Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Islamic 784]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم This manuscript is now IO Islamic 784 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no.50 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 50. 784. Size 91/2 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 271. Twenty-one lines in a page. An old Shî’ah Commentary on the Koran, by Abd’ul-ḥasan ‘ALÎ B. IBRÂHÎM (b. Hâshim Ḳummî, flourished in the fourth century). See Ṭûsî, p. ٢٠٩; Bibl. Sprenger. 406; and Nöldeke, Gesch. d. Qor., xxix. Imperfect at the beginning. The name of the author, as given above, appear at the commencement of Sû. 2 (fol. 1v.). This commentary, which may be regarded as the fundamental work of Shî’ah Tafsîr, is, on the whole, concise; only the causes (اسباب) of several revelations are related at greater length. It is founded chiefly on alleged sayings of the Imâms Abu Ja’far (Muḥammad Bâḳir), and Abu ‘Abdallah (Ja’far Ṣâdiḳ), quoted either directly (by قال) or by an Isnâd, which always begins with the author’s father. The first words are: عن النضر بن سوید و احمد بن محمد; and the conclusion: قد وقع الفراغ من تسوید هذا الکتاب المبارک ضحوة یوم الخامس من .... (sic) On the last fol. begins a treatise or extract, باب ما یعابن (sic) المومن و الکافر. Clearly written, about the tenth century of the Hijrah. Worm-eaten.