Philosophy [IO Islamic 1052] Commentary on تهذيب

• Philosophy.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1052 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 538 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

538.

1052. Size 7 in. by 5 in.; foll. 146. Nineteen lines in a page.

الترغيب في كشف رموز التهذيب تاليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة الحبر البحر الفهامة محيى الدين الكافياجى الحنفى.

A copious Commentary on the first part of the Tahdhîb, by Muḥyi al-dîn (Muḥammad b. Sulaimân) KÂFIYÂJÎ (d. A.H. 879). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 482, and regarding the author and his surname, Liber As-Sojutii de nomin. relat., ed [Pieter Johannes] Veth, p. ٢١٨. This commentary is apparently also to be found in Aumer, Hdss. Mûnch., p. 304, no. 673, 2.

This is a commentary by قال and اقول, and it contains the full text of the Tahdhîb. Begins:

الحمدلله الذى هدانا الى سواء الطريق‘ و يسرلنا سلوك مناهج التصور و التصديق

Plainly written, but left unfinished. Slight defects, which are indicated by blank leaves, occur after foll.

49 and 68; another defect, after fol. 76, has been supplied from ‘’a different commentary.’’ In the latter portion several blanks, intended for diagrams and rubrics, have not been filled in. Slightly injured by damp.

The following note regarding the author is on the title-page:

هذا شرح التهذيب الذی قرا الشارح على المصنف و هو ابن خالته سنة.... This MS. was the property of Muḥammad Abu’l-Faḍl Ḳuṭb al-dîn.. Nahrwâlî Ḥanafî.

[Gaikwar.]