Legal document: T-S 13J8.31

Legal document T-S 13J8.31

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T-S 13J8.31
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Verso: A note concerning the legal case on recto written several months later by a Muslim qāḍī, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdūn. Dated: Rabīʿ I 434 AH (October/November 1042 CE). He states that the judge (al-dayyān) Yūṣuf b. Sulaymān (Yosef b. Shelomo) and the cantor (al-ḥazzān) Sahl b. Mūsā (Shela b. Moshe) testified before him that the prior betrothal of Sitt al-Dār to Khulayf b. Yeshuʿa Nārūz had been conditional and that her marriage to a different man is licit. Frenkel believes that the Muslim judge made an error in recording the name "Yūsuf b. Sulaymān" and that this is actually the judge Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, active in Alexandria during this period. However, there was also a judge Yosef b. Shelomo (see T-S 24.29 (PGPID 7567)), who may in fact have been the father of Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen (see ENA NS 17.7 (PGPID 11722) and related documents). (Information in part from Frenkel, CUDL, and Goitein's index card.)

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Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdūn

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS 13 J 8, f. 31; TS Box 13 J 8, fol. 31; TS Box 13 J 8, f. 31; TS 13 J 8, fol. 31
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T-S 13J8.31 1v

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Miriam Frenkel, The Compassionate and Benevolent: The Leading Elite in the Jewish Community of Alexandria in the Middle Ages‎ (in Hebrew) (Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, 2006).
  1. حضر عندي يوسف بن سليمان المعروف بالديان وسهل بن موسى
  2. الحزان واعترفا ان العقد الذي كان بين خليف بن يشوعا
  3. بن ناروز وبين ابنة نحيم بن ميمون كان شرطه على سوا(؟) وانها
  4. مطلقة لمن يتزوجها فيه كتبا لي قولهما فيه وكتب
  5. محمد بن ابرهيم بن محمد بن حمدون في شهر ربيع الاول من سنة اربع
  6. وثلثين واربع ماية
Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (Yale University Press, 2026), vol. 3: Encountering Christianity and Islam.

Translated by Dora Zsom

Yosef ibn Sulaymān, known as the dayyan [judge], and also Sahl ibn Mūsā, the cantor, appeared before me and acknowledged that the agreement between Khulayf ibn Yeshu‘a ben Nārūz and the daughter of Nuḥaym ibn Maymūn was on condition . . . and she is permitted to the one who will take the dowry of his daughter . [ . . . ]

Thus wrote Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn in the month of Rabi’ al-Awwal, in the [Muslim] year 434.

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