al-Mirqāt

Separate prints of the matn: bare, with anonymous or compiled marginal notes ('Mirqāt muḥashshā'), or with a named gloss (the glossed prints are also listed under the gloss). The author names himself in the closing lines (wa-anā Muḥammad Faḍl Imām al-Khayrābādī) and calls the work 'some chapters on the science of the balance' (ʿiddat fuṣūl fī ʿilm al-mīzān). Brockelmann (GAL S III 1303) and the British Library catalogue (Ellis) give the title as al-Mirqāt al-mīzāniyya; most prints say al-Mirqāt or al-Mirqāt fī al-manṭiq. GAL records only this text and the Persian Hadiyya-yi Shāhjahāniyya, and knows no Arabic commentary. The death date differs: 5 Dhū al-Qaʿda 1243/1828 (Nuzhat al-khawāṭir; also the al-Aḥsāʾ edition, the Maktabat al-Madīna edition as one option, and Furber's blurb); 1244/1829 (TDV; the Lahore reprint, from a chronogram by Ghālib); 'd. 1827 or 1828' (Library of Congress heading); 1240 (Maktabat al-Bushrā title page and other Deobandi editions, probably wrong). The 1921 Hyderabad 'Mirqāt' that UW–Madison catalogues under the author is the Urdu translation (separate entry). Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt says the notes in the 1886 and 1888 prints were printed 'by the care of' the named men, while the British Library catalogue calls them their notes; see the entries for ʿAbd al-Majīd and Iʿjāz Aḥmad.

Editions

• Delhi: Maṭbaʿ Sayyid al-Maṭābiʿ, 1286/1869, lithograph, matn pp. 2–32; Munshī Aḥmad Ḥasan Rawnaq (DLI scan)
• Delhi, [1302]/1886: lithograph, 32 pp., 'with ḥawāshī'; ed. with marginal notes by Mawlawī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Majīd, teacher at the Nuʿmāniyya madrasa (British Library 14540.c.37.(3.); Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt p. 335)
• Delhi, 1305/1888: lithograph, 48 pp., 'Mirqāt muḥashshā'; marginal notes compiled from various sources by Mawlawī Iʿjāz Aḥmad (British Library; Muʿjam p. 335)
• Deoband: al-Maktaba al-Raḥīmiyya, 1317/1899, lithograph, 48 pp., 'Mirqāt muḥashshā'; corrected by Mawlawī ʿAbd al-Walī, printed by Muḥammad Isḥāq Ṣiddīqī (Muʿjam p. 335)
• Delhi: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Mujtabāʾiyya, 1322/1904, with ḥawāshī, by the care of Iʿjāz Aḥmad (Muʿjam p. 335)
• Deoband, 1336/1917–18, with Shērkōṭī's gloss al-Mirʾāt (Sarkis 2:1177; Muʿjam p. 241)
• Deoband: Kutub Khāna Iʿzāziyya (Sayyid Aḥmad), n.d. but after Rabīʿ I 1336/Dec 1917 (the date of al-Mirʾāt's colophon; a pencil note on the scanned copy says '1911'), lithograph, matn framed and partly vocalised, pp. 2–64, with al-Mirʾāt in the margins (DLI scan); perhaps the same as the preceding
• Deoband: al-Maktaba al-Raḥīmiyya, 1368/1949, lithograph, 48 pp.; corrected by ʿAbd al-Walī (Muʿjam pp. 335–336)
• [place and publisher not identified], [1956?], 44 pp. (UW–Madison, OCLC 26916813)
• Lahore: Maktaba-yi Qādiriyya, 1398/1978, with Sharaf Qādirī's gloss al-Marḍāt
• Mubarakpur (Azamgarh): Majlis al-Barakāt, al-Jāmiʿa al-Ashrafiyya, 1425/2004, photographic reprint with al-Marḍāt
• al-Aḥsāʾ, 1428/2007: typeset critical text with notes by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad Āl ʿAbd al-Qādir (separate entry)
• Mubarakpur: Majlis al-Barakāt, al-Jāmiʿa al-Ashrafiyya, c. 1430/2009 ('Mirqāt Ashrafiyya'), with Sājid ʿAlī Miṣbāḥī's Urdu Marḍāt ḥall Mirqāt
• Karachi: Maktabat al-Bushrā, 1430/2009; new ed. 1432/2011, 116 pp.; 2020 printing; colour and black-and-white issues; with al-Mirʾāt
• Dabhel (Gujarat): Idārat al-Ṣiddīq, 1435/2014, with al-Mirʾāt and Muḥammad Ilyās al-Ghadawī's Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt
• Karachi: Maktabat al-Madīna (Dawat-e-Islami), Shawwāl 1436/July 2015, 104 pp., with al-Ḥāshiya al-mufīda al-Mishkāt
• Karachi: Maktabat al-Ludhyānwī, 1437/2016, with al-Mirʾāt
• Bareilly: Dār al-Malik, Jumādā I 1444/Dec 2022, 224 pp., with al-Marḍāt and an appendix of short logic tracts; ed. Shāhrukh b. Akhlāq al-Azharī and Mushfiq Riḍā al-Azharī (ISBN 978-81-951219-8-4)
• Dār Yūsuf al-Nabhānī, 2024, 388 pp., 'al-Mirqāh maʿa al-Marḍāh' (bookseller listing; place not stated)
• [Jordan]: Maktaba al-Ghanim, 2025, 632 pp., ISBN 978-9923-640-06-7, with Ḥāshiyat al-Mirʾāt and the versification Sullam al-ruqāt li-naẓm al-Mirqāt
• Islamosaic, 2026: Arabic text with Musa Furber's English translation (separate entry)
• Karachi: Qadīmī Kutub Khāna, n.d., with al-Mirʾāt
• Karachi: Maktabat al-Bushrā, n.d., 'Taysīr al-manṭiq, Īsāghūjī, al-Mirqāt' (3 in 1) (bookseller listing)
• Deoband: Maktabat al-Nūr, n.d., 'Mirqāt maʿa taʿāruf wa naqsha-jāt', with an introduction and charts; Muḥammad Ḥanīf Gangohī is named alongside the author (bookseller listing)
• Dhaka: Islamia Kutub Khana, n.d., 'Merkat [Arabic–Bangla]', with Bengali translation, commentary, charts and exercises (bookseller listing; perhaps the same as al-Ifādāt, separate entry)

