it seems desirable to 
enumerate them here, and this list, based on the information 
of such a competent and trustworthy person as the Pir o 
Herat may be of some use to the students of Sufic literature. 
Unfortunately Ansari is very often not quite accurate in 
his quotation of titles, and sometimes it is impossible to decide 
whether he has perused the works mentioned, or not. This is 
a list of the treatises, arranged chronologically. 
- ‘Abdu’l-lah Nibajt, a saint of the beginning of the IIIc. 
A.H., an associate of Dhi’n-Nan Misri (cf. Nafahat, pp. 101- 
102, and Luma‘, ed. R Nicholson, preface, p. » <.D° Fae eh | 
4) US is mentioned (fol. 59): coy 5! Y2yF O85 AUS mole Ue 5! 
2. Ahmad 6. Abi’l-Hawari, d. 230 A.H. (cf. Nafakat, 
P. 72), or between 230 and 246 A.H. (see Luma’, ibid.). One 
of his books is referred to without title (f. 64v), and the Shaykh 
had perused it: poe corlestt cool dem! GUS yo. 
3. Harith b. Asad Mubasibi, a. 243 A-H. (Us= =! 5! oe 
Je sou ag Ansari says. Brockelmann, Gesch. d. Ar. Lit., vol. 
tp. 198, gives the date of his death as 213 A.H.). Besides 
# general notice of his literary works (f. 24), the titles of two 
of his treatises are given (ibid.): Wi) ~W probably an inac- 
curate reproduction of ile ot ouolie (Cairo, II, 87), mentioned 
by Brockelmann, loc. cit., and 2s US, apparently the same 
AS Kowa! Sdr irae! cr* (Brock., ibid., Ahlwardt Cat., No- 
Shah Shuja‘ Kirmani, d. between 270 and 300 A.H. 
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4. 
The whole complex of stories about this princely saint seems 
