AUTHORITIES OF MOSULMAN LAW. 477 



The schisms and dissentions, however, which took 

 place among the Mohummudans, after the demise of 

 their legislator and founder, especially the contest of the 

 succession to the Khilafiit^ or pontificate, which gave 

 rise to the Shiya^ or sectaries of Alee, have occafioned 

 various differences and disagreements, both in reading 

 and interj)reting the words of the Koran, and in ad- 

 mitting or rejecting the traditions, which compose the 

 oral law. There appear to be an error, or verbal inac- 



5. J'ima-i Tirmizee. By Aboo Jeesa Mohummud, of Tirmiz, in 

 Toorkistdn, He is also surnamed Zvreeu or Dhureer, from his 

 blindness. His birth was A. H. 209; and l^'s death in 279. His 

 compilation is noticed by D'Herbelot, under the title of Giame al 

 Kebir; and is erroneously cited (apparently from D'Herbelot,) in 

 Hamilton's Preliminary Discourse, page 36", as quitted in the Hida- 

 yah: instead of the Ji'ima-i-Kubecr, on Jik-h, or jurisprudence, by 

 Imam Mohummud. 



C). Javia-i Nisaee ; called also Soonun-i Nisaee. By Anoo-i abd- 

 00 Rahman Ahmut), (jiNisa,^ city of Khoramn. He was born 

 A. H. 215 j and died in the year 303. This collection is selected 

 from a tbrmer com Dilation, by <he same author, called the Soomm'i- 

 koohra; and mentioned by D'Heubelot, under the m\e oi Sontn 

 Al Keb'ir. 



The four works last mentioned, when cited collectively, bave the 

 designation o^ Soonun-i-urha, or the four collects of traditions. The 

 fliort notices, which have been given, of their compilers, and of the 

 authors of the iSfl/^^^/^yn, aie taken chiefly from ihe Mtrat-ooJraalum, 

 un esteemed general history composed by Bukhtiyar Khan, ia 

 the reign of Ai^rungzeb. They are confirmed, with many other 

 particulars, in the Miskkat, a work of autliority on the traditions 

 admitted by the Soontet ; and used, as a class book, in Mosulman 

 Colleges, with the Sahceh-i Bukhuree, and Saheefi-i Mooslim. The 

 author, Shyk,h VYaleeoodeen, Aboo Abuoollah, Mahmood, 

 who finished his undertaking (to verily and illustrate the traditions 

 coniKined iu a foriner compilation, called the Musabeeho' soonnui, 

 by Hosen BiN-i Musoo-ooD, Fcraeb) a. H. 737, states that the 

 Mo'xutta ofiVlALiK BIN Ans, (the founder of the second orthodox 

 sect, who died A. H. l/P) is, by sjme reck'nied one of the sixth au- 

 thentic collections, instead uf tiie Soonun-i Ibni Majah. He adds 

 that others are of opinion, the Daiumee. compiled by Aboo Mohum- 

 mud Abcoollah of Sumurkund, surnruned Darumee, who was 

 born A. H. ISI, and di.^d in 255, should be classed as the sixth au- 

 thentic. But he has tiimself given this p' ace to the compilation of 

 MoHV'MMUD, the grandson of MAJAtr; and it is commoiily placed 

 third in the series, with reference to the supposed order of publica- 

 tion . 