Sources

• Aḥmad Khān, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt al-ʿArabiyya fī shibh al-qārra al-Hindiyya al-Bākistāniyya (scan, archive.org 'mo3gam')
• UW–Madison record: al-Mirqāh al-mīzānīyah, Delhi 1886 (BL Early Arabic Printed Books)
• Penn Libraries record: al-Mirqāt al-mīzānīyat, Delhi [1888], ed. Iʿjāz Aḥmad
• Mirqaat, Delhi: Mataba Syed al-Matabe, 1869 (DLI scan)
• Mirqat, Maulana Arshad Khairabadi, Maktaba al-Noor Deoband (quranwahadith.com)
• Tayseer al-Mantiq, Isaghoji, Mirqat (3 in 1, Bushra) – Albalagh
• Merkat [Arabic–Bangla], Islamia Kutub Khana – KhalidBazar
• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. II (1901; repr. 1967), cols. 329–330, s.v. Muhammad Fadl al-Imam, Khairabadi (archive.org scan)
• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. I (1894), cross-references s.v. 'Ali Hasan, Bhupali and I'jaz Ahmad (archive.org scan)
• A. S. Bazmee Ansari, 'Fazl-ı İmâm Hayrâbâdî', TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi 12 (1995), p. 274
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: al-Mirqāt al-mīzanīyat, Dihlī [1888] (EAPB)
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: Mirqāt, Dār al-ṭabʿ Jāmiʿah ʿUs̲mānīyah 1921
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: Mirqāt, [1956?], 44 pp.
• Penn Libraries catalogue: al-Mirqāh al-mīzānīyah (EAPB)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Kutub Khāna Iʿzāziyya, Deoband (DLI scan)
• Sarkis, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt 2:1177 (ketabonline)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Maktabat al-Bushrā (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Maktabat al-Bushrā (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Qadīmī Kutub Khāna (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Maktabat al-Ludhyānwī 1437/2016 (scan)
• al-Mirqāt maʿa taʿlīqihā Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt, Idārat al-Ṣiddīq (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mishkāt, Maktabat al-Madīna 2015 (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Ḥāshiya al-mufīda al-Mishkāt (scan)
• Mirqāt Ashrafiyya, Majlis al-Barakāt, Mubarakpur (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Marḍāt, Maktaba Qādiriyya, Lahore (scan)
• al-Mirqāt maʿa al-ḥāshiya al-jadīda al-Marḍāt (scan with 1398/1978 colophon)
• al-Mirqāt maʿa al-ḥāshiya al-jadīda al-Marḍāt (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Marḍāt, Dār al-Malik 2022 (scan, filed as 'Mirqat_Mawlawi')
• Tanẓīm al-Madāris upload 'ʿArabī shurūḥāt Mirqāt' (contains the al-Aḥsāʾ 1428/2007 edition and al-Marḍāt)
• Besturdubooks: al-Mirqāt fī al-manṭiq (Maktabat al-Bushrā and Qadīmī Kutub Khāna issues)
• Albalagh Books: al-Mirqāt wa-maʿahā Ḥāshiyat al-Mirʾāt wa-maʿahā Sullam al-ruqāt (Maktaba al-Ghanim, 2025)
• MeccaBooks: al-Mirqah maʿa al-Mardah (Dar Yusuf al-Nabhani, 2024)
• Brockelmann, GAL Supplementband III (1942), p. 1303 (archive.org scan)

The main classical Arabic commentary, written for and named after Nawwāb Kalb ʿAlī Khān of Rampur. Later glosses (Sharaf Qādirī's al-Marḍāt, the Dawat-e-Islami al-Mishkāt) draw on it heavily; the Persian Hadiyya-yi Shāhjahāniyya found it too subtle for beginners. Nuzhat al-khawāṭir's entry on ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq does not name it, and TDV mentions it without edition details. The 2019 Amman edition is the first Arab-world edition; its editor announced it on 1 January 2019. Sources disagree on the first print (British Library: [Rampur, 1866]; Khairabadi Institute: 1333/1914) and on the Kanpur print (see editions). Khairabadi Institute wrongly calls ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq the author's son; TDV, Penn and al-Turkumānī make him the grandson (son of Faḍl-i Ḥaqq).

