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start of Ramadan or the beginning of the hajj pilgrimage season at the end of the year. One
lawsuit of this sort was brought by a member of the Hebronite Hammouri family against a
member of the Jerusalem Daoudi family in July 1892, at the beginning of the Muslim month
of Dhu al-Hijja. Sayyid Hammouri claimed he had sold to the Jerusalemite a silver watch one
month earlier, and that the two had agreed that Sayyid Daoudi would pay the price of the
watch, fifty kurus, after one month, on the 7" of Dhu al-Hijja. The sayyid Daoudi did not
deny the sale of the watch; he denied that the day of the court case was the 7” of the
month, the agreed-upon day for payment of the debt. Witnesses were brought in to testify
what day it was, by means of recalling their sighting of the new moon the previous week,
|.“ The judge ruled that Daoudi’s debt had been proven, and
which they did in great detai
that the new moon had been observed. The recorded outcome of the case was that Sayyid
Daoudi was ordered to pay fifty kurus to sayyid Hammouri. The effective outcome of the
case was to document the sighting of the moon and the beginning of the hajj pilgrimage
season.”
340 4 ast Saturday evening, after the sunset on Friday, after the sunset call to prayer, four minutes after
we left the mosque after sunset prayers we saw the new moon of Dh al-Hijje [...] rising from the west
toward the north, at half an arm’s length [above the horizon], and we were in an elevated place [at the
time]...”
*" HR 14 / 148 / 476 (7 Dhu al-Hijja 1309 / 3 July 1892) See also HR 14 / 130 / 409 (29 Ramadan 1309 / 27
April 1892). This case follows the same pattern, except the dispute is over fifty kurus paid for an abaya
(a men’s gown). The date was again confirmed by witnesses who testified to their citing of the new
moon, which also signified the end of Ramadan and the beginning of ‘Eid al-Fitr.
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