Islamic Traditions, Law [IO Bijapur 334] کنزالدقائق

Science of Tradition-Law.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 334 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 255 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

255.

B 334. Size 141/4 in. by 91/2 in.; foll. 746. Five lines in a page.

Another work on Ḥanafite Law by Abu’l-barakât NASAFÎ, entitled كنز الدقائق. It is an abstract of his الوافی. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. 250; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 206; Stewart’s Catal. 146, etc. Copies are frequent. Printed at Dehli, A.H. 1287.

A fine copy, carefully written in a large character, with vowel-points. The broad margin is divided into three columns, the outermost of which is filled with a Persian translation. It concludes:

الحمدلله الذی وفقنی علی ترجمة هذا الکتاب و الصلوة علی رسوله محمد...1 روف بنده فقیر حقیر خاکسار بیمقدار امیدوار درگاه معبود محمود بن عبدالهادی ابن شیخ میرانجیو بن عبدالودود ابن ابو سعید بن ملک جهان شاه المعروف بالکُوْرِیْ آینده از گجرات بحکم الله تعالی و بخواست علم قدیم او

Occasional glosses. The latter portion has been partly destroyed by white-ants.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1033 [=1623-24 CE].

Cat. 227, iii.

1 Effaced.

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