Islamic Law [IO Islamic 2239]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2239 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 209 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 209. 2239. Size 111/2 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 392. Twenty-five lines in a page. A Commentary (ممزوج) on Rukn al-islâm’s (Muḥammad b. Abu Bakr Imâmzâdah Samarḳandî Ḥanafî, d. A.H. 573) شرعة الاسلام, by YA’ḲÛB B. SAIYID ‘ALÎ (Rûmî, d. A.H. 931). It is entitled: مفاتیح الجِنان و مصابیح الجَنان. See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 1 and iv. 42, and for a full analysis of the شرعة الاسلام, Krafft, Hdss. orient. Akad. Wien, 163 sq. Cf. Catal. St. Petersb. 44, and Cat. Bodl. ii. 82. This commentary has been compiled from 120 works, such as commentaries on the Koran, collections of traditions, law-books, works on morals, dictionaries, grammars, etc. A list of them is given at the end of the work. Begins: حمدا لمن منّ علی عباده نعمة الاسلام و جعله شرعة و منهاجا. The original work commences (fol. 4v.): الحمدلله الذی دلنا علی الطریق بالشواهد و الاعلام. Well written. The colophon runs as follows: کاتبه احقر الناس محمد نصیر قریشی تحریر فی التاریخ پانزدهم شعبان روز چهارشنبه سنه ۱۰۹۶. A list of the sections of the شرعة الاسلام is written on the fly-leaves. Worm-eaten. [Coll. Fort William, 1825.]