Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 355]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 355 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 250 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 250. B 355. Size 111/2 in. by 91/4 in.; foll. 646. Thirty-one lines in a page. A digest of Ḥanafite Law, called الوافی, with a Commentary (ممزوج), both by Ḥâfiẓ al-dîn Abu’l-barakât ‘Abdallah b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmûd NASAFÎ (d. A.H. 710). The commentary is entitled الکافی فی شرح الوافی. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 418 and v. 23, and Bibl. Sprenger. 627. Beginning: الحمد لمن جلّت نعمه و دقت حکمه ... قال الصدر الکبیر حافظ الملة و الدین بحر المعانی نعمان الثانی عبدالله بن الصدر السعید الشهید حمید الملة و الدین احمد بن الصدر السعید حافظ الدین محمود النسفی تغمده الله برحمته لما فرغت من المختصر المسمّی بالوافی اردت ان اشرحه شرحا ارسمه بالکافی الخ. The Wâfi is arranged and subdivided exactly like the Hidâyah. The present copy is in fifteen fascicles, written in various, and generally very bad, Nasta’liḳ hands, of the tenth century. The text is not distinguished from the commentary. The concluding portion is wanting, and the last two leaves much injured. On a vacant leaf after the second fascicle (fol. 112) have been written the place and date of the composition, Bukhâra, 22nd Ramaḍan, 684. Prefixed is a list of contents. Seal of Ibrâhîm Nauras (‘Âdil Shâh II.). Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1024, from Muḥammad b. Ibrâhîm Muḳri’. Cat. 227, v.1.