Editions

• [Rampur]: Maṭbaʿ Ḥusnī (of Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān b. Nūr Muḥammad Khān), 1283/1866, lithograph, 384 pp.; printed by order of Nawwāb Muḥammad Kalb ʿAlī Khān, ed. Mawlawī Muḥammad ʿUthmān (Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt p. 277; British Library 14540.c.37.(1.), catalogued as [Rampur] [1866])
• Kanpur: al-Maṭbaʿ al-Niẓāmī, with the matn, corrected by Mawlawī ʿAbd al-Subḥān al-Bihārī (al-Turkumānī's introduction). Date and press differ: 1323/1906, Maṭbaʿ Niẓāmī (Bibliotheca Alexandrina scan record); 1333/1915, 'al-Maṭbaʿa al-Intiẓāmiyya' (Muʿjam) or Niẓāmī (Dār al-Malik preface); Khairabadi Institute gives 1333/1914 as the first edition
• Qusur (Kasur): Shaykh al-Islām Akādimī, 1976, 6 + 222 + 18 pp. (UW–Madison, OCLC 24676364)
• ʿAmmān: Dār al-Nūr al-Mubīn, 2019, 1st ed., 816 pp.; ed. with notes by ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Turkumānī, from the Ḥusnī and Niẓāmī prints (no manuscript found)
• Lahore: Dār al-Islām (Urdu Bazar), photographic reprint of a Kanpur lithograph, followed by Barakāt Aḥmad Bihārī's Risāla fī al-wujūd al-rābiṭī; ihtimām Muḥammad Riḍāʾ al-Ḥasan al-Qādirī; undated in the scan, 2022 according to Khairabadi Institute

Sources

• Penn Libraries: Sharḥ Mirqāt, [Rampur] [1866], 384 pp. (BL copy)
• Penn Libraries: Sharḥ al-Mirqāh, ed. al-Turkumānī, Amman 2019
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina scan: Sharḥ al-Mirqāt, Maṭbaʿ Niẓāmī 1323
• Dār al-Nūr ed. (scan, with al-Turkmānī's introduction)
• Dār al-Islām Lahore reprint with Risāla fī al-wujūd al-rābiṭī (scan)
• Aḥmad Khān, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt al-ʿArabiyya fī shibh al-qārra al-Hindiyya al-Bākistāniyya (scan, archive.org 'mo3gam')
• Nuzhat al-khawāṭir 8/1262–63 (entry ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Khayrābādī), digital text
• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. II (1901; repr. 1967), cols. 329–330, s.v. Muhammad Fadl al-Imam, Khairabadi (archive.org scan)
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: Sharḥ Mirqāt, [Rampur] [1866] (EAPB)
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: Sharḥ Mirqat, Quṣur: Shaykh al-Islam Akadimi, 1976
• ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Turkumānī, Telegram post 489 (1 Jan 2019) announcing the edition
• Khairabadi Institute, 'Chronicles of the Khairābādī Family'
• A. S. Bazmee Ansari, 'Fazl-ı İmâm Hayrâbâdî', TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi 12 (1995), p. 274

Barelwi (Ahl-i Sunnat) gloss, read in the Tanẓīm al-Madāris syllabus (Khāṣṣa, year 1). The Dār al-Malik editors say it relies above all on ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's Sharḥ al-Mirqāt. Its preface defends the study of logic, citing Aḥmad Riḍā Khān. Death year from the 2022 title page. The MeccaBooks description of the 2024 reprint is unreliable: it calls al-Marḍāt a treatise by Faḍl-i Imām and confuses him with his son.

Editions

• Lahore: Maktaba-yi Qādiriyya, 1398/1978, lithograph with the matn, 131 pp. in the scan, 136 pp. in the UW–Madison record (OCLC 22713766); dedication to his teacher ʿAṭāʾ Muḥammad Chishtī Golṛawī dated 10 Muḥarram 1394/4 Feb 1974
• Mubarakpur (Azamgarh): Majlis al-Barakāt, al-Jāmiʿa al-Ashrafiyya, 1425/2004, photographic reprint with a 7-page introduction
• Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): Dār al-Malik, 1st ed. Jumādā I 1444/Dec 2022, 224 pp., ISBN 978-81-951219-8-4; ed. Shāhrukh b. Akhlāq al-Azharī and Mushfiq Riḍā al-Azharī, with a Majmūʿat rasāʾil fī al-manṭiq (Mukhtaṣar al-Mīzān, Taʿrīf al-ashyāʾ, Aṣghar, al-Jawhara al-muḍiyya, Intāj al-shakl al-rābiʿ, Jadwal ashkāl arbaʿa)
• Dār Yūsuf al-Nabhānī, 2024, 388 pp., 'al-Mirqāh maʿa al-Marḍāh' (bookseller listing; place not stated, contents not checked)

