Legal document: JRL B 4346

Legal document JRL B 4346

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JRL B 4346
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Arabic

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Report concerning the death of a Jew named Hiba b. Wafā (or Yehuda?), who drowned in the Nile in the last tenth of Ṣafar, AH 728/early January 1328. The death became known to the community “by widespread and much-bruited rumor.” The formula used here resembles those of the slightly earlier death reports edited by Khan in Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, docs. 125–31. According to Khan, such reports “were presumably addressed to the [government] office of intestate successions” (ibid., 473). This is an incomplete draft.

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John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
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JRL B 4346 1 / 1 leaf, recto

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1 / 1 leaf, recto
Luke Yarbrough's digital edition.

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  1. المماليك ينهوا وفاة هبة بن 〚يو〛يهودا اليهودي في العشر الاخير من صفر سـ[ـنة] ثمان وعشرين <و>سبع (مائة) بالغرق
  2. بين بر الجيزة ومصر في التاريخ المذكور علموا ذلك بالشائع الذائع والاستفاضة
  3. وخلف من الورثة ابوه وفا وامه واخوه [و]زوجته

JRL B 4346 1 / 1 leaf, verso

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1 / 1 leaf, verso
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John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, JRL B 4346. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/35117/ (accessed June 8, 2026).