Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 344]

Law: Ḥanafite.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 344 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 220 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

220.

B 344, 347. Size 101/2 in. by 7 in.; foll. 624. Thirty-one, twenty-nine, and twenty-seven lines in a page.

Another Commentary (by قوله) on the Hidâyah, called الکفایة, by BURHÂN AL-SHARÎ’AH Maḥmûd b. ‘Ubaidallah b. Maḥmûd Tâj al-sharî’ah Maḥbûbî, who flourished at the beginning of the eighth century (see the following MS.). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 483. The work was printed, together with the Hidâyah, at Calcutta, A.H. 1249, in four vols., and also at Bombay, A.H. 1280.

Originally in two separate volumes, each containing two of the Calcutta edition. Written in different hands, part of the second volume in a bad Nasta’liḳ. Vol. I. (as far as fol. 297) is revised throughout, and concludes with the date of the original copy (Ramaḍan, 832). It is preceded by a different commentary on the preface of the Hidâyah (foll. 4-8), which, after an introductory line, begins: الحمدلله افتتح الکتاب بالتسمیة و التحمید. Both vols. have tables of contents, in a modern hand. One leaf is wanting after fol. 21, and six after fol. 43. Fol. 39 is much injured. Stained.

Vol. I. has the correct title, but vol. II. is inscribed: نهایه حاشیه هدایه جلد چهارم. Cf. Catal. 227, ii., and i.4.