Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 46 [AR 29]
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DOC 46 [AR 29]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Marriage (ʿaqd, nikāh)

Physical Description

parchment
Written on light-coloured parchment.
15.0
13.0
11 lines.

Content

Testimony relating to the dowry of Ḥamra, the daughter of Mīr b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: None
None

People

  • Ḥamra bt. Mīr
  • Mīr b. Bēk
  • Yaḥyā b. Ḥabba
  • al-ʿUdhāfir b. Sṭafwān
  • ʿAbdallāh (the client of Ḥārith)
  • Muḥammad b. Saʿīd
  • ʿAbdallāh b. Sulaymān
  • Khāqān b. Frōdā [??]
  • Khālid b. Shaybān
  • Khīb b. Nashbūd
  • ʿĪsā b. Sālim

Publications

  • Khan, Geoffrey. 2007. Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan (Studies in the Khalili Collection Volume V). London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions. (Pages: 150-151)
    Catalogue Number: 28
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

Related Shelfmarks

IEDC Data

39
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Geoffrey Khan
Thomas Benfry
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Folios
1. recto
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Translation
Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هذا 1
ما شهد عليه يحيى بن حبة والعذافر بن صفون 2
وعبد الله مولى حرث ومحمد بن سعيد 3
وعبد الله بن سليمن وخاقان بن قدودى 4
وخالد بن شيبان وشهدوا على ان هذه 5
الجارية حمرة ابنت مير اوصت عيسى 6
بن سالم وقبض مهرها خمس مية درهم 7
وما كان لها من قليل او كثير من مهر او غيره 8
على خيب بن نشبود وان وصى خيب 9
خلا لها سبيلها فليس له عليها 10
دعوى ولا خصومة وقد برئت منه 11
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate. This is
2 what was testified by Yaḥyā b. Ḥabba, al-ʿUdhāfir b. Sṭafwān,
3 ʿAbdallāh the client of Ḥārith, Muḥammad b. Saʿīd,
4 ʿAbdallāh b. Sulaymān, Khāqān b. Frōdā [??]
5 and Khālid b. Shaybān. They testified to the fact that this
6 girl Ḥamra, the daughter of Mīr, has appointed ʿĪsā
7 b. Sālim as her legatee and he has received her dowry, five hundred dirhams,
8 and what she is owed, of any amount, with regard to dowry and anything else
9 by Khīb b. Nashbūd, and that the legatee of Khīb
10 has granted her freedom of action and has no
11 claim or contention over her and she has been released from him.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Quadruped

The bulla contains ten impressions. They include a respresentation of a horned quadruped facing left. The other impressions are either blank or obliterated or are thumbnail marks.

  • brown
  • animals
Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 46 [AR 29]: Folio (recto)
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