Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 11 [AR 14]
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Details

DOC 11 [AR 14]
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
fold lines
Written on light-colored parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
26.5
17.5

Content

Emancipation of a slave.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: May-June 777 (Estimated date range: 0777-05-13-0777-06-11)
  • The Hijri calendar: Shaʿbān 160 (0160-08)

People

  • al-Ḥārith b. Malik
  • Nufāḥ
  • al-ʿAbbās
  • Ḥātim
  • Sindiyya
  • Bishr b. Abū al-Ḥarqāʾ
  • Žulād Jūzjān b. al-Jūzjān
  • Dāʾūd b. Khuwaylid al-ʾAzdī
  • ʿAmr b. ʿAbbās al-Ḥanzṭalī
  • Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Azdī
  • ʿĪsā b. Sālim al-Ḥanzṭalī
  • Harun b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Bāhilī
  • Zakariyāʾ b. ʿAbbās
  • Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh al-Bāhilī
  • Muslim b. Abū al-Ḥarqā'
  • Khālid

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: 155-157)
    Catalogue Number: 30
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

56
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 ما اعتق الحرث بن ملك 2
اعتق خادما له تسمى نوفاح وثلثة اولادتها منهم 3
العباس وحاتم وابنت تسما سندية اعتقهم 4
لوجه الله ليس لاحد عليــــــــــــــــــــــهم 5
سبيل الا سبيل الولا وللحرث 6
بن ملك وعقبه من بعده ولاهم 7
شهد بشر بن ابى الحرقا وزلاد جوزجان بن الجوزجان 8
وداود بن خويلد الازدى وعمرو بن عباس الحنظلى 9
ومحمد بن يزيد الازدى وعيسى بن سالم الحنظلى وهرون 10
بن عبد الملك الباهلى وزكريا بن عباس 11
وابرهيم بن عبد الله الباهلى ومسلم بن ابى 12
الحرقا وخلد مولى غالب 13
وكتــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــب فى 14
شعبان سنة ستين ومــــــــــــــــــــــاية 15
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is what al-Ḥārith b. Malik has emancipated.
3 He has emancipated a slave belonging to him called Nufāḥ and three of her children, these being
4 al-ʿAbbās, Ḥātim and a girl Sindiyya. He has emancipated them
5 for the sake of God. Nobody has
6 any right over them except the right of patronage. To al-Ḥārith
7 b. Malik and his descendants ofter him belongs their patronage.
8 It has been witnessed by Bishr b. Abū al-Ḥarqāʾ, Žulād Jūzjān b. al-Jūzjān,
9 Dāʾūd b. Khuwaylid al-Azdī, ʿAmr b. ʿAbbās al-Ḥanzṭalī,
10 Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Azdī, ʿĪsā b. Sālim al-Ḥanzṭalī, Hārūn
11 b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Bāhilī, Zakariyāʾ b. ʿAbbās,
12 Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh al-Bāhilī, Muslim b. Abū
13 al-Ḥarqāʾ and Khālid the client of Ghālib.
14 It has been written in
15 Shaʿbān of the year one hundred and sixty.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Inscribed

Red coloured Bulla with a number of blank impressions, thumbnail marks, a seal depicting a quadruped walking left, and seals with the following inscriptions:
"al-Ḥārith b. Malik"
"May God be praised. May God be praised."
"Muḥammad [with a six-pointed star above]"

الحرث بن ملك

اللّه يحمد اللّه يحمد

محمد

  • red
  • animals
  • inscriptions
Seal 2
Photograph of this seal
close-up of signature

al-Hārith b. Malik

الحرث بن ملك

Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 11 [AR 14]: Folio (recto)
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