The sources of Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah

1. Editorial note of the printed Arabic edition The editor of the printed edition 2 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 7 · ch. 9 2 passages anchored here

   The apparatus is a distinct textual voice invoked in the printed source, reporting a manuscript reading and a conjecture.

   [31] (1) A blank in the original, the measure of two letters.

2. The Qur'an the Qur'an 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

   the author's introduction · ch. 6 2 passages anchored here

   بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم is a Qur'anic formula used here to consecrate the treatise, which counts as invoking scripture as a source of legitimacy rather than merely reporting it.

   As for our own proofs, they are what we have mentioned of deriving from the Book of God and eliciting from the speech of the Messenger of God;

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

the author's introduction 2 sources

The allusions of the masters of hearts · The sound books

ch. 2 4 sources

A book on the soul · The doctrine of the philosophers concerning the soul · The doctrines of the physicians concerning the spirit and the soul · The doctrines of the scholars of truth and the sages of veracity

ch. 3 2 sources

The doctrine that the satans are immaterial terrestrial souls · The sayings of the Ancients

ch. 4 19 sources

The Qur'an, account of the Companions of the Cave · The Qur'an, terms for the commanding, reproaching and tranquil soul · The Qur'an, the formula that to God belongs the highest likeness · The Qur'an, verse on the sending of God's spirit in human likeness · The Qur'an, verse on the spirit and the angels standing in rank · The Qur'an, verse on the spirit being of the Lord's command · The Qur'an, verse on the trustworthy spirit bringing down the revelation · The Qur'an, verse praising those who elicit meaning · The Qur'an, verse that everything perishes · The doctrine of the philosophers concerning the ranks of existents and the spirit · The doctrine of the scholars of truth and the sages of veracity concerning the spirit and the soul · The prophetic saying that the spirit hovers above the bier · The report that God descends to the lowest heaven · The report that the believer's spirit is in a lamp beneath the Throne · The report that the spirits are in a garden of Paradise or a pit of the Fires · The report that the spirits were like marshalled armies · The sayings of earlier men adduced in dispute · The sound reports of Jibrīl's coming to the Prophet · The view that the spirit is a small part settled in the heart

ch. 5 2 sources

The Qur'an, the Light Verse imagery of niche, glass and lamp · The allusions of the masters of hearts concerning the four degrees of man

ch. 6 9 sources

The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Fajr (Q 89:29) · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Qamar (Q 54:55) and Sūrat al-Muṭaffifīn (Q 83:18) · The doctrine of the philosophers that from the one only one proceeds · The doctrine of the physicians on the bodily constituents · The philosophers' argument from the graded needs of beings · The philosophers' argument from the knower of the indivisible · The philosophers' doctrine that God's knowledge is not passive · The position of the theologians on independence of place · The speech of the Messenger of God (ḥadīth)

ch. 7 9 sources

The Qur'an, Sūrat Yūsuf (Q 12:53) and Sūrat al-Qiyāmah (Q 75:2) · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Aʿrāf (Q 7:179) · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Aʿrāf (Q 7:43) · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Isrāʾ (Q 17:74) · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Kahf (Q 18:110) · The doctrine of the scholars on the ordering of souls and spirits · The opinion of some later scholars on the realities of human souls · The philosophers' ordering of souls and their ten intellects · The tenfold ordering of the soul according to the masters of retreats

ch. 8 5 sources

The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Anʿām (Q 6:18 and Q 6:65) · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Najm (Q 53:9) and Sūrat al-Nisāʾ (Q 4:145) · The formula of divine oneness (lā ilāha illā Allāh) · The prescription of the people of retreats on seclusion and remembrance · The teaching of the people of retreat on stirring the soul toward God

ch. 9 19 sources

Arabic poetry · Nuzhat al-ṭarf · Printer's colophon of the 1347 AH / 1929 CE edition · The Book of God as object of recitation and interpretation · The Dhakhīrah · The Maqāmāt · The Murshid · The Questions of Ḥunayn · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Ḥajj (Q 22:75) · The Qur'an, Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt (Q 49:12) · The Qānūn · The medical instruction of Ibn Hubal · The sound prophetic report on deeds and their endings · The teaching of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī in the principles and the intelligibles · The teaching of ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Ṭāwūsī in dialectic · The view that the saintly degree is not attained by acquisition · al-Bulghah · al-Lumaʿ · al-Maṣādir