Legal document: T-S AS 44.32
Legal document T-S AS 44.32What's in the PGP
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Legal query to the jurisconsult Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Abū l-Fatḥ regarding liability for damaged property. The house of a Muslim had collapsed onto the house of a Jew, damaging walls, ceilings, timber, marble, columns and household vessels and pots. The question is followed by the legal opinion by al-Ṭūsī (possibly an autograph). Dating: ca. 12th century. On verso there is 1 Kings 7:51-8:11, most of the hafṭara for Pequde (Exodus 38:21-40:38). The title כי אפטרה is written at the top of the extant leaf. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)
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Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S AS 44.32 1r
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
T-S AS 44.32 1v
Verso - Top
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- ما يقول سيدنا الشيخ الفقيه المولا الزاهد العابد
- شهاب الدين وفقه الله لطاعيه في رجل
- يهودى له دار متسفلة و بجانبها دار عالية
- لرجل مسلم فوقعت دار المسلم على دار
- اليهودى وهدمت له جدران و كسر سقوف
- واخشا[ب] احــ[ ] و رخام [ وعمد] و اواني البيت
- من ازيار الى ما سواهم هل يغرم المسلم
- حق اليهودى تلك الجدران و يغرم حق كسر
- الخشب و الرخام و العمد و الازيار و بقية
- ماعونة بعينه او يعطيه قيمة ذلك
- ام لا افتينا يرحمك الله
Verso - Bottom
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هـ ان كان انذر شى وقع
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[ وان]
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لم ينذر ووقـــــــ[ـــــع ]
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الضمان والله اعلم
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كتب محمد الطوســـــــ[ـــــى ]
Verso - Top
- In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
- What does our lord the elder, the jurisconsult, the master, the ascetic, the pious
- Shihāb al-Dīn, may God grant him success for his obedience, say concerning the following: a Jewish man
- has a low house, next to which is a high house
- belonging to a Muslim. The house of the Muslim has fallen on the house
- of the Jew and destroyed walls and broken ceilings,
- timber, [ ], marble, columns and such household vessels
- as earthenware pots etc. Is the Muslim liable to the
- Jew for these walls and is he liable for the breakage
- of the timber, marble, columns, pots and other
- utensils in kind or should he give him (what corresponds to) their value?
- Grant us your opinion, may God have mercy upon you.
Verso - Bottom
- If he gave warning of something that has fallen
- [ But if]
- he has not given warning and it falls [ ]
- liability. God knows best.
- Written by Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī.