Sources

• Al-Mirqaat with al-Marḍāt, Maktaba Qadiria Lahore (scan)
• al-Mirqāt maʿa al-ḥāshiya al-jadīda al-Marḍāt (scan with 1398/1978 colophon)
• Dār al-Malik 2022 edition (scan, filed as 'Mirqat_Mawlawi')
• al-Marḍāt ʿalā al-Mirqāt (2025 upload)
• Meccabooks: al-Mardah al-Mirqah (Dar Yusuf al-Nabhani 2024)
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: al-Mirqah: maʿa al-ḥashiyah al-jadidah al-Mirḍah, Lahur: Maktabah-i Qadiriyah, 1978
• al-Mirqāt maʿa al-ḥāshiya al-jadīda al-Marḍāt (scan)
• Tanẓīm al-Madāris upload 'ʿArabī shurūḥāt Mirqāt, Mirqāt ḥāshiya Marḍāt' (Khāṣṣa year 1)

Presented as 'the easiest commentary' on al-Mirqāt. Dedicated to the author's teacher Qārī Muḥammad Shujāʿābādī; dedication dated 10/09/17 at Chūhanwāla (?), Sheikhupura.

Editions

• Lahore: Shabbir Brothers, Urdu Bazar, August 2017

Sources

• Aghrāḍ-i Mirqāt (scan, title pages)
• Aghraz e Mirqaat (upload by creator name)

A gloss compiled from several glosses, chiefly al-Marḍāt and ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's Sharḥ al-Mirqāt (Niẓāmī print), plus interlinear notes and a biography of the author. Its preface lists earlier works on al-Mirqāt, including the otherwise unknown al-Marsāt.

Editions

• Karachi: Maktabat al-Madīna, 1st ed. Shawwāl 1436/July 2015, 104 pp.

Sources

• al-Mirqāt with al-Ḥāshiya al-mufīda al-Mishkāt (scan)
• Same edition, uploaded from dawateislami.net/bookslibrary/2916

Arabic text with Bengali translation and explanation, an introduction to logic, a biography of the author and review questions. Used at the Hidāyat al-Naḥw level of Bangladeshi qawmi madrasas. The same publisher's 'Merkat [Arabic–Bangla]' (KhalidBazar) may be this book.

Editions

• Dhaka: Islamia Kutub Khana, n.d., 208 pp.

Sources

• Kitabghor: al-Ifadat sharhe Mirkat (Arabic–Bangla)
• BD Islamic online library: list of qawmi books (al-Ifādāt, Siddiqullah)

The first complete English translation found, printed with the Arabic text. The publisher's blurb says the text is taught in parts of North America, the UK and South Africa as well as in the subcontinent, and lists its contents: conception and assent, propositions, syllogistic figures, composite arguments, reductio, the five arts, and the closing 'eight headings' (al-ruʾūs al-thamāniya). The blurb gives the author's death as 1243.

Editions

• Islamosaic, 20 March 2026, paperback, 184 pp., ISBN 978-1-944904-21-0, with the Arabic text

Sources

• Abbey's Bookshop: Al-Khayrabadi's Ladder to Logic (ISBN 9781944904210)
• preigu.de: Al-Khayrabadi's Ladder to Logic

Known only from the list 'Names of some commentaries and glosses on al-Mirqāt' in the Maktabat al-Madīna edition (p. xiii), where it is third after ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's Sharḥ and al-Marḍāt. No copy or print found. The language is assumed from the Arabic title.

Sources

• al-Mirqāt, Maktabat al-Madīna 2015, p. xiii (scan)

An edition made in al-Aḥsāʾ (eastern Arabia) by a student of Shaykh Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Mulla, head of al-Madrasa al-Sharʿiyya al-Ḥanafiyya there, with whom he read the matn. Finding no manuscript, he used an undated lithograph from Qurʾān Maḥall, Karachi, with Shērkōṭī's al-Mirʾāt in the margin. He modernised spelling and punctuation, supplied headings for the untitled chapters in square brackets, added notes selected from al-Mirʾāt (marked ḥ) and his own (marked ʿ), dropped the author's Persian words, and added a biography of the author (d. 1243). The only Arab-world work on al-Mirqāt found before the Amman edition of ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's Sharḥ (2019).

Editions

• al-Aḥsāʾ, preface dated 26 Rajab 1428/Aug 2007: typeset edition (PDF; no imprint or publisher in the copy seen)

Sources

• Internet Archive: Tanẓīm al-Madāris upload 'ʿArabī shurūḥāt Mirqāt', file 'al-Mirqāt fī ʿilm al-manṭiq' (title page and editor's preface)

Arabic gloss, still printed in the margins of the standard Deobandi editions in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the basis of the notes in the al-Aḥsāʾ edition (1428/2007), which was made from a Karachi lithograph with al-Mirʾāt. Its preface says the author found al-Mirqāt the most concise of matns and wrote a gloss to be read with it. It quotes the Persian Hadiyya-yi Shāhjahāniyya. The nisba is al-Shērkōṭī on the title pages; the digital text of Sarkis has 'al-Shērkōnī'. Its use outside South Asia: a Jordanian (ISBN 978-9923) edition of 2025 and a course in Texas.

