Islamic Traditions, SHÂFI'ITES [IO Bijapur 366]

Science of Tradition-Law.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 366 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 278 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

SHÂFI’ITES.

278.

B 366. Size 12 in. by 9 in.; foll. 158. Thirteen lines in a page.

A system of Shâfi’ite Law, being, according to the inscription, المحرَّر by Abu’l-Ḳâsim ‘Abd al-karîm b. Muḥammad RÂFI’Î Ḳazwînî (d. A.H. 623), on which compare Ḥ. Kh. v. 419, and Cat. Bodl. i. 78.

There is no special preface in this MS. it begins: الحمدلله رب العالمین....کتاب الطهارة قال الله تعالی وَ أَنْزَلْنَا مِنَ اْلسِّمَآءِ الخ.

In the colophon, the work is ascribed to Nawawî (تالیف الشیخ الامام العامل الامجد محیی الدین یحیی ابن شرف النّووسی (sic)). This is, however, evidently incorrect. That it is really المحرّر, is proved by its near relation to Nawawî’s منهاج الطالبین,1 which is an abridged edition of that work.

The following books (کتاب) occur in this MS.: الطهارة; الصلوة; الجنائز; الزکوة; الصیام; الحجّ; البیوع; النکاح; الجراح; السیر; ادب القاضی; الشهادات; العتق; امهات الاولاد.

Well written in two hands, with vowel-points added. Completed on Monday, 29th Shawwâl, 1026, by ‘Alî b. Ibrâhîm. Numerous notes. Defects after foll. 88 and 96. The margin injured in the earlier portion.

Signature of Saiyid ‘Abd al-raḥmân b. ‘Alawî al-‘Aidarûs Ḥusainî at the end and on the title-page.

Cat. 227. Vi. (?).

1 See the following MS.