Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548 جوي زادة، محمد بن إلياس، ت. 1547 أو 8.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 715
Image Count:
39
Abstract:
Manuscript on Islamic law dealing with how to establish evidence when two or more claiments are asking for shares in someone's inheritance by Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ilyās Jawī Zādah (d. 1547 or 8), a prolific Ḥanafī scholar, muftī and qāḍī of Turkish origin. Copied by Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh, probably in the 17th century, in Turkey
Alternative Title:
Mīzān al-muddaʻīn fī iqāmat al-bayyinatayn, Kitāb Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, ميزان المدعين في إقامة البينتين, كتاب ميزان المدعيين, and ميزان المدعيين
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "... Iʻlam anna al-rajulayn idhā iddaʻayā ʻaynan wa-barhanā fa-lā yakhlū immā an iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan muṭlaqan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sabab wāḥid bi-an iddaʻayā irthan aw shirāʼan min ithnayn aw min wāḥd aw iddaʻá aḥaduhumā mulkan muṭlaqan wa-al-ākhar natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sababayn mukhtalifayn min wāḥid aw bi-sababayn mukhtalifīn min ithnayn ...", 15.5 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 7.5 x 15 cm, different lines per page., Modern binding., In clear unified naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper; with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Preceded by an introduction in Ottoman Turkish (folio 1b-3a) and a table of contents (folios 3b-6b)., Folios 1a and 28b-34b contain advices, proverbs, prayers, poems, invocations, etc. in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian., Several dates are found in the manuscript; the earliest are: [1]101 H [1689 or 1690] (folio 29a) and [11]57 H [1744 or 1755] (folio 31 b)., Ample notes on the margins., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kalām bi-ʻawn Allāh al-Malik al-ʻAllām min taḥrīrāt al-fāḍil zubdat al-anām al-marḥūm al-maʻrūf bi-Jawīʹzādah bayna al-khawāṣṣ wa-al-ʻawām ... Tammat hādhihi al-risālah al-sharīfah ʻan al-ḥaqīr al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-qadīr Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh ..."
Subject (Name):
Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548.
Subject (Topic):
Evidence (Islamic law), Hanafites, Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), and Islamic law
