This primarily concerns two facsimiles of manuscripts by the jurist Abu Layth Samarqandi (944–983 AD), a representative of the Hanafi school of law (one of the four legal schools in Sunni Islam), who worked during the rule of the Samanid dynasty. The manuscript "Bustan al-’arifin" ("The Orchard of Knowledgeable Ones") contains 153 chapters, comprising 112 pages, and is dated to 1628.
The manuscript "Kitab al-Bustan" ("The Book of the Orchard") contains 160 chapters, comprising 170 pages, and is dated to 1670. Both manuscripts address similar themes: the significance of science and human knowledge, Islamic law, logic, contain fatwas, narrate about good manners, attitudes towards parents, relationships between people and animals, etc. Additionally, the second manuscript includes an interpretation of hadiths proposed by Abu Layth Samarqandi.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Collection of the Czech Republic" (Volume XVI) in the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
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