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Letter by Sherira Gaon and Hayye Gaon in the hand of a professional scribe. Originally written in ca. 1005. Sent to Fustat to an aluf, probably Avraham b. Sahlān. Mentions Shemarya b. Elḥanan and his son Elḥanan. Mentions “the son of the deceased ruler,” probably al-Ḥākim. Refers to distress and persecutions that the writers suffered, and hints at a controversy in Fustat. Expresses thanks for a delivery of parcels (probably containing halakhic queries and money) that had reached the yeshiva with the assistance of Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 96.)
Ed. A. Neubauer, "Elhanan, Son of Shemariah ben Elhanan," Jewish Quarterly Review 6, no. 1 (1893); also ed. Moshe Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael (in Hebrew) (1997), vol. 2; also ed. Jacob Mann, Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature (1931), vol. 1.
