Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Islamic 1273] مَمْزُوج

Principles of Jurisprudence.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1273 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 332 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

332.

1273. Size 111/4 in. by 7 in.; foll. 213. Thirty-one and twenty-three lines in a page.

The first part of a Commentary (ممزوج) on Muḥibb Allah b. ‘Abd al-shakûr Bahârî’s (d. A.H. 1119 = 1707-08 CE) المسلَّم, or Principles of Jurisprudence.

Part of the original work1 was printed at Lakhnau, A.H. 1263.2 Cf. Bibl. Sprenger. 610, and Stewart’s Catal. 151, liv. It was written in A.H. 1109, which date is expressed by the chronogram مسلم الثبوت.

It refers alike to the Ḥanafite and Shâfi’ite systems, and consists of a مقدّمة; three مقالات, treating of المبادی; four اصول , on المقاصد; and a خاتمة.

The name of the commentator, which is not given, is, according to the following no. [333], Molla NIẒÂM AL-DÎN.3

Beginning:

ابتدأ الکلام بالتحمید لله الحمید فقال الحمدلله الذی نزّل الایات آثر التنزیل الخ

This part comprises the three مقالات المبادی, and concludes:

ولیکن هذا آخر ما نرید نظمه فی سلک شرح الکتاب الحمد لله المنعام الهادی علی اتمام شرح المبادی و الصلوة ... والله اسأل ان یوفقنی لشرح المقاصد الخ

It consists of two separate volumes. The first, which ends with the fourth paragraph (فصل) of the third مقالة (fol. 94), is written in a minute and not very clear handwriting. It is dated Râmpûr, Wednesday, 2nd Dhû-alḥijjah. The second volume, which contains the rest of the same مقالة, is written in a similar but plainer style, and bears no date. Coloured lines round the pages. Foll. 196-9 should stand thus: 197, 196, 199, 198.

[Hastings.]

1 To the end of the second مقالة.

2 Another commentary on it, called کشف المبهم, was printed at Cawnpore, A.H. 1287.

3 He is likewise so called in occasional quotations on the margin of the Lakhnau edition.