Islamic Traditions, SHÂFI'ITES [IO Bijapur 375A]

Science of Tradition-Law. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 375A in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 287 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 287 B 375A. Size 73/4 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 14. Fifteen lines in a page. A popular work on religious duties, according to the Shâfi’ite rite, concerning purification, prayer, funerals, alms, fasting, pilgrimage, and contracts. The author is not known. Beginning: الحمدلله رب العالمین و اشهد ان لا اله الا الله....و بعد فهذا مختصر فیما لابد لکل مسلم من معرفته من فروض الطهارة و الصلوة و غیرهما الخ Well written in a large hand. Dated Saturday, 16th Jum. I., 1189 (سنة ۱۸۹) [=15 July 1775 CE]. It was transcribed by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad با حشوان, probably in Southern Arabia. [Bijapur Collection]