Islamic Law [IO Islamic 1393]

Law: Ḥanafite.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1393 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 218 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

218.

1393. Size 12 in. by 8 in.; foll. 335. Twenty-nine and twenty-one lines in a page.

The first part of a copious Commentary on the Hidâyah, entitled النهایة فی شرح الهدایة. The author is Ḥusâm al-dîn al-Ḥusain b. ‘Alî ṢIOUNÂḲÎ (d. A.H. 711), who completed his work in A.H. 700. See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 480, and Flügel, Class. 327. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 144, iii. No other copy seems to be extant.

This is the first commentary that was written upon the Hidâyah. The author began it at the exhortation of his Shaikh, ‘Alâ al-dîn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ‘Omar الساغری. Of the two Isnâds connecting him with Marghînânî, the one consists of three, and the other of two intermediate persons. He can by no means be called his pupils, as he is by Ḥ. Kh. (l.c.). The original text is distinguished by the word قوله.

The present volume consists of two separate portions. The first (foll. 1-183) contains the books الطهارات and الصلوة, and the second (foll. 184-335) the books الزکوة, الصوم, and الحج. Plainly written. Two blanks on foll. 270 and 271, intended for drawings of the Mosque of Makkah, have never been filled up. Worm-eaten.

Seal and signature of a Saiyid named Ashraf b. ‘Abdallah, who bought this MS. of Nûr Muḥammad صحاف, and seals of Faiḍ ‘Alî Khân (A.H. 1174), and Muḥammad Khiḍr Khân (A.H. 1191).

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