506 EEMARKS UPON THE / 



The Vtjcdyah was abridged fro.n the Vika^ah by the 

 second Sudr bo' Shureut, already mentioned as the 

 principal commentator on the J'lkmak. It is also 

 called Mokhtusnr ^i Vikayah. and used as a book of 

 instruction, the rules and cases coniaintd in it being 

 committed to memory by the student. But its utility, 

 for legal reference, is superseded by its commentaries; 

 of which there are extant, composed by Aboo'l 

 Muka'uim bin-i Abdoollah, a. H. go/; by 

 AbdoolAlee,Bin-i-Mohummud Birjindee, in the 

 year g37 ; and by Shums oo' been Mohummud, of 

 Khorisian, inC)4]. The whole of these comments are 

 held in esteem ; but the latter, entitled Jama 06* 

 rumooZy is the most copious. * 



The Ashhah 6 Nuz-ayir is an elementary treatise* 

 composed in the tenth century of the Hijrah, by 

 Zyn ool Aa'bideen, already mentioned as the 

 author cf the Buhr~i-dyik. It is stated in the i^ushf 00 

 Zunoon to consist of seven sections, (denominated 

 fun); the two first of which relate to the general 

 principles and rules of law ; and the hhee ool koo^at, 

 in describing a copy of it, wliich belongs to th< 

 Nizdmut Adalut, observes, that '* although a short tract, 

 it contains legal prmcip'ta, from which numerous cases 

 may be deduced ; wherefore to able lawyers it is of the 

 utmost advantage." Thirteen commentaries upon it 

 are noticed in the Kushf 00'' Zunoon, but none of 

 them are known to be in India, -f^ 



place, that in noticing, for obvious reasons, what has appeared 

 upon inquiry to be erroneous ordt:6cient in tiieiate Mr. Hamilton's 

 translation of the " Hiday;;h," no intention whutfver is entertained 

 of impeaching the person;'! merits ^r reputation of that gentleman ; 

 who laboured unde'r a material disidvaniage in not having completed 

 llis arduous -and laudable undertaking in I'niia. 



* Complete copi' s of the three c<-mmentarics are among th« 

 books procuitd from Lukhnow, forihe court oi' NhJmnt Jiddlut. 



t Mou'laveeMohumud l"t:cshid possesses tw<« commentaries on 

 the AbhbaoKuza',yir, one of which, called the «' Ghumzool Oyoon', 



