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A treatise on grammar by Aḥmad b. al-Mas'ūd al-Ḥusaynī al-Harkāmī.

This qaṣīdah, written in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad after the battle fought at Badr, consists of 176 couplets. The Persian translation under each line, inscribed in red ink, is also in verse and rhymes with the Arabic verse. The author of the Arabic original was Muḥammad b. Sa'īd al Būṣīrī (d. 694, 696, or 697 A.H., 1294, 1296, or 1297 C.E.).

A short treatise containing advice to those considered heretics who lived in the time of the Prophet Muḥammad (d. 11 A.H., 632 C.E.). These were collected from some books on traditions by Shaykh Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad.

A complete commentary on the Wiqāyat al-Hidāyah of ‘Ubayd-Allāh b. Maḥmūd b. Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī, also known as "Ṣadr al-Sharī‘ah", who lived in the seventh century of the ḥijrah. The author of the commentary is Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Khurāsānī Quhistānī, (d. circa 950 A.H., 1543 C.E.).

A short treatise on advice to the people on the principles of religion by al-Imām Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, entitled "Ḥujjat al-Islām Zayn al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī'" (d. 505 A.H., 1111 C.E.).

A collection of fourteen different salutations and ninety-five blessings on the Prophet Muḥammad. Only the last word is altered, otherwise the wording of the various sentences remains unchanged.

A fragment of the famous historical encyclopaedia by Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī al-Mas‘ūdī (d.c. 345 A.H., 956 C.E.). It begins with the reign of the Umayyad Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwān (r. 685–705 C.E.) and ends with the Abbasid Caliph Mūsá al-Hādī (r. 785–786 C.E.).