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Witness statement given on 25 April 1028. Mubārak b. Hiba, a beadle of the Babylonian community in Fustat, declares that he had caught a man on the last day of Passover and confined him in his house. Yaʿaqov Levi b. Yosef testifies that he saw the imprisoned man escape through a window of the beadle’s house. (Information from Goitein notes linked below.) Another court record from the same date is found in Bodl. MS heb. c 13/21 recto.
Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6C.2.2%20Bodleian%20%28b3-c27%29/Bodl.%20MS%20Heb.%20c%2013_22%20%28PGPID%205600%29.pdf.
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11th-century copy of a letter by Saʿadya Gaon to the Jews of Fustat, fragmentarily preserved. Saʿadya stresses the importance of the Oral Law, mentions the names of his supporters in Baghdad and urges the Jews of Fustat to maintain close links with him and his Academy, viz., Sura. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 27; the classmark in Gil is incorrect.)
Ed. Moshe Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael (in Hebrew) (1997), vol. 2.