ثيقة شرعيّة: ENA 2559.12

الوصف

Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 17 Adar II 1597 Seleucid = 15 March 1286 CE. The communal officials (khuddām) who collect the capitation taxes in Fustat, namely Hiba b. Abū l-Faraj known as Ibn Daniʾel and Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-Najm al-Parnas, appear before the court with Yaḥyā b. Masʿūd al-Shāmī. Yaḥyā claims that he already paid 1 dinar in Alexandria, however the ḥushshār in Fustat made him pay an additional payment ('the remainder of his capitation tax') of 10.5 nuqra dirhams. They (it seems the ḥushshār, who are different from the khuddām) are requesting a document from the court of the judge Ḥayyim certifying that Yaḥyā paid 1 dinar in Alexandria in order to lift their claim against him (it is not immediately clear whether this refers to the 10.5 nuqra dirhams they already collected or if it refers to an outstanding claim of an additional dinar). Witnessed by [...] b. Netanʾel ha-Melammed ha-Levi Ibn al-[...]lī (he may also be the scribe of the document; also witnessed by the teacher Shemuel b. Ṭahor Ibn al-Shammāʿ