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" In the Baghistans Riadi has pointed out that for thirty years the important, works of sufis had been in his study.
3 The Sharh printed at the 'Alawi press and published by Maq bul-ud-Dawla Ihsanul-Mulk, Captain Mirza Mahdi Ali Khan Bahadur, Thabit Jang, with notes and indices by a number of scholars, contains quotations and references from Riadi's Hashiya, and at the end of the book we find a reference to it.
H. 1245 by Ahmad 'Ali in elegant N asta'Iiq and begins thus : (View the image of this page) As the title indicates, this treatise in Persian verse dealt with the sciences of stars.
Riadi's younger brother, Khairullah also composed a similar treatise under the title of al• Madkhal-fin-Nujum in Persian verse one copy of which is preserved in the Nadwa Library, Lucknow.
3. Among Sayyid Wajid 'Ali's books, in a Majmu'a Nos. 103-105 (View the image of this page) It is most probable that he must have had his elder brother's Madkhal before him while completing this treatise.
" Like other scholars, Riadi too used to teach which is confirmed not only by the writings of his biographers» but also by his own remark in the Baghistan.
Most of those are quoted in the Baghistan 3 as is evident from the following : (View the image of this page) Riadi's verses indicate that if he had attended to poetry more seriously, he would have been one of the greatest poets of his time.