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Tafsir with a great volume”). This book consists of four volumes and is devoted to
the interpretation (Tafsir) of Quran. A Turkish researcher, Khudaiwerdi Adam has
emphasized in his research work named as “Najmuddin Abu Khafs Nasafi and his
work “Aqaid” that the work “al-Akmal al-atwal” was an independent book of
Tafsir. The second work is named as “Tafsiri Nasafi” (“Nasafi’s tafsir”). This book
is a Persian translation of the meanings of Quran. This book was studied by a
Persian researcher Azizullah Juwaini and published in Tegeran in 1998
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copies that are being kept in the Funds of Manuscripts of Mashhad, Afghanistan
and Turkey were comparatively studied and published. The third book is named as
“al-Taysir fi al-tafsir”. It was also named as “al-Taysir fi ilm al-tafsir” (“The
easiness in the science of Tafsir”) in sources. It is Nasafi’s most famous book
devoted to the sciences of Quran and its Tafsir. The book begins with a phrase like
“Praise be to the God who has descended Quran as a treatment” and one hundred
names of Quran was counted. Then the approach to the terms of “Tafsir”
(interpretation) and “Ta’wil” (coming back) in the time of the companions and the
approach of later scholars were comparatively analyzed. The book was based on
ra’y and the meanings of the verses were interpreted simply in it
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The books on Hadith and the sciences of Hadith: “Kitab al-kand fi zikr ulama
Samarkand”. This book had names such as “Kitab al-kand min ulama Samarkand”
(“Sweet book on the scholars of Samarkand”) or “al-Kand fi tarikhi ulama
Samarkand” (“Sweetness on the history of the scholars of samarkand”) or “al-Kand
fi tarikhi Samarkand” (“Sweet information on the history of Samarkand”).
“Sharh
al-jami’ al-sahih” (Commentary of the authentic collection). This book of Nasafi
is considered as a commentary to the work “Sahihi Bukhari” written by Imam
Bukhari (died. 256/870) and its full name is “Kitab al-najahi fi sharh kitab al-
akhbar al-sihah” (successful book in the interpretation of the book of the authentic
narrations).
The books on Usul al-fiqh and the sciences of Fiqh: Nasafi’s books on Fiqh
can be divided into “Usul al-fiqh” (The rules of Fiqh) and “Furu’ al-fiqh”
(Practical issues of Fiqh). They are following: “al-Takhsil” (Acquiring), “Sharh
usul al-Karkhi” (A commentary of Karkhi’s method), “al-Manzumat al-Nasafia fi
al-khilafiyat” (Nasafiya poem on the contradictory issues), “Tilbat al-talaba”
(Student’s will). Among the above-mentioned works, “Tilbat al-talaba” is
considered as the first encyclopaedia on Fiqh, the terms and phrases on Fiqh were
explained in it on basis of Hanafi Madhhab of Fiqh dividing into chapters, not in
an alphabetical order.
The second chapter of the dissertation was named as
“Codicological features
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