Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 359]

Law: Ḥanafite.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 359 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 276 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

276.

B 359. Size 93/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 376. Twenty-five lines in a page.

A work on details of Ḥanafite Law, entitled خزانة الروایات. The author, whose name does not occur, is, according to Ḥ. Kh. iii. 135, Ḳâḍî جکن (JUGGAN?)1 Hindî, of کرو (?) in Gujarât.

This is a mere compilation from various works on law, rites, and morals, which are frequently quoted. Most of these date from the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, though the compiler certainly belongs to a more modern period. The order of arrangement is the common one, save that a کتاب العلم has been added at the beginning, and کتاب المفقود is followed by a rather long کتاب الاستحسان و الکراهة (fol. 317), with which the present MS. concludes. This, therefore, appears to be the first part only.

Plainly written in different hands. Of the eleventh century. Red lines round the pages.

Catal. 228, x.

1 This name occurs in Sprenger, Catal. Libr. Oudh, p. 246.