Islamic Law [IO Islamic 2158]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2158 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 237 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 237. 2158. Size 10 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 296. Twenty-five lines in a page. The first part of another Commentary (ممزوج) on the same work, styled جامع الرموز, by Shams al-dîn Muḥammad Khurâsânî ḲUHISTÂNÎ (d. A.H. 962 or 950), who completed it in A.H. 941. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 374; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. No. 284; and Cat. Lugd. iv. 121. Printed at Calcutta, 1858, by Col. W. Nassau Lees. This vol. extends to the end of کتاب الایمان. It begins: الحمدلله الذی فضلنا بتعظیم (sic) اصول مبسوط الجامع الکبیر. Plainly, but not carefully written. Conclusion: جلد اول شرح مختصر وقایع (!sic) بتاریخ نهم شهر جمادی الاول سنه ۲. Foll. 210 and 215 should be transposed. Seals of ‘Abd al-majîd Khân (A.H. 1145) and ‘Abd al-khâliḳ Khân, A.H. 1162.