Editions

• Deoband, 1336/1917–18 (Sarkis, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt 2:1177; Aḥmad Khān, Muʿjam p. 241)
• Deoband: Kutub Khāna Iʿzāziyya (Sayyid Aḥmad), n.d., lithograph with the matn; the gloss's colophon is dated 13 Rabīʿ I 1336/Dec 1917 (a pencil note '1911' on the scanned copy is therefore too early)
• Karachi: Qadīmī Kutub Khāna, n.d. (also a Bangladeshi copy uploaded)
• Karachi: Maktabat al-Bushrā, 1st ed. 1430/2009, new ed. 1432/2011, 116 pp.; a 2020 printing was the set text of a logic course in Richardson, Texas (Sept.–Dec. 2025)
• Dabhel (Gujarat): Idārat al-Ṣiddīq, 1435/2014, with Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt below it
• Karachi: Maktabat al-Ludhyānwī, 1st ed. 1437/2016
• [Jordan]: Maktaba al-Ghanim, 2025, 632 pp., ISBN 978-9923-640-06-7, with Sullam al-ruqāt li-naẓm al-Mirqāt (the bookseller does not name the glossator of this 'Ḥāshiyat al-Mirʾāt'; assumed to be Shērkōṭī's)

Sources

• Sarkis, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt 2:1177 (ketabonline)
• Aḥmad Khān, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt al-ʿArabiyya fī shibh al-qārra al-Hindiyya al-Bākistāniyya (scan, archive.org 'mo3gam')
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Kutub Khana Iʿzaziya Deoband (DLI scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Maktabat al-Bushrā (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Qadīmī Kutub Khāna (scan)
• al-Mirqāt with al-Mirʾāt, Maktabat al-Ludhyānwī 1437/2016 (scan)
• Goodreads: al-Mirqāt maʿa ḥāshiyat al-Mirʾāt wa-taʿlīqāt Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt (Shērkōṭī named as commentator)
• Internet Archive: al-Mirqāt maʿa ḥāshiyatihā al-jadīda al-mufīda … al-Mirʾāt, Maktabat al-Bushrā (title page and imprint seen)
• Internet Archive: al-Mirqāt maʿa taʿlīqihā Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt (Idārat al-Ṣiddīq, Gujarat)
• Albalagh Books: al-Mirqāt wa-maʿahā Ḥāshiyat al-Mirʾāt wa-maʿahā Sullam al-ruqāt li-naẓm al-Mirqāt (Maktaba al-Ghanim, 2025)
• Syllabus 'Logic Through the Mirqāt of al-Khayrābādī' (Jonah Rudolph, Richardson TX, Fall 2025)

Barelwi Urdu commentary, part of the Tanẓīm al-Madāris (Khāṣṣa year 1) set of Urdu shurūḥ. Madaris.pk credits an 'al-Taqrīrāt sharḥ Mirqāt' to 'Ashraf Hussain Attari' (Maktabat al-Muṣṭafā). That is either an error or a different book; not resolved.

Editions

• Lahore: Maktaba Fārūqiyya, Jāmiʿa Fārūqiyya Riḍawiyya, 1st ed. (1,000 copies), 349 pp., n.d.; commendations by ʿAṭāʾ Muḥammad Bandyālawī, Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Bandyālawī and ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm Sharaf Qādirī

Sources

• al-Taqrīrāt (scan, title pages)
• al-Taqrīrāt (earlier upload)
• Tanẓīm al-Madāris Urdu shurūḥ upload (Aghrāḍ, Tanwīrāt, Taqrīrāt)
• Madaris.pk list

Urdu commentary: idiomatic translation first, then explanation, with examples. Preface by 'Mīr Muḥammad'.

Editions

• Multan: Maktaba Sharikat-i ʿIlmiyya (printer Sharjīl Press), 2000, 127 pp., 550 copies

Sources

• al-Tashrīḥāt Urdu sharḥ Mirqāt (scan, title pages)
• Besturdubooks: Al Tashrihat Urdu Sharh Al Mirqat

A collection of notes 'sourced from various Arabic, Urdu and English works on manṭiq', meant as an aid beside the Arabic al-Mirqāt, not to be studied on its own (publisher's description). Moolla is named as editor and abridger, not as author. The language is taken from the English title and description; the PDF was not checked.

