Legal document: Yevr.-Arab. I 328

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Legal record (#47) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 16v-17r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo, based on the reference to the venue as the Bayt Simḥa [Synagogue]. Dated 26 Tammuz, without mention of a year. Shemuʾel b. Farjallah ha-Kohen appears before the court in order to summon Ḥabība bt. Yehuda, known as al-Ḥaqqān, testifying that she attacked her paternal cousin Esther bt. Ṣedaqa al-Kohen, known as al-Ḥaqqān. Ḥabība then goes before the judges and testifies that she did not attack Esther (specifically with a shoe "מא נעלת אסתר"), however, a variety of witnesses to the attack then appear before the court contradicting her testimony. In order to resolve the dispute, Ḥabība swears on the Torah that henceforth she will never strike another member of the community. MCD.