Islamic Law [IO Islamic 2022]

• Law: Ḥanafite.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2022 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 274 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

274.

2022. Size 11^3/4 in. by 7^3/4 in.; foll. 461. Thirty-three lines in a page.

الجزو الثانی من منح الغفار شرح تنویر الابصار تالیف الاستاد الهمام عالم الربع المعمور بالانام شیخ مشایخ الاسلام الشیخ محمد بن عبدالله الغزی التمرتاشی رحمه الله الخ.

The second half of the same work, from کتاب البیوع to the end. The epilogue contains the date of composition, viz. A.H. 997.

Clearly written, probably in Syria. Dated 1^st Ṣafar, 1091. Concludes with the following verses:

یا ناظرا فیه سل بالله مرحمة

علی المصنف و استغفر لصاحبه

و اطلب لنفسک من خیر ترید به

و بعد ذلک غفرانا لکاتبه

An index has been added on a fly-leaf.

The signatures of two later owners, Saiyid Ḥâshim b. S. Ḳâsim b.S. Muḥammad Ibn Zaitûn, and Saiyid Muḥammad, Mufti at Ḥalab (?, المفتی بحلب), A.H. 110, on the title-page.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]