Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 349]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 349 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 205 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 205. B 349. Size about 101/4 in. by about 73/4 in.; foll. 229. Between twenty-four and twenty lines in a page. The first part of a work on details of Ḥanafite Law, entitled خلاصة الفتاوی, by IFTIKHÂR AL-DÎN ṬÂHIR b. Aḥmad b. ‘Abd al-rashîd Bukhârî (d. A.H. 542, at Sarakhs). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 165 and 136; Flügel, Class. Hanef. Rechtsgel. 318; and Stewart’s Catalogue, 148. This is a concise manual for judges, which the author wrote subsequently to his larger works, خزانة الواقعات and نصاب الفقیه. The preface begins: الحمدلله الذی نهج الدین، و نصب علیه البراهین . The present volume contains the following books, each subdivided into sections (فصل), which are numbered: الطهارة; الصلوة (fol. 22(; الحیض (fol. 74); الزکوة (fol. 76); الصوم (fol. 84); الحج (fol. 94); النکاح (fol. 97); الطلاق (fol. 128); الایمان (fol. 168). Ends: آخر المجلد الاول من کتاب خلاصة الفتاوی ویتلوه فی الثانی کتاب البیوع. Exquisitely written. Several portions, including the commencement and the end, restored by more modern hands. A lacuna on fol. 57. The first leaves much injured. Erroneously inscribed خزانة الواقعات. Cf. Catal. 228, xvii.