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V.141. ‘All b. Muhammad b. ‘All b. Muhammad al-Mundhiri, Kitab
Ikhti$ar al-adyUn li-ta'lim al-$ubyan. Copied 1372 (1952). [1116]
This would appear to be the same author as Schacht’s item 103, 393,
though there is a different work there in question.
V.142. Jawabat $alib b. Waddab al-Manbl [1101]
The author died in 875-6/1471. Cf. Wilkinson, AS, III, 161, n. 12.
V.143. ‘Umar b. Sa‘Id al-BahlawI, Minhaj al-‘adl. [1294]
V.144. Jumayyil b. Khamls al-Sa‘dI, Qamus al-sharVah, Vol. 29. Copied
1261 (1845). [1610].
This is a ninety-volume work; it is therefore most unlikely that the
whole is extant among those MSS collected by the Ministry in Muscat.
Some early volumes have been published in Zanzibar. The work was
begun in 1206/1791. Cf. Wilkinson, AS, III, 162, item 20. Cf. also GAL,
II, 409, SII, 568. Schacht, 385, 37, who seems to have dated the author
wrongly. Cf. also tf arithi, * Uqud, 281.
V.145. Abu ’1-tfasan al-Bisyanl/al-BisyawI al-Ibadl, al-Mukhta?ar. Copied
1322 (1904). [898]
Mentioned by Schacht, 384, 29, giving no details. See above
V.105-V.106. This was published in Zanzibar in 1886 and forms the
basis of Sachau’s study quoted above under V.106.
V.146. ManthurZt al-asbyakh, Vol. 2. Copied 1147 (1734). [886]
(J.C.W.—This is a compendium of the rulings of I bad! shaykhs from
early times until the Ya‘aribah era. It includes much interesting material
on agriculture, aflaj, etc., as well as on financial matters.)

VI. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
There is a total of 44 MSS in this category, including one or two
photocopies of MSS from elsewhere. One such photocopy is
al-$abifat al-qafrtaniyyah, Rhodes House, Oxford, MSS. Afr.S.3.
Very few of these are worthy of further mention.
VI.147. Khalid b. Hilal b. Salim al-Rabbl, Kitab Ab\al ‘Uman wa-7-
nabdat al-jadldah. [921]
VI. 148. ‘All b. Ibrahim al-ftalabl, Insan al-‘uyun fi slrat al-amln al-
ma’mun. Copied 1084 (1673). [1313]
The work features biographies of early Islamic personalities and badith
material. The author died in 1044/1635. Cf. GAL, II, 307, SII, 418.
VI. 149. An account of the birth of Muhammad. Copied 1254 (1838).
[1340]
VI. 150. Abu Said Muhammad b. Said al-Qalhatl, al-Slrat al-kilwiyyab.
No accession number.
This is an important find, cf. Wilkinson, AS, III, 158-9. The author also
wrote al-Kashf wa-’l-bayan, B. L. MS Or 2606; cf. Rieu, Supplement to
the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts, etc., London, 1894, 122.
Other MSS are copies of al-Saliml’s Tub fat al-a*yan bi-slrat ahl
‘Uman, one complete, one Vol. 2, neither bearing accession
numbers.