Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 12 [AR 11]
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Details

DOC 12 [AR 11]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Amicable Settlement
Madr

Physical Description

parchment
fold lines
Written on light coloured parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
18.0
15.0

Content

Peace-making contract between Maskan and Mīr b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: April-May 762 (Estimated date range: 0762-04-05-0762-05-04)
  • The Hijri calendar: Muḥarram 145 (0145-01)

People

  • Maskan
  • Mīr b. Bēk
  • Muḥammad b. Abū Shamkh
  • Naṣr b. al-Qāsim
  • Naṣr b. Sālim
  • Yūsuf b. al-Muhājir
  • Muḥammad (the client of Sṭayfī)
  • Ḥanān b. Ḥabīb
  • Abū Ḥafṣ
  • Abū Ḥammād
  • al-Hwrbk(?)
  • Khālid b. Slkyan(?)
  • Memoqiyān(?)

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: 141-3)
    Catalogue Number: 25
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

46
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 كتاب من مسكن لمير بن باك الباميانى انى خاصمتك 2
فى بعتك وكان السير وباعك من ثم طلب الى اراددك 3
عليه وانى رددتك على السير فليس لى عليك سبيل ولا دعو 4
ى قليل ولا كثير الا سبيل خير فما ادراكك من 5
سبل ابرهيم او غيره فعلى خلاصه بما عسر 6
وهان شهد محمد بن ابى شمخ ونصر بن القاسم 7
ونصر بن سلم ويوسف بن المهاجر ومحمد مولى 8
صيفى وحنان بن حبيب وابو حفص عامل مدر 9
وابو حماد والهوربك وخالد بن سلكيان 10
 ومموقيان وكتب لعشر بقين من المحرم 11
سنة خمس واربعين ومية وختم 12
مسكن والشهود ابرهيم بن سليم 13
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a document from Maskan to Mīr b. Bēk al-Bāmiyānī. I have contended with you (in law)
3 concerning the fact that I made a sale to you and the sēr had also made a sale to you. Subsequently he demanded that I return to you (the price)
4 to his debit. I have returned (the price) to you to the debit of the sēr and I have no suit or claim upon you
5 with regard to little or much except a suit of charity, and whatever liability overtakes you with
6 regard to Ibrāhīm or anybody else ⎯ it is incumbent upon me to clear it with what is weighty
7 and what is light (= whatever the amount involved). It has been witnessed by Muḥammad b. Abū Shamkh, Naṣr b. al-Qāsim,
8 Naṣr b. Sālim, Yūsuf b. al-Muhājir, Muḥammad the client
9 of Sṭayfī, Ḥanān b. Ḥabīb, Abū Ḥafṣ the financial administrator of Madr,
10 Abū Ḥammād, al-Hwrbk (??), Khālid b. Slkyan (??)
11 and Memoqiyān (??). It has been written with ten days remaining of al-Muḥarram
12 of the year one hundred and forty-five.
13 Maskan and the witnesses set their seal. Ibrāhīm b. Salīm.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Inscription

The bulla consists of 11 oval impressions, including a number of geometric shapes, thumbnails and a textual seal which contains the name "Naṣr b. al-Qāsim".

نصر بن ال[قاسم]

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  • brown
  • inscriptions
  • symbols
Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 12 [AR 11]: Folio (recto)
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