Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 57]

• Law: Ḥanafite.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 57 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 246 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

246.

B 57. Size 7 in. b 5 in.; foll. 50. Twenty-three lines in a page.

A third, concise Commentary on the Sirâjîyah, by ABU’L-‘ALÂ Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Bihishtî Isfarâ’inî, commonly called Fakhr (al-dîn) Khurâsânî.² Cf. Ḥ. Kh iv. 401.

The preface begins: ³ الحمدلله الذی قدّر لحکمته سهام الوارثین و الوارثات. The text and the commentary are distinguished by قال and اقول. Well written in Nasta’liḳ, the diacritical points often omitted. Dated Friday, 20^th Rabî’ I., 959. Revised and collated. Injured by insects.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1023, from Shaikh ‘Alam Allah.

Cat. 228, xiv. 2.

² المشهور بالفخر الخر[اسا]نی. Thus the author calls himself in his preface.

³ Another MS. (no. 248) has بحکمته.