Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 57]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 57 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 246 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 246. B 57. Size 7 in. b 5 in.; foll. 50. Twenty-three lines in a page. A third, concise Commentary on the Sirâjîyah, by ABU’L-‘ALÂ Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Bihishtî Isfarâ’inî, commonly called Fakhr (al-dîn) Khurâsânî.2 Cf. Ḥ. Kh iv. 401. The preface begins: 3 الحمدلله الذی قدّر لحکمته سهام الوارثین و الوارثات. The text and the commentary are distinguished by قال and اقول. Well written in Nasta’liḳ, the diacritical points often omitted. Dated Friday, 20th Rabî’ I., 959. Revised and collated. Injured by insects. Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1023, from Shaikh ‘Alam Allah. Cat. 228, xiv. 2. 2 المشهور بالفخر الخر[اسا]نی. Thus the author calls himself in his preface. 3 Another MS. (no. 248) has بحکمته.