Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 36 [AR 5]
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DOC 36 [AR 5]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Slavery and Manumission

Physical Description

parchment
Written on light coloured parchment, the writing surface shows staining and ink smudges in places.
15.0
12.0

Content

Emancipation of a slave Zeran and of the children she had by her owner Saʿīd.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: July-August 755 (Estimated date range: 0755-07-20-0755-08-17)
  • The Hijri calendar: Ṣafar 138 (0138-09)

People

  • Ghālib b. Nāfiʿ
  • Zeran
  • Saʿīd
  • Umm ʿAbdallāh bt. Saʿīd
  • ʿUmar b. Saʿīd
  • Muslim b. Saʿīd
  • Naṣr b. Saʿīd
  • ̣Ṭalḥa b. Khulayd
  • ʿUmayr b. Salīm
  • Yaḥyā b. ʿĀriḍ
  • al-Ḥakam b. al-Ṭall
  • Yaḥyā b. Ṭalḥa
  • Sām (the freedman of Ghālib)
  • Ḥarīth b. Aʿyan
  • ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭarkhān

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: 152-4)
    Catalogue Number: 29
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

42
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 1
هذا ما اعتق غالب بن نافع اعتق زرن 2
ام ولد سعيد مولاه وولدها ام عبد 3
الله بنت سعيد وعمر بن سعيد 4
ومسلم بن سعيد ونصر [بن] سعيد 5
عتقهم لوجه ليس لاحد عليهم 6
سبيل الا سبيل الولا شهد 7
طلحة بن خليد وعمير بن سليم ويحيى بن 8
عارض والحكم بن الطل ويحيى بن طلحة 9
وسام مولى غالب وحريث بن اعين 10
وعبد الله بن طرخان وكتب 11
فى صفر سنة ثمان وثلثين ومية 12
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is what Ghālib b. Nāfiʿ emancipated. He emancipated Zeran,
3 the umm walad of Saʿīd, his client, and her children, Umm ʿAbd
4 Allāh bt. Saʿīd, ʿUmar b. Saʿīd,
5 Muslim b. Saʿīd and Naṣr [b.] Saʿīd.
6 He emancipated them for the sake of God. Nobody has
7 any right over them except the right of patronage. It has been witnessed
8 by Ṭalḥa b. Khulayd, ʿUmayr b. Salīm, Yaḥyā b.
9 ʿĀriḍ, al-Ḥakam b. al-Ṭall, Yaḥyā b. Ṭalḥa,
10 Sām, the freedman of Ghālib, Ḥarīth b. Aʿyan
11 and ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭarkhān. It has been written
12 in Ṣafar of the year one hundred and thirty-eight.
Seals
Seal 1
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Inscription

The bulla contains seven impressions. One of these contains a textual impression with the name "ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭarkhān" inscribed. The remainder are of blank seals and thumbnail marks.

عب]د اللّه [بن ط]رخان]

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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 36 [AR 5]: Folio (recto)
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