Islamic Law [IO Islamic 1871]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1871 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 272 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 272. 1871. Size 81/4 in. by 41/4 in.; foll. 357. Seventeen lines in a page. IBN NAJÎM’S1 (d. A.H. 970) الاشباه و النظائر, on Ḥanafite Law. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 309; Cat. Mus. Brit. 124; Cat. St. Petersb. 42, etc. Printed at Calcutta, 1826. This copy was made for ‘Abdallah b. Shaikh Muḥammad Ṭâhir Fârûḳî, at Cambay (فی البندر المبارک کنبایت, see fol. 6). Well written. Notes in the latter portion. Prefixed is an index to the contents. Foll. 1-5 are filled with various notes. Two leaves are wanting after fol. 184. Fol. 170 should be placed after 177, and fol. 203 after 205. [Hastings.] 1 See no. 266.