Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 364] ذخیرة العقبی

• Law: Ḥanafite.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 346 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 231 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

231.

B 364. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 444. Twenty-one lines in a page.

A Super-commentary on the شرح الوقایة, by AKHÎ YÛSUF b. Junaid (Tuḳâtî, commonly called Akhî Chalabî, d. A.H. 905), who compiled it during the years A.H. 891-901 [=1493-95 CE]. It is entitled ذخیرة العقبی فی شرح صدر الشریعة العظمی, and dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan (Bâyazîd b. Muḥammad Khân) b. Murâd Khân.¹ Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 327 and vi. 460, 464, and also Flügel, Class. 346. The preface begins:

الحمد لله الذی شرح صدر الشریعة الغراء، فملأه باحکام الشریعة الحنفیة البیضاء

In the epilogue, the author styles himself

اخی یوسف بن جنید عفی الله عنهما الحمید المجید المدرس باحد الثمانیة الکائنة فی البلد القسطنطنیة (sic)

and dates his work as follows:

و کان ابتداء التالیف تقریبا فی احد (ی) و تسعین و ثمانمائة و ختامه فی ثمان ذی الحجة من حجة احدی و تسع مائة من الهجرة الخ

This copy was transcribed for, and apparently in part by, A’azz al-dîn Muḥammad b. Shaikh Abu’l-ma’âli. Worm-eaten towards the end.

¹ The names in the parenthesis are taken from the following MS., there being a blank left for them in the present copy.