500 REMARKS UPON THE 



works first mentioned are more Calculated for study and 

 instruction. The Fntawa i K^hee Khan by Fukr oo' 

 DEEM HusuN, of Qu^jutid in tiirghand, who was con- 

 temporary with the author of the Hiddyah, and whose 

 collection is esteemed of equal authority with that ce- 

 lebrated work, must, in so!iie measure, be excepted 

 from the above remark ; as it illustrates many cases by 

 the proofs and reasoning upon which the decision of 

 them is founded *. 



The other Fufdvod extant in hulia, besides those al- 

 ready mentioned in the preceding pages and notes, are 

 the Khiiadnul ool Mooftieen^ Futdwd-i- Buzdzivah, FtihU 

 wd' i' Nukshhun-diyah, Mun hool ghufar, and Mokhtdr ool 

 Ftctdwd by unknown authors; the Foosool-i- hturooshee, 

 by MoHUMMUD EiNf-i Mahmood, who compiled it 

 in the 6'25th year of the Hijrah\ ; the Futd^vd-ilhrd- 

 heemshdhiyahy by Sha'hab oo' dken Ahmud. a native 

 oi Hindoo Stan, who composed it for Soolta'n Irbra'- 

 HEEM Sha'h, at Jounpoor, in the Qth century of the 



* A complete and accurate copy of the "^FuUwa-i Kazcc Khan," 

 siripos^ !o have fovmeily belong^'d to the roral library, is among 

 the books of the iV^K-rwiwi ^c^.v/i/if, obtained from Lukh-navj, The 

 authcir yf the "Knshf oo' Zu noon" and the present Kazee col 

 Knozai, concur in extolling this work, a? replete with ca«es oi' com- 

 mon occune'nce, and oonf-equently ot paiticular utility tor practical 

 jcrc-ence. A digest (" Moruttiib") of the cases recited in it i« al- 

 io mentioned in the "Kushfoo' Zaiioon," as made in theicyenth 

 centu'y of the Hijrah, by a learned Syrian, named Mohnmnnid biu- 

 i-Moostufaaiiinder, and entitled "Wuhhajoo' Shureeut." 



t The court of Ni^.artiul Adalut hare a complete C'>py of this com- 

 pilation, presented tn them, wi;;h six other law books purchased at 

 Lukhnow, by the Kazr.e ool Koczal, Mohummud Nujm oo' deen. 

 It consists of thirty sections, upon *' Moamulai" only : like the 

 *' Foosool ool Imadecyah," beforementioned. The contents of 

 both were arranged and incorporated in a collection, entitled " Ju- 

 m -ool Fo isooiyH," by Budr oo' dicii Mahmood; better kr,o\Vn by 

 tilt nam-' of Ibni-Kazeei-Sumawunah, whodicd A. H.823. The 

 author ofthf; " Kushf r>o' Zunoon" states this woikt > be in gre, t 

 estimation with the learned, as a c'vil digest ; but though often 

 quoted as au authority, it is not knowa to be atpreseut iu India., 



