بحر الانساب Baḥr al-ansāb, 1011 A.H., 1602-1603 C.E.

The title translating as "The Sea of Generations," this is the Persian version of a history of the families of the ancestors of Muḥammad from Adam downwards, of himself, of the first six Caliphs, and the Shi'i Imāms. The translator, Muḥammad Ja'far Ḥusaynī of Mecca, states in the preface that the Arabic original was the work of his own father. It is written in very simple style, illustrated with numerous family tables, and in the part dealing with the history of Muḥammad and his ancestors a great many quotations in Arabic (and translation) are given on the authority of Imām 'Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 A.H., 661 C.E.). The present copy has headings in red; illuminated beginning; is gold lined around the columns; bound in stamped leather. It was copied at Karah (Allahabad) by Abū al-Faṭh b. Shaykh Firūz Qurayshī al-Ṣiddīqī.