Philosophy [IO Islamic 1468]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1468 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 553 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

553.

1468. Size 51/4 in. by 31/4 in.; foll. 90. Thirteen lines in a page.

شرح ضابطة تهذيب منطق

A series of explanation of that section of the Tahdhîb which begins: وضابطة شرائط الاربعة (= fol. 20 in no. 534). These explanations are either special treatises, or only extracts from scholia on the Tahdhîb.

I. Foll. 1-5. The Glosses of Mîr ABU’L-FATḤ (see no. 543).

II. Foll. 6-11. The Commentary of Molla ‘ABDALLAH YAZDÎ (see no. 547).

III. Foll. 12-21. A special Commentary on the passage in question, by FÂḌIL RÛMÎ.

Begins: قال رحمه الله تعالى و ضابطة ..... الى ذات الاصغر1 هذا مما افرد به المص الامام الخ.

Conclusion:هذا ما خطر ببالى فى شرح هذا المقام من غير مراجعة الى كتاب آخر الخ.

IV. Foll. 22-36. The Commentary of Shâh FATḤ ALLAH SHÎRWÂNÎ, 2 a disciple of Taftâzânî.

Begins:و ضابط شرائط الاشكال الخ مراده بالشرائط هى المذكورة فى الرسالة مفصّلا.

V. Foll. 37-44. The Commentary (ممزوج) of Saiyid SHÂH MÎR (Hibat Allah Ḥusainî). Cf Ḥ.Kh. ii. 482.

Begins: وقد وفق المص المحقق باختراع ضابط تامّ

VI. Fol. 45r. A Note on the subject, beginning:واعلم ان ههنا ضابطة كلية مختصرة جامعة للاشكال. At the end is written:نقود رحمه الله تع.

An explanation of it is written round the margin.

It begins:بيان هذه القاعدة انّ الاوسط , and ends:مُلا احمد رحمه الله تعالى بمنه.

VII. Foll. 46-58. A Commentary on the passage in question, inscribed:شرح ضابطة تهذيب منطق استاد العلماء مولانا.. 3 قدس سرّه واوصل الينا برّه. The author appears to be ‘IMÂD AL-DÎN (see no. 588, iv.).

Begins:قال قدس سرّه وضابطة .... ذات الاصغر اقول و بالله التوفيق محصله انه لا بد فى كل ضرب الخ.

VIII. Foll. 59-90. Another special Commentary, by AḤMAD B. SULAIMÂN (probably Gujarâtî, who is quoted in no. 534, fol. 23).

Prefixed is a preface , which begins: يا من جعل الانسان مع كونه اصغر مشتملا على العالم الاكبر. The author states in it that he wrote this Commentary at the request of a friend , Abu’l-sa’âdât Saiyid ‘Abd al-‘alî. The work concludes with a long epilogue, which begins:وهذا آخر ما قصده احقر الخليقة احمد ابن سليمان. Some additions by the author are on the margin.

Neatly written, of the eleventh century.

[Gaikwar.]

1 The whole passage commented on.

2 This MS. has الشيرازی.

3 Two words, but no name, destroyed by insects.