National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.214, recto
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Probably an excerpt from a treatise of legal questions sent to a certain faqīh called Muḥammad b. ʿAlī. This particular folio concerns a case of ownership and use of a garden. The text is partly illegible due to the paper’s poor state of preservation, and our readings are tentative.

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Ms.Heb.8333.214, recto
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Istiftā

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paper
One sheet vertically severed into two halves at the middle (indicated by {}), stitched together with string, possibly reused as a paste-down in a medieval bound volume, then removed and perhaps folded; complete, black ink, verso is reused
6
horizontal
ca. 6 horizontal fold lines.

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1186
30/01/2025
15/06/2026

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Ofir Haim
Nabi Saqee
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Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم ما قول الفقیه رضی الله {} عنه مردی از مردی بستان خرید پس بشد کس دیگر 1
افروخت این که بخرید بشد کس دیگر افروخت {-/+1} سه دست بگشت این [-/+ 1] سپس که (؟) بخرید [+/- 1] 2
[ر]فت (؟) به بایع خویش رد(؟) کرد همه جمله رد کردند [+/- 2] {-/+1} قال محمد بن علی [-/+ 1] پیدا (؟) کنم تا اندر بابی این قول 3
مقاتل سوگند خورذ [که] دست فراز نکردستم مردمی (؟) فاز (؟) {-/+1} نبودست (؟) اید اگر بپارسی سوگند خوردی (؟) فراز نشذستم (؟) 4
[-/+ 1] فر همه (؟) درست اید اگر همه (؟) سوگند خورد که (؟) من {-/+1} نبوذستم رد (؟) [+/- 5] 5
عذاب ندارذ ما باو فراز ار(؟) [-/+ 1] بـ{-/+1}شد سه ماه بستان برذه‌ای (؟) فاز ستانند به خوذ 6
در مسلماني این باشذ جوانمرد[ی] {} صذ هزار سلام خواجه علی ایده الله (؟) از من سلام 7
گوي بوي    8
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. What is the judgement of the faqīh, may God be pleased {} with him. A man bought a garden from [another] man. Then
2 he sold it to someone else. The one who bought it [last,] sold it to [yet] another person. {This garden} changed hands three times. This [man?] who then bought it [+/- 1]
3 went to the seller [+/-2] everyone refused. [+/- 2] {-/+1} The judgement of Muḥammad b. ʿAlī [+/- 1] was: Let me refer to
4 this statement by Muqātil on this subject (?): “He swore, ‘I did not raise my hand. [+/- 5 {}] When one swears an oath in Persian one doesn’t need to stand up for it. (?)
5 [+/-2] It is correct that everyone swears an oath that, “It was not me.” [+/- 6 {}]
6 He does not have a case. [Tell him: ?] “You have held the garden for three months. You shall return it.
7 This is chivalry in Islam.” {} One hundred thousand greetings to Khwāja ʿAlī, may God help him. Send my regards
8 to him.
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