منحة في ثيقة شرعيّة: DK 314

Recto

In the name of God, the All-merciful. And may God pray for our lord Muhammad, his prophet, and his family, and greet them with peace. 

Marzūq b. Mufrij, the Christian, and Zuraq b. Makhlūf, the Christian, leased in equal shares from Abū ʿAlī Ḥammūd al-Yamēmī the entire //two thirds// of the land of the vegetable garden of which he claimed it was his property.

That garden is found on the outskirts of the city of Alenadria on the northern bank of its Khalīj, and these are its boundaries:

Beyond it, the Khalīj;

To its north, the vienyard of the shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Hādī;

To its west, the brdige separating it frmo the vinyard of Jabbāra and Ismāʿīl.

The outside //of the four borders belongs to the rights of this // this land; and its borders, "castle," well, wooden irrigation wheel, which is fixed in it, and all rights belonging to it, both inside and outside of it, have been leased to them by a legally valid and binding lease for the duration of one entire year of succesive moths, beginning with the first of Shwwāl fo the year 496 (8 July 1103) against a payment of 6 dinars of excellent gold of full weight on condition that the two lessees will pay to the lessor this entire lease in the month of Ṭoobeh, which is the fifth month of the year 467, without delay and without counter-claims against this contract of lease. 

The lessor has ... and delivered to the lessees two thirds of the land of this vegetable garden. They have received it and [acknowledged its receipt] and their taking possession of it by right of their lease until its termination on condition that they plant on it, as long as this lease is in force ... ... all kinds of vegetables and sorts of greens.

The parties have confirmed these oblligations by witnesses after the contract was read out to them and acknowldged by them while they were in good health and full command of their faculties. 

This happened on the nineteenth of Ramaḍān of the year 496 (26 June 1103).