Islamic Traditions, SHÂFI'ITES [IO Islamic 2924]

Science of Tradition-Law.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2924 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 284 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

284.

2924. Size 113/4 in. by 81/4 in.; foll. 275. Generally thirty-three or thirty-five lines in a page.

Various fragments of Commentaries on Nawawî’s منهاج الطالبین, and on another work on Shâfi’ite Law, written in different hands and at different dates, and in a desperate state of confusion. By forging catchwords, however, or by altering the first words of the leaves, the appearance of being consecutive and complete has been given to the whole. It begins with the commentary on کتاب الرهن from the second work, which appears to have originally formed the beginning of a separate volume. Hence the whole books has been styled کتاب الرهن in one inscription,1 and in another is further described as follows: الاول من کتاب الرهن من شرح العباب للعلامة بن...2 الله به آمین. There is a Shâfi’ite law-book with the title العباب mentioned by Ḥ. Kh. iv. 179, though neither the name of its author nor the existence of a commentary on it seems known to him.

According to the above inscriptions, the book has been described by an English owner as “Kitab u Rehen,” etc, and lettered on the back “Kitab Rahen.”

1 To this has been added by a later hand: من تصنیف خواجه موسی مشتمل بر احوال مسایل.

2 Effaced.