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Islamic State
Wilayat al-Raqqa
al-Rikaz Centre
Central Station
Phone: 245253
No. 3994
Fuel receipt
26050
Name: Abu Khabab
Side: N/A
Substance: Mazout ( ) Gasoline ( ) [this one is ticked, with ‘regular’ added in handwriting]
Quantitiy: 47.36 litres x 550 [Syrian pounds]
Sum in writing: Twenty-six thousand and fifty none other.
Date: 29 Rabi’ al-Thani 1437 AH
Name and signature of worker:
Abu Rayan.
Islamic State
Wilayat al-Baraka
Wilaya/Diwan:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Number:
Date: / /143 [Hijri date]
Corresponding to / /20 [Gregorian date]
Transfer form:
. Request
. Order
. Internal
. External [this box is ticked]
First: data on the brother to be transferred
Name/Kunya: Abd al-Mu’min al-Uzbeki
Work entrusted with: Administration
Sector/area: Zakat/al-Shaddadi
Wilaya: al-Baraka
Card number:
Date of joining the Dawla [Islamic State]: November 2014
Time of work in the wilaya/sector currently: November 2014
Muhajir/Ansari: Muhajir
Single/married: Married
Place to which there is the desire to be transferred: Wilayat al-Khayr
Reason for transfer: I have a married daughter in Wilayat al-Khayr and I am here alone and elderly.
Signature:
Second: Opinion of the direct amir
Agree [this is ticked]
I do not agree for the following reasons:
Position: guard of [illegible]
Name: Abd al-Mu’min al-Uzbeki
Date: 21 Rabi’ al-Awal 1437 AH
Signature:
[Stamp]:
Islamic State
Diwan al-Zakat wa al-Sadaqat
Wilayat al-Baraka Centre/The amir
Third: Opinion of the side to which there is the desire to be transferred
Agree
I do not agree for the following reasons:
Position:
Name:
Date:
Signature:
[NB: this part is blank]
Fourth: Opinion of the side from which he is to be transferred
Agree
I do not agree for the following reasons:
Position:
Name:
Date:
Signature:
[NB: this part is blank]
Islamic State
Delegated Committee
Number: 921
Date: 26 Dhu al-Q’ida 1437 AH/30 August 2016 CE
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
To: The Diwan al-Jund
Subject: Disbursement of Pay
Praise be to God and prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of God and his family with salutations…..As for what follows:
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
I ask God the Blessed and Almighty to protect you with His protection, and guide you with His guidance, and make right your judgement, and make firm your steps, and grant you victory over your enemy, and grant you success for what He loves and is pleased with. Indeed He is excellent as Lord and excellent as Helper.
The Almighty has said: ‘So fight in the path of God. Only bear what you yourself can deal with, and rouse the believers. Perhaps God will ward off the might of those who have disbelieved. And God is mightier in might and mightier in inflicting damage’- (Surat al-Nisa’ 84).
As it is from the aspect of incitement to fight the enemies of God and the apostates and inflicting havoc on them and inciting the brothers to fight them, the Amir al-Mu’mineen Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi (may God protect him) has ordered to give payments in golden dinars to all who inflict havoc in destroying the arms and equipment of the enemies of God Almighty, and that is according to the following arrangement:
. Aircraft (fighter jets/helicopters/drones): giving a car whose value is no less than 10 golden dinars of 21 carats to the detachment or person and that is according to the directives of the amir.
. Tanks: payment is to be given according to the manner in which they have been destroyed as follows:
Giving 7 golden dinars for everyone who blows up a tank with any weapons even if it is by land mines controlled by wire or control devices from a distance except land mines that not controlled from a distance. The exception also is blowing up with guided missiles, for which only 1 golden dinar is to be given.
. Armoured cars in their various types and armoured vehicles: giving 4 golden dinars except for what is blown up with a land mine.
. General vehicles: giving 2 dinars except what is blown up with an uncontrolled land mine.
