Legal document: T-S AS 121.229
Legal document T-S AS 121.229What's in the PGP
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Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. Dated: Monday, 13 Shaʿbān 657 AH, which is 5 August 1259 CE. The deceased is Sutayt bt. Mufaḍḍal. Her heir is her father. The witnesses are Hilāl b. Bū ʿAlī and Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. There is a validation—stating that the witnesses are trustworthy elders of the Jews—written in the hand of the Nagid David I Maimonides, who signs his name "Dāʾūd the son of the ḥākim Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā, Head of the Jews (Rayyis al-Yahūd)." (Information from Khan.)
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Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S AS 121.229 1v
- In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
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The slaves report the death of Sutayt daughter of Mufaḍḍal, the Jew.
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She left by way of heirs having right to her inheritance her aforementioned father.
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This was on Monday, the thirteenth of the month of Shaʿbān, in the year
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six-hundred and fifty-seven. When they (the witnesses) recognized the validity of this they attached their signatures,
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on the aforementioned date. Praise be to God, the eternal.
Witness clauses
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The slave recognizes the validity of this.
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Written by Hilāl ibn Bū ʿAlī on its date.
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The slave recognizes the validity of this.
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Written by Bū Saʿd ibn Sālim on [its date].
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The slave reports that the people who attached their signatures hereto
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are all elders of the Jews whose word can be trusted. Their word is accordingly valid
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and sound in my opinion. Written by Dāʾūd son of the ḥākim Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā,
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head of the Jews.
T-S AS 121.229 1r
