Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 40
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DOC 40
Khalili Collection
Silver (given following internal peer review)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Debt
Balkh

Physical Description

paper
Complete, black ink; verso side blank.
10
horizontal

Content

Debt acknowledgement concerning a sum of five dinars. This is one of the few Arabic documents from the 11th-to-13th century documents coming from Afghanistan. The scribe identifies himself after the date clause, which is followed by five additional witness clauses.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 28 April 1214 (1214-04-28)
  • The Hijri calendar: 09 Dhū al-Ḥijja 610 (0610-12-09)

People

  • Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd
  • Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī
  • Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿUmar
  • Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Aḥmad
  • Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī
  • Abū Ṭālib b. [A]bī al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan
  • ʿUmar b. [A]bī Bakr b. ʿAlī
  • Abū al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad
  • ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad

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IEDC Data

256
30/09/2024
24/02/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee
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Folios
1. recto
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Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم 1
اقر محمد بن محمد بن محمود (؟) الامیر (؟) المقیم بمحلة تخت بندان (؟) بلخ 2
فی [+ 1] البدن الرای (؟) اتم (؟) اقرارا (?) طایعا راضیا فی حال 3
جواز اقراره ان علیه وفی ذمته (؟) للشیخ محمد بن ابراهیم بن علی 4
من [+ 2] الجاریة خمسة دنانیر نصفها دینارین 5
ونصف دینار وزن مثقال بلخ دینا واجبا لازما ثابتا 6
وهو عين ماله على امانة (؟) الله (؟) ومحلته مضی خمسة اشهر من 7
تاریحه وصدقه علیه (؟) التاسع من ذی الحجة سنه 8
عشر وستمائة 9
اقر به وکتبه محمد بن علی بن عمر الخراط 10
11 اقر يه كتبه احمد بن عبيد الله بن احمد بخطه اقر به كتبه ابو طالب بن بي الحسن بن الحسن [+ 1] بخطه (؟)
12   اقر به كتبه عمر بن بي بكر بن علي بخطه
13   اقر به طايعا كتبه ابو الحسن بن الحسين بن محمد بخطه
14 اقر به كتبه محمد بن عمر بن علي بخطه  
15   اقر بما فيه كتبه علي بن الحسين بن محمد بخطه
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
2 Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd, the amīr (?), who dwells in the quarter of Takht-Band in Balkh,
3 in [sound ?] body [and] mind (?), voluntarily [and] willingly,
4 legally capable of acknowledgement, the following: he owes the shaykh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī,
5 [a sum of] five dinars, half of which is two and a half dinars, in the current [... + 2],
6 in the mithqāl weight of Balkh. [It is] a binding, obligatory and definitive debt.
7 It [should be repaid] at the equivalent value (?), with God’s protection. The [repayment] is due within five months from
8 the date of [this document]. He corroborated his [acknowledgement on the date of] the 9th of Dhū al-Ḥijja in the year 610.
9 Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿUmar, the turner, acknowledged this and wrote it in his hand.
10 Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Aḥmad acknowledged this and wrote it in his hand. Abū Ṭālib b. [A]bī al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan, the [+ 1], acknowledged this and wrote it in his hand (?).
11   ʿUmar b. [A]bī Bakr b. ʿAlī acknowledged it and wrote it in his hand.
12   Abū al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad acknowledged this voluntarily and wrote it in his hand.
13 Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī acknowledged this and wrote it in his hand.  
14   ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad acknowledged what is herein and wrote it in his hand.
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