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In which four people — the writer, Bū Surūr Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, Faḍāʾil al-Ḥazzān, and Maʿālī Ibn al-Irbilī — testify that Sitt Riyāḍ the wailing woman (al-nāʾiḥa), who owns seven qirats of a compound, donates a third of her part to the Qaraites and a little less than that (7.5 qirats) to the Rabbanites. This is recorded on the left part of a leaf detached from a notebook, apparently belonging to an ʿadl, a "righteous witness," or notary. […]
(Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 294 #63.) See also Goitein, Med Soc II, Appendix A, #164.
Verso: Further accounts of the bookseller, for Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh and Ibn Sibāʿ
Recto: second text block
- שהדת אנא ובוסרור בן אלצבאג
- ופצאיל אלחזאן מעאלי בן
- אלארבלי עלי סת ריאץ
- אלנאיחה ואשהדתנא עלי
- ⟦נפש⟧ ופסהא אנהא קד
- והבה מן //דא…
Recto, second block of text
(1-3) I, and (A)bū Surūr b. al-Ṣabbāgh, and Faḍāʾil al-Ḥazzān Maʿālī b. al-Arbilī are witnesses concerning Sitt Riyāḍ
al-Nāʾiḥa; she made us testify for
herself that she has
donated out of her compound of which she owns 7 qīrāṭs,
eight to the Karaites and 7 1⁄2 to the Rabbanites,
on the middle ten days of the month ...
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