Law [IO Islamic 1157]

Law: Ḥanafite.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1157 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 202 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

ḤANAFITES.

202.

1157. Size 93/4 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 116. Thirteen lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-4. A short treatise in explication of the following eight law terms: فرض, واجب, سنة, مستحب, مباح, محرم, مكروه, and مفسد, in as many chapters. According to the conclusion,1 the materials were taken from the following works: المحیط الکبیر, الفتاوی الخانیة,الهداية و حاشيتها, المنتقي, and میزان الاصول. Begins:

اعلم ان العبد…الحمدلله مبتلا

It appears from a work printed at Dehli (about A.D. 1870), which contains glosses on the present treatise, that the name of its author is Tâj al-dîn الرکالی, and it seems to be entitled عمدة اليقين.

II. Foll. 5-115. کتاب القدوری. An abstract of Ḥanafite Law, by Abu’l- Ḥusain Aḥmad b. Muḥammad ḲUDÛRÎ (Baghdâdî, d. A.H. 428). It is also called مختصر القدوری, or merely القدوری. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 451; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 84; Fleischer, Cat. Lips. 477, etc. Printed at Dehli, 1847, and subsequently.

This MS. begins:

قال … الحمدلله رب العالمین الشیخ الامام ابو الحسن (sic) احمد بن محمد البغدادی رحمة الله علیه کتاب الطهارات الاصل فی وجوب الطهارات (sic) قال الله تعالی الخ

Well written in Nasta’liḳ, by Shaikh Farîd al-dîn Muḥammad b. Shaikh Ḥasan Muḥammad. Dated 5th Rabî’ I., 1091 [=23 April 1680]. Covered with notes in different hands, and preceded by a table of contents.

Library of Faiḍâbâd (Oudh). Seal of Mîr Muḥammad Asad Khân, A. H. 1185 [=1771-72].

[“Tippu” (Johnson?)]

1 The text is very inaccurate.