4S4 REMARKS UPON THE 



decisions, in Bengal Sind Nindoosian, as well as at Con' 

 stantinopJe, and other seats of Mohummudan dominion 

 in Turkey and Tartary. It will therefore be sufficient 

 to state the system of Aroo Huneefah, with the il- 

 lustrations, and amendments of Aboo Yoosup and 

 Im'am Mohummud * ; noticing, after the manner of 

 the Hidayah, any particular opinions of the other 

 orthodox sects, upon points of importance, which may 

 appear to require it. 



It has been remarked by SirW. Jones, in his pre- 

 face to the Sirajeeyah -f-, " that although Aboo 



* Aboo Voosuf Yakoob bin i Ibraaeem ool Koofke, was 

 born ztKrofah, A, H. 113 ; and after finishing his studies under 

 AsooHuNEKifAH, was appointed Kazee o'i Bughdadhy the KliaUtcfah, 

 Hadeb. H« was ai"tervv;i'ds, in the reign of Haroon oo' 

 R-usHEED, made Jitzz/'^ ool Kaozat, or chief Judge; and retained 

 that high, station, (which is paid to have been first instituted lor 

 him) until his deith, A, 1 J. I8' — Ab* o Abdoollaii Mohummud 

 iJiN-i HusuN oo' Shybanee (of the tribe of Shyban) who is usually 

 called Imam Mohummud, was born at Wasit m Arabian Irak, A. H. 

 133. He was ;i fellow pupil with Aboo Yoosuf, under Aboo 

 Huneefah, and (in the deuth of the latter, continued his studies 

 under the form/^r. He is also said to have received instructi'sn 

 from InIalik. He was appointed by Haroon oo'Rusheed to 

 administer jostice in Irak-i Ajuin or Persian Irak, and died at W/, 

 the former capital of that province, A. H. 1/9 •• or, according to 

 the Roiiznt ocri\'aheen, an esteemed history from the cominence- 

 ment to the /5C)th year o( the H/jrah, by Yafiiee, A.H. ISp. 

 (See furihei paiticulars respecting Ab^o Yoosuf and Imam Mc;- 

 HUMMUD, in Hamilton's Preliminary Disconise). Zoofur bin-i 

 HoozEL, and Ilu^•UN BiN-i ZiYAD, (the former of wlioin held the 

 appointu-;ent of ch.ief mugistrate at Bturah, where he died A.H. 

 ir-)S\ w*-r<.' also two distinguished contemporaries, and sciiolars, of 

 Aboo I^\;neefah ; and are sometimes quoted as authorities for his 

 doctrines; espf'.cially jvlicn the two principal difcipics are silent. 



f A work oi" authority upon the Mohummudan law of inheri- 

 tance, translated and published, with a commentary, b- Sir W. 

 Jones, in the year 1/92. This is the only part of tiie Mosulman 

 Digest, undertaken by the venerable judge in 1/88, which his various 

 avocations and studies allowed him to complete. . He deemed it 

 worthy of being exhibited entire, as containing the " Institutes of 

 Arabian law on ij^e imp rtant title mentioned by the British legis- 

 lature (in the .Statute 21 George 111. Chapter I-XX) of inheritance 



