Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 288] Annotations on Bayḍāwī

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 288 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 90 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

90.

B 288. Size 101/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 403. Twenty-three lines in a page.

Annotations on the beginning of Baiḍâwî's Commentary, by ‘ABD AL-ḤAKÎM b. Shams al-dîn SIYÂLKÛTÎ (السیالکوتی- of Siyâlkût in the Panjâb; flourished under Shâhjahân, and died shortly after A. H. 1060). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vii. p. 798, I. 3 sqq.

One leaf is missing at the beginning. The first words are:

حتی جذب ضیعی (sic) و جمع شتات عمری دولة السلطان

The preface dwells upon the merits, and especially the orthodoxy, of Shâhjahân (ابو المظفر شهاب الدین محمد شاه جهان بادشاه), to whom the author dedicated his work as soon as it had reached the end of the first جزء of the text of Baiḍâwî. The MS. ends abruptly with the words:

قوله و الجمهور آه1 ای اکثر الفقهاء علی ان الخلع بلا شقاق

This may be the end of the work, which, according to Ḥ. Kh., remained unfinished.

Well written. Single leaves are missing after foll. 58, 182, 261.

Wrongly described on fol. 193 as commentary on the Kashshâf. Cf. Catal. 221, i. 7.

1 Referring to Sû. 2, 229.