Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 360]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 360 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 277 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 277. B 360. Size about 101/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 92. Nineteen lines in a page. A fragment of a treatise on Police Regulations, entitled نصاب الاحتساب, by ‘OMAR B. MUḤAMMAD b. Iwaḍ Sha’mî (Ḥanafî). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 345, Stewart’s Cat. 149, xxxiv., and Bibl. Sprenger. 657. This fragment contains the beginning of the work (foll. 1-29), and the concluding portion (foll. 30-49), the latter being defective after fol. 37. The first chapter is on the definition of the terms الاحتساب and الحِسْبة, and gives a detailed account of the duties connected with the latter office. The last chapter is the sixty-sixth. Conclusion: قد تمت کتب هذا الکتاب المسمی بنصاب الاحتساب. Plainly written in two hands. Notes in the first portion. There follows another fragment (foll. 50-92), written in the first of the two hands aforesaid, which treats of the same subject, although it is doubtful whether it belongs to the above treatise. It begins: فی تفصیل منصب الاحتساب, and is preceded by a vacant leaf. Which has been inscribed نصاب الاحتساب, and subsequently, این کناب اعمال الاحتساب. All headings omitted. Frequent blanks.