ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S 8Ja1.1
ثيقة شرعيّة T-S 8Ja1.1What's in the PGP
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الوصف
Partnership (sharika) agreement. In Arabic script. Dated: 24 Shawwāl 450 AH, which is 14 December 1058 CE. The three partners are Wuḥaysh b. Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm the Jew; Barakāt b. Ismāʿīl; and Futūḥ b. Nassāj b. Rajā. The partnership is for the trade of horse-cloth in the shop known as 'horse bit' in the compound (rabʿ) of Sulaymān b. Kisā. The capital is 173 dinars. Wuḥaysh is assigned 23, and the remaining money is divided equally between Barakāt and Futūḥ. Wuḥaysh attests that he has received all the money due to him. See Khan's edition for the term "compound" (rabʿ) and the other potential meanings if it is to be read rubʿ instead. (Information from Khan.)
العلامات
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S 8Ja1.1 recto
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In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
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On its (the document's) date, that is the twenty-fourth of Shawwāl of the year four-hundred and fifty,
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Wuḥaysh ibn Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm the Jew appeared before its (the document's) witnesses. His physical description is as follows: A youth of average stature, brown in complexion,
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with a smooth, broad forehead, with a light arch of hair between his eyebrows, with dark brown eyes, with a small round beard,
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both sides of the tuft between the lower lip and the chin being without hair. He is one of three partners, (the other two being) Barakāt ibn Ismaʿīll and Futūḥ
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ibn Nassāj ibn Rajāʾ, in a sum amounting to one hundred and seventy-three Egyptian dīnārs
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for the trade of horse-cloth in the shop known as 'horse bit' in the compound of Sulaymān ibn Kisā.
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Wuḥaysh is assigned twenty-three dīnārs of it and the remainder of the sum is for
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Barakāt and Futūḥ, a half each, divided equally. The aforementioned Wuḥaysh recognized that he had received
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from the aforementioned Barakāt and Futūḥ the money that had been assigned to him and that it had all passed into his possession.