New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 7
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Firuzkuh 7
Afghanistan National Archives
Firuzkuh Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Sale
Ṭāq (Tāgh, Ṭāq-i Murghāb, Tagaw-e Taq (modern))

Physical Description

paper
9 fold lines, complete, black ink.
9

Content

An acknowledgment of a sale of  ⅙ of a bathhouse by Najīb al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Shams al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Jamāl to Zakī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Ghaznawī. This follows a loan between the parties recorded in an earlier acknowledgment. See Firuzkuh 8.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: November-December 1195 (Estimated date range: 1195-11-13-1195-12-11)
  • The Hijri calendar: Dhū al-Ḥijja 591 (0591-12)

People

  • Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. al-Ḥasan
  • Al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān al-Balkhī
  • Ḥasan b. ʿAlī
  • Nāṣir b. Aḥmad
  • Najīb al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Shams al-Dīn Maḥmūd [b.] Jamāl (ʿAlī b. Shams al-Dīn Maḥmūd [b.] Jamāl)
  • Zakī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Ghaznawī
  • Amīrān (?) b. [+ 1]
  • Muḥammad [b.] [+ 1]

Publications

  • Khwaja Muhammad and Nabi Saqee, Barg-hāy az yak faṣl, yā asnād-i tārīkhī-yi Ghur (Kabul: Saʿīd 1388/2009)
    Catalogue Number: 30-31
    The IEDC transcription has been revised from this publication.

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IEDC Data

111
01/04/2024
20/01/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Transcription
Folio:
لله الحمد 1
اقرار کرد امیر علی بن شمس‌ الدین محمود جمال در حال جواز اقرار 2
بران جمله کی بفروخت بخواجه زکی محمد بن محمود غزنوی 3
یک تیر از شش تیر از یک دربند گرمابه که ویرا بود در قصبه 4
طاق مرغاب بموضع پایان دیه حد اول زیرناژ حد ثانی 5
خانه امیر حسن جمال ثالث راه و کوچه و زمین پنج [+/- 2] 6
والثالث تگ آب کرگی و راه با جملگی حقوق و مرافق داخل و خارج 7
گلخن و جامه خانه و دیگ رویی آن بوزن ده من به شانزده دینار 8
فیروزکوهی کهنه کی نیمه بود هشت دینار فروختن درست  9
جایز شرعی ازاله ملک بملک و تحویل دست بدست 10
و قبض کردن تمامت بها فی مجلس البیع خرید [و تسلیم شد ؟] 11
و در تصرف خود آورد و این [+/- 2] فی 12
اواخر ذیالحجیـه ذیالحجه سنه احدی تسعین خمسمایه 13
14 شهد علی صحت اقراره کتبه محمد بن عمر بن الحسن الموذن بخطه اقر بذلک کتبه الحسین بن الحسن بن عثمان البلخی بخطه
15 حسن علی کفچگر برین جمله گواهست بامره شهد بذلک ناصر بن احمد بخطه
16 اقر بما فیه کتبه امیران (؟) بن [+ 1] بخطه هم برین جمله اقرار کرد کتبه محمد [+ 1] بخطه
Translation
Folio:
1 Praise be to God.
2 The amīr ʿAlī b. Shams al-Dīn Maḥmūd [b.] Jamāl has acknowledged, in a state of legal capability for acknowledgement, that
3 he has sold to Khwāja Zakī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Ghaznawī 
4 one share out of six shares of one public bath-house owned by him in the village of 
5 Ṭāq-i Murghāb, at the bottom of the village. The first boundary is [the land called] Zīr-i Nāzh; the second boundary is
6 the house of the amīr Ḥasan [b.] Jamāl; the third [boundary] is the path, lane, and the land [called] Panj [+ 1];
7 the fourth [boundary] is the Kurgī valley. [It was sold] with all its rights and contents, interiors and exteriors,
8 the hypocaust, the changing room, and its brazen cauldron with a carrying capacity of ten mann, at [the price of] sixteen old
9 Fīrūzkūhī dīnārs, half of which is eight dīnārs. The sale was performed in the correct
10 and admissible manner and in accordance with the sharīʿa, [constituting] the transfer of ownership from one to the other, and directly from one hand to the other,
11 and the receipt of the full amount at the time of sale. He purchased [it], received [it], 
12 and took possession [of it]. And this [+ 1, document was written]
13 at the end of Dhū al-Ḥijja in the year 591.
14 Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. al-Ḥasan, the muezzin witnessed the validity of his acknowledgment. [He wrote it] in his hand. Al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān al-Balkhī acknowledged this and wrote this in his hand.
15 Ḥasan b. ʿAlī the shoemaker is a witness. [It was written] at his order. Nāṣir b. Aḥmad witnessed this. [He wrote this] in his hand.
16 Amīrān (?) b. [+ 1] acknowledged what is herein. [He wrote it] in his hand. Muḥammad [b.] [+ 1] also acknowledged in this manner. [He wrote it] in his hand.
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New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 7: Folio (recto)
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