. Sniper: giving of every apostate or disbeliever: giving 1 dinar if it is photographed and half a dinar if there is a witness with it.
. Support: every projectile that achieves direct hits, there is to given 1 silver dirham to the detachment on the basis that there is a witness or photography. This in in the event of not knowing the type of losses of the enemy. As for in the event of knowing the losses of the enemy, it is to be given for the biggest target and not for every target, provided the news should be on the same day.
. Using chemical weapons with projectiles and rockets: for every projectile that hits the target: 10 silver dirhams are to be given to the detachment.
. Killing an apostate or disbelieving soldier: 10 silver dirhams are to be give whatever the means of killing, except sniper.
. Capturing an apostate or disbelieving soldier: 1 golden dinar is to be given.
[Stamp on top of page]:
Islamic State
Delegated Committee
[Stamp on bottom of page]:
Islamic State
Diwan al-Jund
General Administration/The Amir
[In handwriting]:
To be circulated to all sectors and all the divisions are to be informed of circulating to the brigades, battalions and detachments.
Mechanism of giving the payment from the Bayt al-Mal:
. The fighting brother or unit must submit a request to the direct amir or administrative official, with the target that has been achieved in the battle or the expedition, while offering the evidence to prove it from witnesses or photography.
. The direct amir must be sure of the truthfulness of the request and the witnesses and certify it, and he is to give a certified copy to the person making the request, while referring a detailed report to the general administrative official in the battalion/brigade/division, on the basis that the requests should be brought together every 10 days and submitted to the Bayt al-Mal so that they can be disbursed to the fighters. And if the lack of truthfulness of the request is established, the matter is to be referred to the military judiciary.
. And the Bayt al-Mal is authorised by any other means [to transfer the disbursements] provided it should be quicker than this means.
. For the amirs (amir of the division and below): for each amir there is to be a deduction of 1% of the payment granted to the fighters who are under his amirship. An example of that:
. The support unit has launched 10 projectiles, 5 of which hit the target. So it is to be given 5 silver dirhams from which there is to be the following deductions:
. 1% for the amir of the detachment.
. 1% for the amir of the general support.
. 1% for the amir of the division.
. So 97% goes to the detachment.
A brother has blown up a Hummer vehicle with a land time through connection with a wire or control device at a distance:
. 1% for the amir of the detachment.
. 1% for the amir of the squadron.
. 1% for the amir of the platoon.
. 1% for the amir of the battalion.
. 1% for the amir of the brigade.
. 1% for the amir of the division.
. So 94% goes to the fighting brother.
If these brothers are his amirs.
. If the brother is killed after submitting the request and referring it to the Bayt al-Mal, the payment is to be disbursed to his family. As for if he is killed during the battle, his reward falls upon God.
And may God reward you best.
Notes:
1. This system of payment is to be effective from date 1 Dhu al-Hijja 1437 AH and for a period of 3 months.
2. It must be circulated to all the soldiers in the battalions, brigades and divisions.
Islamic State
Delegated Committee.
[Comment: In this document we get an idea of the Islamic State’s conventional military structures. From smallest to largest, these are: detachment (mafraza), platoon (faseel), squadron (sarya), battalion (katiba), brigade (liwa) and division (farqa). In addition, this document confirms that Islamic State approved use of chemical weapons against its adversaries].
[Document on right]
Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham
Administration of the Muhajireen in Wilayat al-Khayr
Assignment
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Praise be to God the Lord of the Worlds and prayers and peace be upon the most noble of the creation of God entirely.
According to the aforementioned statement from the Amir al-Mu’mineen, the Ansari brother Hussein Muhammad al-Ali is assigned with travelling to Turkey and from there the amni brother present in Turkey is tasked with sending him and defining the destination of his travel to Germany in order to work on the basis of the statement of the Amir al-Mu’mineen (may God protect him)..
18 Safr 1437 AH
Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.
