منحة في ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S Ar.51.104

Recto

1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.

2. The [lit., ‘its’] witnesses [to the case] testified on behalf of Raʾīs Ibrāhīm, called Nātān [i]bn Saʿīd [i]bn Nātān, the Maghribī Rabbanite Jew, Raʾīs ... [al-Yahūd]

3. and spokesperson for them [i.e., the Rabbanite Jews] in legal testimony while he was in a state of health, well-being, free will, and choice and ability to conduct affairs [   ]

4. that he appointed each of Muʿallim ʿAbd al-Karīm [i]bn Mūsā [i]bn Ṣadaqa the Rabbanite Jew living in [   ] [known]

5. as Ibn Ṣanīʿa, and Muʿallim Saʿīd [i]bn Ṣadaqa [i]bn Mu- hadhdhab the Rabbanite Jew, the physician, known as his grandfather, as responsible for [the waqfs of?]

6. the Rabbanite Jews existing in well-protected Cairo and in neighbouring Old Cairo under his [Nathan’s] supervision, known to them legally; and for receiving the revenue of [all of] that [the waqf property];

7. and for renting it out; and for allocating it as commercial or residential property, as they see fit, for the prosperity and benefit of the waqf; and for [the property’s] construction and repair. He appointed the two of them

8. over [all the waqf property] in his own place and approved their speech and action over [the waqf property], together and separately. They accepted that from him [i.e., Nathan] legally and agreed to it

9. in a legal agreement. The aforementioned raʾīs forbade anyone from opposing the two of them among the Jews, seeing fit [to do so] for the sake of the waqf with regard to prosperity, benefit, fit [to do so] for the sake of the waqf with regard to prosperity, benefit,

10. and happiness. This was in the presence of Muʿallim Sulaymān [i]bn Yūsuf [i]bn Shamawʾāl the Rabbanite Jew, known as Son of the Merchant, and his approval of [all of] this

11. and his authentication of the legal authentication. They were appointed as agents to certify this and to obtain a legal ruling on it on the date 26 Ramaḍān the sacred in the year 9[04] [15 May 1499].

Witnesses, first

1. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbās al-Mā ... bore witness to that.

Witnesses, second

1. ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad the renter [?] bore witness to that.