Islamic Law [IO Islamic 2555] شرح الوقایة

Law: Ḥanafite.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2555 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 221  here with further notations and hyperlinks].

221.

2555. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 329. Twenty-one or nineteen lines in a page.

A Commentary on Burhân al-sharî’ah’s الوقایة, or abridgement of the Hidâyah, compiled by his grandson (ṢADR AL-SHARÎ’AH) ‘Ubaidallah b. Mas’ûd b. Tâj al-sharî’ah b. Ṣadr al-sharî’ah (d. A.H. 747 or 745), who completed it in A.H. 743. It is called simply شرح الوقایة, but also goes by the name of its author, viz. صدر الشریعة. See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 460; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 209; Cat. Mus. Brit. 119, etc. Copies are frequent.

Written in different styles. Date, A.H. 965. Scribe, ‘Abd al-raḥîm (b.?) ‘Omar. Frequent marginal notes; the margin, however, is injured. Stained.

Foll. 1-9 and 320-329 are filled with various extracts and notes.

Signature of Muḥammad Afḍal at the end.

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]