Legal document: T-S Ar.38.43

Legal document T-S Ar.38.43

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Legal document. In Arabic script. Almost complete (missing a small piece from the right side). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 407 AH, which is May 1017 CE. Acknowledgment of the repayment of a debt in monthly installments over the preceding year. Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khazīnī and his paternal sister Mubāraka bt. al-Ḥusayn b. Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khazīnī acknowledge the receipt of the following amounts of money as repayments of a debt from Aḥmad Ibn al-Sayyidī, representative of the head of the Ṭālibīs, Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Zaydī: 479 dinars for Rabīʿ II, 3.5 dinars for Jumādā I, 2 dinars and 1/8 for Jumādā II, 2.5 dinars for Rajab, 2 and 1/4 dinars for Šaʿbān, 5.5 and 1/8 for Ramaḍān, 3 and 1/4 dinars for Shawwāl, 1.5 dinars for Dhū al-Qaʿda and 3 dinars for Dhū al-Ḥijja of the year 407 Hijrī (1017 CE), for a total of 32 and 3/4 dinars. The document is witnessed by ʿAlī b. Aḥmad, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sādān and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAlī. (Information from CUDL and Goitein’s index card)

T-S Ar.38.43 1r

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T-S Ar.38.43 1v

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