Private Collection: Shariati I
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Contract of land sale in a mountainous area of Balkh involving five sellers and one buyer at the price 470 dinars. The document is witnessed by 15 men.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 29 September 1150 (1150-09-29)
  • The Hijri calendar: 28 Jumāda I 545 (0545-05-28)

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Shariati I
Private Collection
Unknown
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Sale
Balkh

Physical Description

paper
Archival note on verso side, facsimile not available
20
horizontal

People

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. 23-

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IEDC Data

1301
13/10/2025
12/11/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Mateen Arghandehpour, Nabi Saqee
The transcription has been revised from a previous publication (see Publications), the translation is the original work of the IEDC Team (as yet unpublished in peer-review print)
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Folios
1. recto
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2. verso
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Folio:

Administrative

coinage

Legal terms

darak ḍamān (guarantee against defect)
iqrār (acknowledgment)
legal formula
bi khaṭṭihi, bi amrihi, bi yadihi
witness
ḥaqq (obligation)

Measurement Units

pāra (plot of land)

Officials titles and offices

dihqān
sālār

Topographical Features

mountain
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Transcription
Folio:
بسم ا[لله الرحمن الرحیم] 1
اقرار کردند ازیشان سالار محمد بن احمد بن محمد بن یو[سف؟] [+/- 3؟] 2
دهقان علی بن محمد و علی بن عبدالغفاربن بابک (؟) و عثمان بن احمد بن [+/- 3؟] [بن؟] 3
عبدالرزاق و عبدالرزاق بن عبدالغفار و دولت‌یارو الحسین بن علی [+/- 3؟] 4
کنندگان از خلج زاري از قبیله تمرکی (؟) هر یکی از ایشان بتر[که] [+/- 3؟] 5
بفروختند یک پاره زمین کوهي از کوه بلخ بموضع شامست راغ معروف ان را سرخ [بیغوله ؟ +/- 2 ؟] 6
و بند کرگس‌خانه چنانک جمله این زمین بچهار حد مشتمل گردد. حد اول پیوسته زمین امیر اجل سعدالد[ین] 7
و حد دوم گردنگاه کرگس‌خانه و طریق اورزاغان (؟) و زمین مشتري و سنگ (؟) پاره و سیم (؟) راه (؟) [+/- 3] 8
برود تا تیغ پایان سرخ بیغوله تیغاتیغ بر شود پشت هیل. و حد چهارم سر [+/- 3] 9
بحد اول. این زمین که حدود وی صفت کرده شد بفروختند بقیمت چهارصد هـ[ـفتاد دینار که نیمه بود] 10
دویست سی پنج دینار مر خواجه رئیس معتمدالملک عمربن محمد بن محمد بن [ار +/- 2] 11
نه به خیار نه به بیع تلجیه نه بلکه ببیع درست. و خرنده این زمین را بدید و بپسندید [زمین ؟] 12
بملکیت صاحب قبض گشت و فروشندگان ضمان درک پذیرفتند علی ما اوجبه الشرع [و انچ بدو مربوط ؟] 13
و منسوبست از قلیل و کثیر و مراعی و مرافق و مزارع جملگی حق این مشتری گشت و این ذ[کر فرمود؟] 14
نبشتن تا به وقت حاجت در دست دارنده حجت بود باشهاد کسانی که اسامیهای خود [+/- 1] 15
فی الثامن و العشرین من جمادی الاول سنه خمسین اربعین خمسمایه 16
17 این اقرار کنندگان برین جمله
اقرار کردند بمشهد ما بود
و کتب ابراهیم بن الحسن بن محمد بخطه		   اقروا بجمیعهم و کتبه
علی بن ابی بکر بن علی ابوالعلایج (؟)
18 برین جمله اقرار کردند 
و کتب محمد بن ابراهیم (؟) [+/- 2] بخطه (?)		  
19   اقر [بجمیع +/- 1]
و کتبه محمد (؟) [+/- 3]
20 اقر بجمیع بما فیه
و کتبه شمعون عمر(؟) بن محمد بخطه (؟)		 شهد بذلک و کتب (؟)
علی بن محمد (؟) امیرکی (؟) بخطه
21  
22   شهد بذلک و کتب
عمر بابه (؟)  بامره		  
23 شهد بذلک و کتب
محمد بن علی بن محمد بیده		 شهد بذلک و کتب محمد بن
علی بن ابوبکر بن ابراهیم
24  
25 اقروا بما فیه (؟) و کتب
یوسف بن ابراهیم (؟) بن یوسف بخطه (؟)		  
26     شهد بذلک و کتب
یوسف بن ابوبکر بن عبدالله (؟)
27 شهد بذلک
و کتبه چوپان محمد بن محمد چوپان بامره		 برین جمله اقرار کردند
کتبه ابوبکر بن یوسف بن علی بخطه
28     برین جمله اقرار کردند
و کتبه حبشی (؟) بن محمد بن ابوالقاسم (؟) بخطه
وصل [صحیح] 1
