Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Bijapur 367]

Principles of Jurisprudence.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 367 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 280 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

280.

B 367. Size 12 in. by 81/4 in.; foll. 454. Thirty-three lines in a page.

The first half of a larger Commentary (ممزوج) on the same work, styled تحفة المحتاج. The author does not give his name, but he says in his preface that he began his work on 12th Muḥarram, 958. In a more modern inscription, which proves to be correct, he is called AḤMAD B. ḤAJAR, i.e. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥajar Ḥaithamî Makkî (d. A.H. 973[= 1566 CE]). This commentary was printed at Cairo, A.H. 1282, in four vols.

Beginning: الحمدلله الذی جعل لکل امة شرعة و منهاجا.

In two volumes, the first of which concludes with کتاب الحج, and is dated A.H. 1012 (نهار الاحد آخر سنة اثنی عشر بعد الف). The second begins (fol. 255v.) with کتاب البیع, and concludes (fol. 454r.) with کتاب الجعالة. On the last page begins the third volume with کتاب الفرائض.

Clearly written, the text of the Minhâj in red. Numerous notes in the earlier portion. Foll. 50-65 have been supplied by a different hand.

The above mentioned inscription is in the hand of the owner, ‘Abd al-raḥmân b. Saiyid ‘Alawî b. Aḥmad b. ‘Abdallah al-‘Aidarûs Ḥusainî.

Cat. 227, iv. 1.

1 الححی (sic), rhyming with المُنْجِی.

2 See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 5, and below, no. 285.