Miscellanies [IO Islamic 2430]

Miscellanies.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2430 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1033 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1033.

2430. Size 121/4 in. by 81/4 in.; foll. 177. Twenty-one lines in a page.

I.Foll. 6v.-62. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-raḥîm b. Muḥammad ‘Omarî MÎLÂNÎ’S (d. A.H. 811) Commentary (ممزوج) on Aḥmad Jârabardî’s (d. A.H. 746) Grammar, المغنی. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 655, and Cat. St. Petersb. 179.

Ends: تمت الکتاب المسمی بالشرح المغنی فی یوم الاربع فی وقت الصبح ثبت الله ایمان صاحب (!).

II.Foll. 64v.-167. ABU SHUKÛR SÂLIMÎ’S Principles of the Muḥammadan Faith, entitled التمهید فی بیان التوحید, identical with no. 384.

The chapters are here more accurately marked, as follows: 1. (fol. 65) فی العقل و العقلاء; 2. (fol. 72v.) فی المحسوس و المعلوم; 3. (fol. 80) فی اثبات الصانع ; 4. (fol. 87v.) فی اثبات الصفات; 5. (fol. 95) فی الاسماء ;6. (fol. 97v.) فی اثبات الوحی; 7. (fol. 112v.) فی المعرفة و الایمان; 8. (fol. 123v.) فی شرائط الایمان; 9. (fol. 138) فی الدین; 10. (fol. 147) فی الخلافة و الامارة; 11. (fol. 154) فی السنة و الجماعة و الردّ علی البدعة.

Conclusion:

تمت الکتاب المسمی بالتمهید فی شهر الشوال فی هلال الخمسة فی یوم السبت فی وقت الضحی ثبت الله ایمان صاحب هذا الکتاب فی الدنیا و الآخرة و طول الله عمر کاتب هذا الکتاب.

III.Foll. 171-177. A fragment of a Commentary (ممزوج) on a short treatise on Religious Duties. This treatise begins: الحمدلله الذی فرّض علینا تعلّم شرائع الاسلام .

This piece has been reversed in binding.

Plainly written on rice-paper. Occasional interlinear and marginal notes in Javanese, written in the Arabic character. All the vacant pages are filled with the various extracts, chiefly from books on law.