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This is a declaration of sale of four plots of land in what seems like one village involving one seller and one buyer transacted in Gurzawānī currency. The document is signed by or on behalf of 12 witnesses.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 10 October 1203 (1203-10-10)
  • The Hijri calendar: 24 Muḥarram 600 (0600-01-24)

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Shariati II
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Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Sale

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paper
fold lines
22
horizontal
ca. 22 horizontal fold lines

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Publications

  • Emad al-Din Sheikh al-Hokamayi, “Du sanad az nāhīya-yi Balkh dar sadahāyi 6 wa 7 hijrī”, Guzārish-i mīrāth 31-32 ‘1388 (2009)’ pp. 25- 26

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IEDC Data

1300
29/09/2025
12/11/2025

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Arezou Azad
Mateen Arghandehpour, Nabi Saqee
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Folio:

Agriculture

fruit
peach grove

Legal terms

iqrār (acknowledgment)
legal formula
bi khaṭṭihi, bi amrihi, bi yadihi
legal formula
in a state of sound body and mind
legal formula
of their own volition and without coercion
witness
ḥaqq (obligation)

Measurement Units

tīr (share)

Topographical Features

canal
land
mill
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Transcription
Folio:
اقرار کرد خواجه هندو (؟) بن محمد بن احمد الریکان (؟) غونی فی حال [جواز ؟] 1
اقراره و نفاذ کل اموره طائعا راغبـــا غیر مکره و لا مجبر علیه  2
بر ان جمله کی یک پاره // [زمین] کی وی را بود اندر قریه‌ غون بموضع جوی اسیاه 3
چنانک بچهار حد مشتمل گردد. حد اول پیوسته به زمین غفّار بن محمد بن احمد 4
والثانی پیوسته بود هم بزمین غفّــــــار بن محمد بن احمد والثالث 5
پیوسته بود بجوی اسیــــــاه و الرابع پیوسته بود // علی بن عمر جمال 6
این یکپاره // کی حدود وی مسما کرده شد با کل حقوق ان  7
از تاک و نهال و اشجار عامر غامر داخل خارج ما یضاف و ینسب الیها 8
از جمله دو تیر یک تیر کی نصف کامل گردد و ایضا 9
یک قطع زمین کی بیدستان است وی را بود هم بموضع 10
جوی اسیـــاه بچهار حد. حد اول پیوسته بود بزمین غفار بن محمد مذکور 11
والثانی پیوسته بود بدین // محدود موصوف والثالث  12
بکراب اندره (؟) والرابع // علی بن عمر جمال این یک قطع زمین کی حدود 13
وی مسما  کرده شد با کل حقوق از اشجار مثمره و غیر مثمره عامر غامر 14
داخل خارج انچ بدو منسوب است و مضاف الیها و ایضا  15
یک قطع زمین شفتالوستان بموضع مرغزارک. حد اول 16
پیوسته شود بخانه محمد شحنه و الثانی پیوسته شود بـ// حسین بن علي‌شیر 17
والثالث پیوسته شود بمرغزارک والرابع حائط یوسف بن عمر یوسف 18
این یک قطع زمین با کل حقوق عامر غامر از اشجار مثمره و غیر مثمره  19
وایضا ده بن درخت بید بموضع زمین مسجد (؟). حد اول  زمین مسجد گوهر (؟) 20
والثانی والثالث هم زمین مسجد والرابع // مشتری. این یکپاره //  و یک قطع زمین  21
بیدستان و یک قطع زمین شفتالوستان و ده بن درخت [بید] 22
کی حدود هر یک مسما کرده شد بفروخت مر صدر رفیع ملک الوزرا 23
خداوند حسام الدولة والدین مستوفی الممالک [+/- 1] ابی المجد محمود بن ابی بکر بن محمد بن علی 24
القاضی را بدویست پنجاه دینار زر گرزوانی سره [+ 2] 25
النصف صد بیست پنج دینار ببیع صحیح جایز شرعی ثابت بتات 26
خالی عن کل شروط مفسده و معانی مبطله. نه هبه نه عوض  27
نه رهن نه تلجیه بلک ببیع جایز. و مشتری هذا [+/- 3] 28
را بدید و پسندید و در تحت تصرف خود اورد کسایر الاملاک. 29
و بایع هذا ثمن بتمام کمال از مشتری قبض کرد و درک ضمان قبول 30
کرد کی اگر مدعی برون اید بشرع جواب گوید و چون عاجز اید ثمن 31
بتمام کمال باز رساند. و این ذکر بفرمود بطوع رغبت نبشتن تا 32
دارنده را حجت بود. و ذلک بتاریخ الرابع والعشرین من شهر الحرام 33
34 اقر بما فیه طایعا کتبه
محمد بن ابوبکر فراشی (؟) بیده		   34. المحرم سنه سته ستمایه
35   اقر بجمیع ذلک کتبه
محمود بن علی بن محمد بیده (؟)
36 اقر بمافیه طایعا و کتب 
احمد بن ابوبکر بن احمد [+/- 1] بخطه (؟)		 اقرا البایع و المشتری
کتبه محمد بن محمد بن بو [+/- 2] 
37  
38     اقر بجمیع ما فیه کتبه
محمد بن محمد بن [+/- 1] بیده
39    
40 اقر بما فیه طایعا
و کتبه محمد بن ابوبکر زرانی (؟) بامره (؟)		    
41    
42     برین جمله اقرار کرد کتبه
عمر بن محمد بن ابی‌بکر بن محمد بن هبةالله (؟) بخطه
43 اقر عندی طایعا کتبه
ابی‌بکر بن الحسن [+/- 1][الله ؟] [+ 1]
فراشی (؟) بیده		  
44    
45 اقر بما فیـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــه کتبه
احمد بن ابی‌بکر بن محمد بن هبةالله بیده (؟)		  
46    
47     برین جملتست و کتبه
محمد بن یوسف بن علی صفیان (؟) بیده
48 شــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــهد بجمیع ما فیه
و کتبه احمد بن علی بن الحسین ظهرانی (؟) بیده (؟)		  
49 هم برین جمله است و کتبه
محمد بن اسحق ظهرانی (؟) بیده		  
50    
الوصل صحیح بخط الکاتب محمود بن علی بن محمد بیده 1
Translation
Folio:
1 Khwāja Hindū (?) b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Rīkān (?) Ghūnī, in a state of being legally capable of 
2 acknowledgement and with authority to effect [legal] actions, voluntarily, wilfully and without coercion or force
3 the following: one parcel of land that he owned in the village of Ghūn, located in Jūy-i Āsiyāh,
