Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Islamic 2157] التوضیح فی حل غوامض التنقیح

• Principles of Jurisprudence. التوضیح فی حل غوامض التنقیح
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2157 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 319 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

319.

2157. Size 9^1/2 in. by 5^3/4 in.; foll. 290. Nineteen lines in a page.

(ṢADR AL-SHARÎ’AH) 'Ubaidallah b. Mas’ûd b. Tâj al-sharî’ah Maḥbûbî’s (Ḥanafî, d. A.H. 747) [known as صدر الشريعة الأصغر] Commentary (ممزوج) on his own التنقیح, or Principles of Jurisprudence. It is entitled التوضیح فی حل غوامض التنقیح. See  Ḥ. Kh. ii. 444;  Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 195; Stewart’s Catal. 148, etc. Printed at Dehli, A.H. 1267,¹ and at Lakhnau, A.H. 1281.

Well written, the text of the Tanḳîḥ [تنقيح] in red. The colophon runs as follows:

ختم شد کتاب توضیح روز شنبه بوقت چاشت کاتب عبدالغفار بن شیخ محمود بتاریخ بیست سیوم ماه محرم المحرم سنه ۱۰۸۳

Occasional notes. Fol. 134 mutilated.

On fol. 289 is a list of contents, and on its back an English title. Seal of ‘Abd al-wahhâb Khân (A.H. 1168 [=1754-55 CE]).

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

¹ See Bibl. Sprenger. 602.

• [ed note: The colophon states it was copied by عبدالغفار بن شیخ محمود ʿAbd al-Ghaffār bin Shaykh Maḥmūd and finished on 23 Muharram 1083/21 May 1672. The subsequent owner ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Khān was the fourth son of Nawāb Anwar al-Dīn Khān who reigned briefly as Nawāb of Karnatak (1744-49). P. Wibulsilp, Nawabi Karnatak: Muhammad Ali Khan in the Making of a Mughal Successor State in Pre-colonial South India, 1749-1795 (Leiden 2019-04-09).]