Islamic Traditions, SHÂFI'ITES [IO Bijapur 368]

Science of Tradition-Law.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 368 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 285 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

285.

B 368. Size about 73/4 in. by about 4 in.; foll. 268. Thirty-five lines in a page.

کتاب العجاب فی شرح اللباب

للمصنف و هو الامام الفاضل و الهمام الکامل نجم الملة والدین عبدالغفار القزوینی صاحب الحاوی الصغیر الخ.3

Najm al-dîn ‘ABD AL-GHAFFÂR (b. ‘Abd al-karîm) ḲAZWÎNÎ’S (d. A.H. 665) Commentary on his own abstract of Shâfi’ite Law, اللباب, imperfect at the end. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 302, regarding the original work.

This commentary is not mentioned anywhere. Only select passages of the original work are explained in it. The preface, if there was any, is wanting. Begins: باب رافع الحدث و الخبث الماء الطاهر، ای رافع الحدث و کذا رافع الخبث.

Beautifully written, mostly in a minute Naskh, but towards the end in Nasta’liḳ; of the ninth or tenth century. The text and the commentary are distinguished from each other in various ways. Ends in باب الجهاد. The upper portion of the book has been destroyed by white-ants.

Seal of Ibrâhîm Nauras (’Âdil Shâh II.).

Cat. 228, xv.

3 This title is in a later hand.