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Rh this is what ʾOmar has purchased from Such-an-one—The injustice which she has suffered from the time he began to reign over the Khalifate, to such and such a day, for five-and-twenty dinârs out of what she may claim from him on his appearance at the Resurrection before God Almighty—and ʾOmar is exempted from it. Witnesses to this—ʾAly, and the son of Masʾûd."

Then ʾOmar gave the writing to his son, and said, "When I am dead, lay this in my winding-sheet, that I may appear with it when I rise in the presence of my Lord.