1922.] The Sources of Jami’s Nafahat. 399 
sukhanan-t-Shaykh Abi Sa‘id, whilst the other bears the title 
Asrarw’t-tawhid ft magamati ‘sh -Shaykh Abt Sa‘id. The latter 
was composed between 553 and 599 A.H./1157--1203 A.D., by 
the saint’s great-great-grandson, Muhammad b. al- Munawwar, 
So far as its contents are concerne d, Jami’s (as well as 
been added from other sources. But in spite of this agreement 
the wording is invariably different, and although these changes 
may have been introduced intentionally, there are no definite 
grounds for either accepting or rejecting the suggestion about 
Jami’s borrowing from the treatises named above. There 
exists a possibility also of the existence of, some earlier works 
which have not come down to us.!_ Besides, the section of the 
Nafahat, dealing with biographies of Aba Sa‘id and Ahmad-i- 
Jam with their associates is one of the most difficult to 
ment as to their origin. With some degree of probability it 
may be suggested (basing identification chiefly on the identity 
of the contents), that if the treatises mentioned above were 
perused by Jami, then Nos. 236(?), 353, ge 397, 360-369( 2) 
371, 372, 380, 385(?) were chiefly based on t 
Il. Works of Ibnw’l--Arabi. The ecioal works on 
Sufie doctrines by Muhyi’d-Din Muhammad b. ‘Ali surnamed 
Tbnu’l-‘Arabi, d. 638 A.H /1240 A.D., were freely perused by 
Jami who knew them well (and even compose a commentary 
on Same = them . The ma] jority of extracts are es: from 
b 
these oe or based on them in an essential degree, are 
probably Nos. 320(2), 371, 385, 432, 433, 523, 526-528, 535, 
537, 563, 578-611, as well as some notices on the lives of the 
ene saints inserted in the portion corresponding to the first 
nalf of the Taba ; 
III. Mireede't “ibad, by Abi Bakr ‘Abdu'l-lah b. Mu- 
hammad Razi, surnamed Najmu‘d-Din Daya, d. circa va 
AH. /1252 A. D. His work is well known in many MSS. It 


1 It of the story of Aba Sa‘ id ita 
in Kashf whmahfab (pp. 164-166 of Nicholson’. 's translati ape HE Some ee ea 
of it are obviously based on oral tradition but some 0 
sound like extracts from written sources. 
? Jami even refers to various ‘commentarigs upon it, err ner 
by Sadru'd-Din Qliniyawi (d. 673 A.H.l1274 A-D.), 00 PP- 499, 635, 
Mu’ayyidu’d-Din Jandi (d. circa 690 A.H. 1291 A.D.), on pp. * 57 Sie 
$48 ; and Sayyid An Hamadani (a. 786 A.H./1384 A.D.), on p. © 
mentions also several others 
