Duʿāʾ al-Shaykh Sayyid al-Mukhtār دعاء الشيخ سيد المختار
Scope & Content:
A prayer of al-Shaykh Sayyid al-Mukhtār, perhaps al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (c.1730- 1811), born in northern Mali. The text reports that "whoever reads this prayer once on a Friday, it would be as if he had read Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt one thousand times".
The recto is a supplication asking for protection against people who may try to do one harm. The verso is a number table with instructions to insert a name in the middle. Below this is a red mark - perhaps a fingerprint - over a letter sequence with presumed numerological significance.
Recto: number table and instructions to bring blessing and love. Verso: writing out a certain verse 100 times on Laylat al-Qadr means that "one’s memory will never die in this world".