[+/- ؟] و کتبه 2
[+/- ؟] بن علی 3
[+/- ؟] 4
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of [God, the Merciful, the Compassionate]
2 They – the chief Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yū[suf] [+/- 3 ?],
3 the dihqān  ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. Bābak (?), ʿUthmān b. Aḥmad b. [+/- 3] [b. ?]
4 ʿAbd al-Razzāq, ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, Dawlatyār and al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī [+/- 3] – 
5 [who are] the acknowledgers (?) from the Khalaj of Zārī from the tribe of Tamrakī (?). They have acknowledged that they have each
6 sold their shares in one parcel of mountainous land from the mountain of Balkh in the place of Shāmast Rāgh known as ‘Surkh Bīghūla’ [+/- 2 ?] 
7 and the Kargaskhāna Range. The entire plot consists of four boundaries. The first boundary is adjacent to the land of honourable amīr Saʿd al-D[īn].
8 The second [boundary] constitutes Kargaskhāna Pass, the Ūrzāghān Road, the buyer’s land and the boulder. The third [boundary] is the road to [+/- 3]
9 and leads to the end of Surkh Bīghula peak, going up to the back of Hayl [mountain?]. The fourth boundary is the top of [+/- 3]
10 [circling back?] to the first boundary. They sold the land whose boundaries have been described, at the price of 470 (?) [dinars, half of which is]
11 235 dinars, to Khwāja raʾīs muʿtamid al-mulk ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. [+/- 2],
12 without the right to withdrawal (khiyār) or protection (taljiʿa) and as a proper sale. The buyer saw this land, he liked it, and accepted the 
13-14 transfer [to him]. The sellers accepted the guarantee of sale against defect (ḍamān u darak) in accordance with what is required in the sharīʿa. The buyer became the owner of all that pertains to [the land]--large and small, its pastures, its contents, and its farms–and ordered that this document be written
15 so that it may serve as proof in the hand of its owner, if needed, through the witnessing by the people whose names [are recorded at the end of this document].
16 It is dated the 28th of Jumāda in the year 545.
17 These acknowledgers have acknowledged that, “it was in our presence”   They acknowledged all of this. ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr b. ʿAlī b. Abū al-ʿAlāyij (?) wrote this
18 Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad wrote [this], in his hand They have acknowledged thus: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm and [+/- 2] wrote [this] in his 
hand (?)
19   He acknowledged [all of this]
Muḥammad b. [+/- 3] wrote this
20 He acknowledged all that is herein. Shamʿūn [b. ?] ʿUmar b. Muḥammad wrote this in his hand ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Amīrakī (?) 
witnessed this and wrote this (?) in his hand
21  
22   ʿUmar Bāba (?) witnessed this and wrote this, at his order  
23 Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad witnessed this and wrote this in his hand Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Abū Bakr b. Ibrāhīm witnessed this and wrote this
24  
25   Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm (?) b. Yūsuf witnessed all that is herein and wrote this in his hand (?)  
26   Yūsuf b. Abū Bakr 
b. ʿAbd Allāh (?) witnessed this and wrote it
27    
28 The shepherd Muḥammad b. Muḥammad the shepherd witnessed this at his order They acknowledged all of this. Abū Bakr b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī wrote this in his hand  
29     They acknowledged all of this. Ḥabashī (?) b. Muḥammad b. Abū al-Qāsim (?) wrote this in his hand
1 The join is valid
2 [+/- ?] it was written
3 [+/- ?] b. ʿAlī
4 [+/- ?]
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