The Memoirs of Bābur 928.5

928.5

1. The _Mubīn_. This year, as is known from a chronogram within the work, Bābur wrote the Turkī poem of 2000 lines to which Abū'l-faẓl and Badāyūnī give the name _Mubīn_ (The Exposition), but of which the true title is said by the _Nafā'isu'l-ma`āsir_ to be _Dar fiqa mubaiyan_ (The Law expounded). Sprenger found it called also _Fiqa-i-bāburī_ (Bābur's Law). It is a versified and highly orthodox treatise on Muḥammadan Law, written for the instruction of Kāmrān. A Commentary on it, called also _Mubīn_, was written by Shaikh Zain. Bābur quotes from it (f. 351_b_) when writing of linear measures. Berézine found and published a large portion of it as part of his _Chrestomathie Turque_ (Kazan 1857); the same fragment may be what was published by Ilminsky. Teufel remarks that the MS. used by Berézine may have descended direct from one sent by Bābur to a distinguished legist of Transoxiana, because the last words of Berézine's imprint are Bābur's _Begleitschreiben_ (_envoi_); he adds the expectation that the legist's name might be learned. Perhaps this recipient was the Khwāja Kalān, son of Khwāja Yaḥya, a Samarkandī to whom Bābur sent a copy of his Memoirs on March 7th 1520 (935 AH. f. 363).[1556]