A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
1975
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Credit: A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    96/344 (page 82)
    The date of the author runs as follows: aJye JU ESS ox lets! Doky ses Written by the same hand as the preceding MS., to which it corresponds in all particulars of origin and authenticity. The original copy had been revised by Ibrahim Dimyati, 4.4. 771, and declared by the author to contain the standard version. Date, Monday, 15th Rabi‘ IL., 794. Various poems in praise of the author are at the be- ginning and end of the book, in the same hand. 331. B 330a. Size about 113 in. by about 7} in.; foll. 341. Eleven lines in a page. A compendious work on the Principles of Juris- prudence, entitled » 1 <ul, by Kamal al-din Abu ‘Abd- allah Muhammad b. Humém al-din ‘Abd al-wahid b. ‘Abd al-hamid b. Sa‘d al-din Mas‘id Iskandari Siwasi Hanafi, commonly called Inn ar-HumAm (d. a.m. 861), Cf. H. Kh. ii. 214, and Bibl. Sprenger. 604. Beginning : a) bel els) recall WI yey G Sans Jk ¢\ pl) agus* spac dnoyy 3pdd (sic) Fay, dele The author states in his preface that his work com- prises both the Hanafite and Shafi‘ite systems. It con- sists of an introduction, 4 die, and three books, liv, whose subjects are Wlz>Il, g o3h SNymty soll. Well written, with a broad margin. The colophon runs as follows : jiii\ dus] wv es Hijet aul wks ‘ad BEG poll Sele any caleagally uacagall peal ESM slack tne Bans ye del cd Notes in the earlier portion. On the title-page is an account of the author, accord- ing to which he was born in a.H. 790, and became a pupil of Ibn al-Shihnah (d. a.m. 815) and others. He 1 Originally a))\ ods Ke | was alike distinguished as a scholar and a Safi. He died at Cairo, on Friday, 7th Ramadan, 861. Signature of ‘Alam Allah b. ‘Abd al-razzik Makki Hanafi ‘Aidarisi. Bij. Libr., az. 1023. Cat. 229, iv. 332. 1273. Size 11} in. by 7 in.; foll. 213. Thirty- one and twenty-three lines in a page. The first part of a Commentary (<3™) on Muhibb v Allah b. ‘Abd al-shakir Bahari’s (d. a-a. 1119) woot! ; or Principles of Jurisprudence. Part of the original work’ was printed at Lakhnau, a.H. 1263,? Cf. Bibl. Sprenger. 610, and Stewart’s Catal. 151, liv. It was written in a.a. 1109, which date is expressed by the chronogram c~,.4)| pone ; It refers alike to the Hanafite and Shafi‘ite systems, and consists of a dvdiv; three Yin, treating of sold); four Js, on welll; anda dwls. The name of the commentator, which is not given, is, according to the following no., Molla Niwim AL-Din.® Beginning: JU oes! a) aasll elas foul 2 ype AT OU 55 sail all nell This part comprises the three soll! ceylie, and concludes : oe Shes 8 dabss ayy be pT Ne ws esdll et oleil de csuldt wleall a wns!l Oba 2) ocliall oA Cady GI Lal allly 0 dha It consists of two separate volumes, The first, which ends with the fourth paragraph ((\e+) of the third iSliv (fol. 94), is written in a minute and not very clear handwriting. Itis dated Ramptr, Wednesday, 2nd Dhu’l-hijjah. The second volume, which contains the rest of the same dJ\iv, is written in a similar but plainer style, and bears no date. Coloured lines round the pages. Foll. 196-9 should stand thus: 197, 196, 199, 198. [ Hastings. ] 1 To the end of the second d3\iv. 2 Another commentary on it, called as nS , Was printed at Cawnpore, a.H. 1287. ° He is likewise so called in occasional quotations on the margin of the Lakhnau edition.