Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Bijapur 315] الحسامي

• Principles of Jurisprudence.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 315 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 293 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

293.

B 315. Size 11 in. by 7 in.; foll. 124. Nine lines in a page.

A concise treatise on the Principles of Law, by ḤUSÂM AL-DÎN AKHSÎKATÎ (Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ‘Omar Ḥanafî, d. A.H. 644). It is entitled المنتخب فی اصول المذهب, but commonly called الحسامی. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 163 and i. 335;  [Charles] Stewart’s Catal. 151; Cat. Mus. Brit. 118 [ed note: = Cat. no. CCIII, p. 118; Add. 7273 Rich]; and Flügel, Class. Hanef. Rechtsgel. 277.

After a few introductory words, the treatise begins:

فان اصول الشرع ثلثة الکتاب و السنّة و اجماع الامّة و الاصل الرابع القیاس المستنبط من هذه الاصول

The headings occurring in the course of the work are almost the same with those of المغنی as given by Fleischer, Cat. Lips 475 sq.

Boldly written, furnished with copious notes. Date, Dhû-alḳa’dah, 821 [=November-December 1418 CE]. The margin is injured.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1061, from Malik Yûsuf. Seal of Muḥammad ‘Âdil Shâh.

• [ed. note: Quick link to further copies from India: Arabic MS 244 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester) and King's Pote 144 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge).