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)

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad, the  prophet, and his family and save them.  

  2. [Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī] al-Khāzinī and his paternal sister  Mubāraka ibnat al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khāzinī, 

  3. [in sound mind] and body, their acts being legal, voluntarily, not forced or  coerced, [acknowledged] that they had received from  

  4. [the hands of] Aḥmad ibn al-Sayyidī, the representative of the glorious Sharīf, the  supreme leader of the Ṭālibīs, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Zaydī for  

  5. [Rabīʿ] II of the year four-hundred and seven nine dīnārs, for Jumādā I three and  a half dīnārs, for Jumādā .  

  6. [II two dīnārs] and an eighth, for Rajab two and a half dīnārs, for Shaʿbān two and  a quarter dīnārs, for the month of Ramaḍān five  

  7. [dīnārs, a half] and an eighth, for Shawwāl three dinars and a quarter, Dhū al-Qaʿda one and a half dīnārs and for Dhū al-Ḥijja of this  

  8. [year, previously mentioned] in this document, three dīnārs. All they received by way of these aforementioned instalments amounted to thirty-two  

  9. and three quarter [dīnārs]. They received that from him wholly, fully and  completely and released him, and his descendants and heirs, from all of it and from any oath  

  10. [upon it or upon] any part of it, with a valid quittance, a quittance of receipt in  full. This is by virtue of a binding right with legal force, which they recognized  he possessed, and the acknowledgement mentioned in this document made it  binding upon them to respect it with regard to him.  

  11. Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khāzinī also stood surety for his sister,  

  12. this Mubāraka ibnat al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar, on her instruction, for any claimant  through the agency of Aḥmad ibn al-Sayyidī, assuming liability for all claims  associated with her,  

  13. [according to what is] mentioned and described in this document, with a valid and  legal surety, incumbent upon him and binding him. He acknowledged that he is solvent to the amount that he has stood surety for in  

  14. [this regard]. Their acknowledgement of what is contained herein was witnessed  after it had been read to them and they acknowledged that they had understood  and recognized it, they being in sound health and their acts being legal. This was

  15. [in Dhū] al-Ḥijja of the year four-hundred and seven.  

 

Witness Clauses 

  1. ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad testified to the acknowledgement by the acknowledger of what is  contained herein. Valid.  

  2. Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sādān testified to 

  3. the acknowledgement of what is contained herein by the man who is the one  acknowledging and standing surety, on its date. Valid.  

  4. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī testified  

  5. to the acknowledgement by the acknowledger of what is contained herein.  

 

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