Editions

• Azaadville (South Africa): Maktabah al-Imam al-Ghazālī, 1st ed. 1446/2025

Sources

• Besturdubooks: Explanatory Notes on Al-Mirqat by Mufti Abdullah Moolla (al-Taʿlīqāt al-muntaqāt ʿalā al-Mirqāt)

A Persian (Dari) commentary for Afghan students in the Ḥaqqāniyya milieu. The imprint calls it a translation (tarjuma) by Inʿām Allāh Ḥabībī Samangānī, whose nisba points to Samangan in northern Afghanistan (the contact number is Afghan). The original by Zāhid ʿAzīzkhēl, presumably Pashto or Urdu, has not been found. Printed as 'Bi-ḥall al-ʿawīṣāt'; the hosting site reads 'Ḥall al-ʿawīṣāt'.

Editions

• Akora Khattak: Maktabat al-Ḥaram (near Jāmiʿa Dār al-ʿUlūm Ḥaqqāniyya), n.d.; typeset at Ṣāfī Printers, Qiṣṣa Khwānī, Peshawar; 209 pp. in the PDF

Sources

• Maktabatul Ishaat: Halu al-Eawaysat Farsi Sharh Mirqat (PDF title pages checked)

Urdu commentary 'decorated with examples from outside the text'. Known from the bookseller page; the book itself was not checked.

Editions

• Deoband: Kutub Khāna Naʿīmiyya, n.d., 240 pp.

Sources

• Besturdubooks: Dars e Mirqat

A Persian commentary for beginners; the title presumably honours Shāhjahān Begum of Bhopal. Al-Turkumānī, citing its preface, says the author found ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's commentary too subtle for beginners and added notes heard from his teacher Ilāhī Bakhsh while reading al-Mirqāt with him. Sources differ on the author. The print and the Western catalogues name Sayyid ʿAlī Ḥasan Bhōpālī (GAL: 'ʿA. Ḥ. Bhopālī'). Nuzhat al-khawāṭir (8/1191) says that Ilāhī Bakhsh, tutor to the sons of Nawwāb Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān, wrote a Persian sharḥ of al-Mirqāt and ascribed it to Sayyid ʿAlī Ḥasan, i.e. Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān's son; Edwards's catalogue of Persian printed books, by contrast, keeps this ʿAlī Ḥasan Bhōpālī apart from Sayyid ʿAlī Ḥasan Khān b. Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān. Nuzhat's death year for Ilāhī Bakhsh ('1036', Mecca) is a textual error, so no date is given here. Shērkōṭī's al-Mirʾāt quotes 'the Persian commentary called Hadiyya-yi Shāhjahāniyya', and Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt cites a 'Shāhjahānī, ḥāshiya Mirqāt', probably the same work. It is the only commentary on al-Mirqāt in Brockelmann (GAL S III 1303).

Editions

• Kanpur (Cawnpore), 1296/1879: lithograph, folio, 160 pp. (British Library 14540.d.8; Gale 'Early Arabic Printed Books', OCLC 978591460; Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt p. 336; GAL S III 1303)
• Probably the same print: 'Sharh-e-Farsi Mirqat', Kanpur: Maṭbaʿ Niẓāmī, 1878, 164 pp. (Rekhta e-book from Jamia Hamdard; 1296 began in December 1878; not checked page by page)

Sources

• Penn Libraries: Hadīyah i Shāhjahānīyah, Kānpūr [1879]
• UW–Madison: Hadīyah i Shāhjahānīyah
• Nuzhat al-khawāṭir 8/1191 (Shamela): entry Ilāhī Bakhsh al-Fayḍābādī
• Aḥmad Khān, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt al-ʿArabiyya fī shibh al-qārra al-Hindiyya al-Bākistāniyya (scan, archive.org 'mo3gam')
• Rekhta: Sharh-e-Farsi Mirqat (Kanpur 1878)
• al-Turkmānī's introduction to Sharḥ al-Mirqāt (scan)
• Brockelmann, GAL Supplementband III (1942), p. 1303 (addendum to S II 625, no. 12): 'M. Faḍl al-Imām, al-Mirqāt al-mīzāniyya, dazu pers. Cmt. v. ʿA. Ḥ. Bhopālī, Hadiye'i Shāhjahāniye, Cawnpore 1296' (archive.org scan)
• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. I (1894), cross-references s.v. 'Ali Hasan, Bhupali and I'jaz Ahmad (archive.org scan)
• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. II (1901; repr. 1967), cols. 329–330, s.v. Muhammad Fadl al-Imam, Khairabadi (archive.org scan)
• E. Edwards, A Catalogue of the Persian Printed Books in the British Museum (1922), s.v. 'Ali Hasan, Bhopali, Sayyid (archive.org scan)

The imprint gives Iftikhār ʿAlī as muʾallif and Abū Hilāl ʿAbd al-Khāliq (graduate of al-Jāmiʿa Imdād al-ʿUlūm al-Islāmiyya, Peshawar) as translator. It is thus a Pashto version of a commentary by Iftikhār ʿAlī whose original (probably Urdu) has not been identified; it may be Iftikhār Aḥmad's Tawḍīḥāt, but that is unverified. The hosting page is wrong: it names Faḍl-i Imām as the author and calls Mirqāt a gloss on Mullā Jalāl's Sharḥ al-Sullam.