[Document on left]
Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham
Administration of the Muhajireen in Wilayat al-Khayr
Assignment
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Praise be to God the Lord of the Worlds and prayers and peace be upon the most noble of the creation of God entirely.
According to the aforementioned statement from the Amir al-Mu’mineen, the Ansari brother Ali Hamoud al-Eisa is assigned with travelling to Turkey and from there the amni brother present in Turkey is tasked with sending him and defining the destination of his travel to Germany in order to work on the basis of the statement of the Amir al-Mu’mineen (may God protect him)..
21 Safr 1437 AH
Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.
[Comment: these documents first appeared on the pro-PYD site Hawar News Agency. The documents purportedly date from 30 November 2015 CE and 3 December 2015 CE but are clear forgeries. They use the old name of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham and an old stamp even though these documents date well after the cancellation of that name in June 2014 CE. There is also no other attestation of a body called ‘Administration of the Muhajireen’ within Islamic State administration].
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham
Indeed your trustee is God and His Messenger and those who have believed and those who establish prayer and give zakat and they are those who are humble in doing so.
To the brother
[redacted], it has been obligatory for you to pay zakat for a sum whose extent is [redacted] dollars to the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham. And if you do not pay the required sum, you will be a target for the Islamic State.
Beware of public exposure.
Islamic State
Wilayat al-Baraka
Military administration
[NB: there is also a faded stamp at the top of the document that is not legible]
[Comment: this document appeared to accompany an article on Jisr Press in November 2020 about alleged Islamic State extortion activities in Deir az-Zor countryside. However, there are multiple features of the document that make me sure that it is a forgery. First, the document uses the old name of the group (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham) that was cancelled in 2014. Second, the document uses an old provincial stamp (Wilayat al-Baraka) when in fact Islamic State currently designates all Syrian territories under the name of Wilayat al-Sham. It also makes little sense that a document demanding zakat should bear the stamp of a ‘military administration’ rather than a zakat department stamp or heading. It may be that someone found an old Islamic State stamp and used it to issue a threat to a local under the name of Islamic State].
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Islamic State
Number: 01199
Wilayat al-Sham
al-Khayr
Diwan al-Amn al-Aam
[list of names, which I have redacted from document]
Peace be upon the one who follows the guidance. As for what follows: ‘And whoso of you stands with them is one of them.’ And therefore, these names have fallen into apostasy from loyalty to the Nusayris and the Kurdish councils and joining the ranks of the atheists. And therefore we say to you: repent before power is gained over you. Otherwise: we will kidnap you on the roads and in the markets and in the mosques even. And we will enter upon you in the homes and we will certainly destroy them over your heads and know that we see you even as you do not see us. So announce repentance from all apostasy in the mosques and before the people. So the one who repents, he makes his blood sacrosanct. And his news will come to us and we make sure from his state of affairs whether he is to be believer or if he is of the liars. And whoso does not repent, he has made his blood permissible to be shed and he only has the sword in our view. And the one who has warned has been excused, and God is predominant over His affair but most of the people do not know.
And these names are particular for the village of Jadid Akeidat (and to be continued).
Published on date 10 March 2021 CE
26 Rajab 1442 AH
Islamic State
Wilayat al-Khayr
Diwan al-Amn al-Aam
[Comment: this document, which appeared on the site Deir az-Zor 24, contains a number of suspicious features that make me sure it is a forgery. First, the typing format looks odd. Second, the document combines the new Islamic State ‘Wilayat al-Sham’ designation for the Syrian territories with an old stamp at the bottom featuring ‘Wilayat al-Khayr’ (Deir az-Zor province). Third, it is strange the document should list the wanted names first and then proceed to explain they are wanted for falling into apostasy. Fourth, the line ‘peace be upon the one who follows the guidance’ at the beginning of the explanation is very irregular. It would be more usual to begin ‘Praise be to God (etc.)…and prayers and peace be upon the (e.g. one sent with the sword as a mercy to the worlds) and (e.g. all his family and companions)].
The Islamic State Archives 