رسالة: Moss. II,164.2

الوصف

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably with a remnant of the address in Arabic script on verso. Addressed to a certain Abū l-Ḥusayn. Containing an intriguing tale about the sender's regret for seeking the addressee's help, Abū Saʿīd b. Thābit the judge tattling about something to Sayyidnā, and how this isn't what they were used to in the days of the late Raʾs al-Mathība. Someone acted "as if someone had been killed" and made the sender take mighty oaths that he would live nowhere in Egypt except Alexandria, to which the sender acquiesced (קלת אלסמע ואלטאעה), apparently thinking that this wouldn't be enforced (וקלת לרוחי מא יפעל מעי עקיב הדה אלטאעה). The lower part of the page is missing. When the story resumes in the margin, it seems that the adversary is threatening to hand the sender over to the government, and that he must stay in (New) Cairo and not go out to the Rīf.