Editions

• Peshawar: Maktaba-yi Raḥmāniyya, Qiṣṣa Khwānī, 2016, 1,000 copies; 257 pp. in the PDF

Sources

• Maktaba Tul Ishaat: Kamalat Pashto Sharah Mirqat (cover and imprint of the PDF seen)

An Urdu gloss whose title is a chronogram (ism tārīkhī) for 1430/2009, printed after the matn in 'Mirqāt Ashrafiyya'. The Dār al-Malik preface calls it an Urdu work, and the archive.org upload describes the volume as the matn 'with Urdu ḥāshiya at the end'. Not to be confused with Sharaf Qādirī's Arabic al-Marḍāt.

Editions

• Mubarakpur (Azamgarh): Majlis al-Barakāt, al-Jāmiʿa al-Ashrafiyya, n.d. (title is a chronogram for 1430/2009), printed after the matn as 'Mirqāt Ashrafiyya'

Sources

• Mirqaat Ashrafiyya (scan, title page)
• Mirqat Mirzat Hal Mirqat (upload)
• Dār al-Malik edition preface listing the commentaries

Known only from this print. The British Library catalogue (Ellis, and the Gale record) describes it as 'edited, with marginal notes, by Maulavī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Majīd'; Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt says only that it was printed with ḥawāshī by his care, so his authorship of the notes is not certain. Nothing else is known about him.

Editions

• Delhi, [1302]/1886: lithograph, 32 pp., printed with the matn (British Library 14540.c.37.(3.); Gale 'Early Arabic Printed Books', OCLC 978560151)

Sources

• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. II (1901; repr. 1967), cols. 329–330, s.v. Muhammad Fadl al-Imam, Khairabadi (archive.org scan)
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: al-Mirqāh al-mīzānīyah, Dihlī 1886, ed. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Majīd
• Aḥmad Khān, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt al-ʿArabiyya fī shibh al-qārra al-Hindiyya al-Bākistāniyya (scan, archive.org 'mo3gam')

A compilation of marginal notes 'from various sources' (Ellis), not an original gloss. Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt says the 1888 and 1904 prints were made by his care, without calling the notes his. Ellis lists the same Iʿjāz Aḥmad as editor of a Kāfiya with a Persian marginal commentary (1889).

Editions

• Delhi, 1305/1888: lithograph, 48 pp., printed with the matn (British Library; Gale 'Early Arabic Printed Books', OCLC 978492351)
• Delhi: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Mujtabāʾiyya, 1322/1904, the matn 'with ḥawāshī' by the care of Iʿjāz Aḥmad (Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt p. 335; presumably the same notes)

Sources

• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. I (1894), cross-references s.v. 'Ali Hasan, Bhupali and I'jaz Ahmad (archive.org scan)
• A. G. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, vol. II (1901; repr. 1967), cols. 329–330, s.v. Muhammad Fadl al-Imam, Khairabadi (archive.org scan)
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: al-Mirqāt al-mīzanīyat, Dihlī [1888], ed. Iʿjāz Aḥmad
• Aḥmad Khān, Muʿjam al-maṭbūʿāt al-ʿArabiyya fī shibh al-qārra al-Hindiyya al-Bākistāniyya, p. 335 (scan, archive.org 'mo3gam')
• Penn Libraries record: al-Mirqāt al-mīzānīyat, Delhi [1888], ed. Iʿjāz Aḥmad

Translated by order of Osmania University for its matriculation syllabus. Several DLI and Rekhta scans exist. UW–Madison catalogues a 'Mirqāt', Dār al-Ṭabʿ Jāmiʿa ʿUthmāniyya 1921 (online copy), under Faḍl-i Imām with the language given as English; it is evidently this translation.

Editions

• Hyderabad (Deccan): Dār al-Ṭabʿ Sarkār-i ʿĀlī, 1339/1330 F./1921, 59 pp. (series 'Niṣāb-i silsila-yi taʿlīm-i Jāmiʿa-yi ʿUthmāniyya')

Sources

• Marqaat, Hyderabad 1921 (DLI scan, title page)
• Mirqat, Dār al-Ṭabʿ Jāmiʿa ʿUthmāniyya 1921 (DLI scan)
• Rekhta: Marqat, tr. Syed Haidar Husaini
• UW–Madison Libraries catalogue: Mirqāt, Dār al-ṭabʿ Jāmiʿah ʿUs̲mānīyah 1921

Question-and-answer exam notes in Urdu. The preface warns students not to rely on the notes alone.

Editions

• PDF, al-Farīd Online Academy, 2026 (archive.org upload)

Sources

• Mirqāt ke notes (upload)

Urdu translation and commentary.

Editions

• Multan: Maktaba Imdādiyya, n.d., c. 280 pp.

Sources

• Maktabatul Ishaat: Shazraat Urdu Sharh Mirqat (PDF cover checked)
• Besturdubooks: Shazaraat

A versification of al-Mirqāt for memorisation, known only from the bookseller's description of the 2025 edition. The ISBN prefix 978-9923 is Jordan's, but the versifier, date, metre and region are unknown. The only naẓm of al-Mirqāt found.

