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Pocock's Specimen, already referred to ; in the 

 Bihliotheque oi D'Herbelot ; and in the preliminary 

 discourse of Sale and Hamilton *. The doctrines 

 of Ma'lik, and Ibn-i Hunbul, arc not known to 

 prevail in any part of India. Those of Sha'piiek 

 have a limited prevalence on the sea coast of the penin- 

 sula; and are understood to obtain among the Malays, 

 and other Mosalman inhabitants of the Eastern 

 Islands. But the authority of Aboo Huneepah, and 

 his two disciples, Aboo Yoosu-p and Im'am Mohum- 

 MUD, is paramount, and exclusively governs judicial 



* Their names, at length, are — 1. Aboo Huneefah Naoma'N" 

 BiN-i Thabit : or, as |)von0unced in India, Saeit. 2. Aboo 

 Abuoollah Malik bin-i-ans, or, as otherwise read. Anus, 3f. 

 Aboo Aedoolla'h Mchummud ibn-i-Idreks oo'SHAFiiEE, or af 

 descendant from Shafu. 4. Ab o Abdoollah Ahmud ibn-i 

 Hunbul. The first is commonly called Aboo Huneefah, 

 meaning the father of Huneepah, and therefore is impto- 

 perly cited, in the translation of the H'tdai/ah, by the nanje of 

 Huneefah only ; which, moreover is a icminine appellation, and 

 was the name of the second wife of Alee. (Vide lit. Hanifah,^ 

 in the Bib. of D'Hekbelot,) He was born at Koofah, about A. H. 

 80; (some say ten, and others twenfy-one, ye.irs earlier;) was in- 

 structed in the traditions, by Imam Jafur-i Sadik. the sixth Imavi ; 

 who, as an authority for tlie ])recepis and actions of Mohummud, is 

 esteemed by the ».9^fl«^^i, as well -as hy X\v:i Shh/ a ; (n )t the Sheeah 

 Doctor, Aboo Jafur, mentioned in a former note j as errneonsly 

 stated in Hamilton's Preliminary Dircourse, p. xxiii. Vid. 'X"it. 

 Giafar in the Bib. Or.) and died in ])rifon, at Baghdad, in the 

 Khildfut of MuNsooR, A. H. 150. The founder of the sec^md 

 sect is known by his iiroper name Malik. He was born at Mu- 

 deenah, between the years QO and g5 i>f the Hijrah ; and died, at the 

 same place, in a state of religions retire;i;eiu, durmg the reign of 

 Haroon oo'llusHBED, A. H. 179- The patronymic, Shajiiee, 

 usually distinguishes the third leader : who was born at Ga%a or 

 Ascalon, in Palestine ; in the hundred and fiftieth year of the Hijrah ; 

 and died at Cairo, (where the famous Salah oo peen, some cen- 

 turies afterwards, founded a College, in h m our of his memory and 

 doctrines,) A. H. 204. The last chief, Ahmud, is more g;enera!iy 

 called, from hisfatiier, Ibn-i Hunbul. He was born at Bughdad, 

 or according to some at Murv, or Muroo, in Khomsan, A. H. lO"4, 

 and died at Bu9;hdad, where he attended the lecture oi SHAFiiSJi, 

 A.H. 241. 



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