T-S 10J9.2
Letter from Salmān b. Hārūn, al-Faḍl and Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Early 1054 (Gil). Salmān b. Hārūn, who had married into the al-Qābisī family, asks Nahray to collect debts for him from various people in Fustat, and to help his sister's son, Yosef b. Peraḥ al-Qābisī, to buy goods with said money. If there isn't enough money, Salmān instructs, then he should sell a quantity of soap deposited with in Fustat with a wakīl. Al-Faḍl then asks Nahray to run other errands related to clearing up a conflict with a certain Abū al-Surūr, which precipitated the severance of his relationship with Yosef b. ʿEli ha-Kohen al-Fāsī. The third writer, Avraham b. Farrāḥ, adds to the letter permission from the tax authorities to import raisins (from Syria?) and the khums related to them. The letter also mentions the Muslim shipowner Abū ʿAbdallāh b. al-Baʿbāʿ, here called Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. On the dating: in Gil's introduction to his edition he claims that the letter dates to some months after Bodl. MS Heb. d 66/ 81, since it contains similar information; however, in that same introduction, Gil dates this letter to early 1054, but in his introduction to Bodl. MS Heb. d 66/ 81, he dates it to October 1056; and to make matters even more confusing, in Kingdom, secs. 315–316, he says this letter dates to ca. 1057. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #771)
Editor: Ed. Moshe Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael (in Hebrew) (1997), vol. 4; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5C.1.1%20NN_%20Michael_%20pt.1/T-S%2010J9.2_1%20%28PGPID%205830%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5C.1.2%20Nahray%20101_%20pt.1/T-S%2010J9.2_2%20%28PGPID%205830%29.pdf.