Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 56] السراجیّة و ممزوج

Law: Ḥanafite.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 56 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 239 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

239.

B 56. Size 81/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 108. Twenty-three lines in a page.

(foll. 1-14) The celebrated treatise on the Law of Inheritance (الفرائض), commonly called السراجیّة, by SIRÂJ AL-DÎN Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-rashîd SAJÂWANDÎ (who flourished about A.H. 600). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 399 sqq.; Cat. Mus. Brit. 409; Fleischer, Cat. Lips. 481; and Cat. Lugd. iv. 123 sq. It was edited by Sir W. Jones, Calcutta, 1792.

(foll. 15-108) کتاب شرح السراجیة فی فرائض الحنفیة للسید الشریف. A Commentary (ممزوج) on the preceding work, by SAIYID SHARÎF JURJÂNÎ (d. A.H. 816). See Ḥ. Kh. v. 401, and Cat. Mus. Brit. l.c. It was translated by Sir W. Jones in the above edition, and the text printed at Calcutta, A.H. 1260.

Beginning:

الحمدلله رب العالمین و الصلوة علی خیر خلقه محمد و آله اجمعین قال المولی الشیخ الامام سراج الملة و الدین الخ

Both treatises are neatly written, by Muḥammad b. Khâlid Walîdî Ḥanafî, for his own use. The former is dated beginning of Sha’bân, 995, and the latter, Thursday, 14th Jum. II., 1001.

On the last page is an Ijâzah for the present volume, dated end of Shawwâl, 1029.

Seal of Muḥammad Ikhlâs Khân at the end. “Ḳâdirîyah Library,” A.H. 1075, from Tâj Muḥammad. Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1091, from Khawâṣṣ Khân.

Cat. 228, xiv. 1.

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