Editions

• [Jordan]: Maktaba al-Ghanim, 2025, in one volume with al-Mirqāt and Ḥāshiyat al-Mirʾāt, 632 pp., ISBN 978-9923-640-06-7

Sources

• Albalagh Books: al-Mirqāt … wa-maʿahā Sullam al-ruqāt li-naẓm al-Mirqāt (Maktaba al-Ghanim, 2025)

Urdu commentary for beginners. The 1418 commendation implies an earlier first edition.

Editions

• Ghosi (Mau, U.P.): Amjadi Book Depot, 2015 (revised, 'with additions'), 1,100 copies; commendation by Ḍiyāʾ al-Muṣṭafā Qādirī dated 21 Shawwāl 1418/1998

Sources

• Tafhīmāt sharḥ Mirqāt (scan, title pages)

Urdu commentary. The archive.org uploader calls him 'Muftī Ẓafar ʿĀlam Qāsimī'.

Editions

• Deoband: Dār al-Kitāb, January 2000 (year as read from the scan), 304 pp.

Sources

• Taḥqīqāt sharḥ-i Urdū Mirqāt (scan, title pages)

A Pashto commentary with translation for Pashto-speaking madrasa students, aimed at Wifāq al-Madāris exam candidates. The kunya is read from the imprint as 'Abū Ḥammās'.

Editions

• Peshawar: Maktaba-yi Ḥaqqāniyya, Maḥalla Jangī, Qiṣṣa Khwānī, 2018 printing (revised by the author), under the supervision of al-Ḥājj Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī; 226 pp. in the PDF

Sources

• Maktabatul Ishaat: Tahseenat Pashto Sharah Mirqat (PDF title pages checked)

Urdu translation with explanatory solution ('mutarjim' on the title page). Part of the Tanẓīm al-Madāris Urdu shurūḥ upload.

Editions

• al-Majmaʿ al-Ḥashmatī (printed Raza Offset Press, Delhi), 1st ed. Muḥarram 1436/Oct 2014, 1,000 copies

Sources

• Tanwīrāt fī ḥall Mirqāt (scan, title pages)
• Tanwrat Fi Hall Marqat (upload with author)
• Maktabatul Ishaat: Tanowraat Urdu Tarjuma Mirqat

New annotations to al-Mirqāt, printed below Shērkōṭī's al-Mirʾāt: modern spelling and punctuation, vocalisation of difficult words, contemporary examples, and extra notes signed 'Muḥammad Ilyās'. Also digitised for al-Maktaba al-Shāmila. The Tanẓīm al-Madāris upload titled 'Mirqāt matn maʿa sharḥ' is this edition. The title page of the copy seen gives 1435/2014 for the first edition; a copy on archive.org was uploaded in 2019.

Editions

• Dabhel, Gujarat: Idārat al-Ṣiddīq, 1st ed. 1435/2014, c. 300 pp.; revised by Muftī Kalīm al-Dīn al-Katakī (teacher at Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband), with help from Muftī Ṭufayl al-Pālanpūrī

Sources

• al-Mirqāt maʿa taʿlīqihā Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt (scan, with Shamela data)
• 'Mirqāt matn maʿa sharḥ' (Tanẓīm al-Madāris Khāṣṣa year 1 upload)
• Goodreads record
• Besturdubooks: al-Mirqāt maʿa Taqwiyat al-Mirqāt (Ilyās b. ʿAbd Allāh Ghadawī)

Tree diagrams (tashjīr) of the whole matn, with footnotes that cite Shērkōṭī's al-Mirʾāt. Place and date unknown, so the region is not established.

Editions

• PDF, 34 pp., n.d. (via Maktabatul Ishaat)

Sources

• Maktabatul Ishaat: Tashjeer Kitab ul Mirqat (PDF checked)

Urdu commentary. The Pashto Kamālāt translates a commentary credited to a 'Mawlānā Iftikhār ʿAlī, teacher at Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband'; whether that is this Iftikhār Aḥmad and this book is unconfirmed.

Editions

• Deoband: Kutub Khāna Ḥusayniyya, 2011, 234 pp. (Rekhta)
• Multan: Maktaba Ḥaqqāniyya, n.d. (scan; Madaris.pk also names Maktaba Ḥaqqāniyya, Akora Khattak)

Sources

• Tawḍīḥāt (scan, title page)
• Rekhta: Tauzihat Sharh Urdu Marqat
• Maktabatul Ishaat: Tozihat

Lecture-based Urdu commentary (afādāt) with matn, iʿrāb, translation, explanation, notes and charts. Translated into Pashto and into Persian (Dari), both as 'Tashrīḥāt' (separate entries).

Editions

• Kabirwala (Khanewal): Idārat al-Taṣnīf, Dār al-ʿUlūm Kabīrwālā / Maktaba Dār al-ʿUlūm, March 2007

Sources

• Tuhfat al-Manzoor (scan, title pages)
• Maktabatul Ishaat: Tohfat ul Manzoor
• Madaris.pk: Mirqāt Urdu shurūḥ for Thāniya ʿĀmma