4 and consisting of four boundaries. The first boundary is adjacent to the land of Ghaffār b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad.
5 The second [boundary] is also adjacent to the land of Ghaffār b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad. The third [boundary]
6 is adjacent to the millstream. The fourth [boundary] is adjacent [to] the land of ʿAlī b. ʿUmar Jamāl. 
7 Out of this parcel of land–which has been delimited, with all its rights, 
8 including its vines, saplings, trees, arable and non-arable land, its interiors and exteriors, and anything else that this is added or related to it–
9 he sold one out of total of two shares (which constitutes half of the plot). He also sold 
10 one unit of land, that is a willow grove, which belonged to him, and which is also located 
11 in Jūy-i Āsiyāh, with the [the following] four boundaries: The first boundary is adjacent to the land of the mentioned Ghaffār b. Muḥammad.
12 The second [boundary] is adjacent to this land that was just explained and delimited. The third [boundary]
13 is Kurrāb-i Andara (?). The fourth [boundary] is the land of ʿAlī b. ʿUmar Jamāl. This one parcel  of land–which has been
14 delimited, with all its rights, including its fruit-bearing and non-bearing trees, arable and non-arable,
15 its interiors and exteriors, and what is related or added to it. [He] also [sold] 
16 one unit of land, which is a peach grove, located in Marghzārak. The first boundary
17 is adjacent to the house of Muḥammad, the shiḥna. The second [boundary] is adjacent to the land of Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī Shīr
18 The third [boundary] is adjacent to Marghzārak. The fourth [boundary] is the wall of Yūsuf b. ʿUmar b. Yūsuf. 
19 This one parcel of all, with all its rights and its arable and non-arable lands, including its fruit-bearing and non-bearing trees.
20 He also [sold] ten willow trees located at Zamīn-i Masjid. The first boundary is the land of the Gawhar Mosque.
21 The second and third [boundaries] are also Zamīn-i Masjid. The fourth [boundary] is the land of the buyer. He sold this one parcel of land, one unit of 
22 willow tree grove, one unit of peach tree grove, and ten [willow] trees–
23 each of which has been delimited–to the great chief, the head of viziers,
24 the lord, Ḥusām al-Dawla wa al-Dīn, the state financial controller [+/-1] Abī al-Majd Maḥmūd b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī,
25 the judge at [the price of] 250 dinars in pure Gurzuwānī coinage [+/-2],
26 half of which is 125 dinars. [He sold it] in a proper, valid sale, according to the sharīʿa, [constituting] the definitive severance [of ownership], 
27 devoid of [clauses] that would revoke it or content that would invalidate it. [This is] neither a gift nor an exchange;
28 neither a lease, nor a right of protection [sale]. [It is] entirely a valid sale. The buyer 
29 saw and approved of this [+/-3], and assumed ownership of it [adding it to] his properties.
30 The seller received the full price from the buyer, and accepted the guarantee against defects in the title,
31 according to which, should there be a claim then [the seller] should respond according to sharīʿa [law]. If he cannot then he must pay back the full price. 
32 He ordered that this document be written of his volition and desire so that it may serve
33 the holder [of the document] as proof. This is dated the 24th of the holy month of
34 Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr Farāshī (?) acknowledged what is herein willingly. He wrote it in his hand   34. Muḥarram in the year 606.
35   Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad acknowledged all this. He wrote this in his hand
36 Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad [+/- 1] acknowledged what is herein willingly. He wrote it in his hand The seller and the buyer acknowledged this Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Bū [ +/- 2] wrote it
37  
38     Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. [+/- 1] acknowledged all that is herein. He wrote it in his hand 
39    
40 Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr Zarānī (?) acknowledged what is herein willingly. It was written at his order    
41    
42     ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Hibbat Allāh (?) wrote it in his hand
43 Abī Bakr b. al-Ḥasan [+/- 1] Allāh (?) [+1] Farāshī (?) acknowledged what is herein in front of me, and wrote it in his hand  
44    
45 Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Hibbat Allāh acknowledged what is herein. He wrote it in his hand  
46    
47     It is all thus. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī Ṣufyān (?) wrote it in his hand
48 Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn Ẓahrānī (?) is a witness to all that is herein. He wrote it in his hand  
49 It is thus. Muḥammad b. Isḥaq Ẓahrānī (?) wrote it in his hand  
50    
1 The join is valid. [Written] in the hand of the scribe, Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, in his hand
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