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Document that tells the story of Aharon ha-Levi and Ḥalfon, who collected money on behalf of the Rambam (Maimonides) for ransom of captives. They sent the Rambam a list of names and amounts of money which people agreed to pay, from the Jewish community in al-Mahalla. One of the community members sold his female slave and gave nine dinars of the payment to the Rambam's messenger. On the other side Moses Maimonides declares that he received the money. Av-Elul 1170. (Goitein, Palestinian Jewry, 316-318) VMR

Letter from Barakāt b. Sason to ʿImrān b. Benaya, in al-Maḥalla (אלמחללא). In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual orthography (including ש for ס and ת for ד and interchange of ה and א). The letter deals with business matters, including a press (miʿṣara). Refers to people who are traveling to the Fayyūm and wish to travel onward to Qūṣ (קוס), an idea to which the sender objects. At one point he addresses a remark to Ḥārūn b. Isḥāq. AA. ASE.