In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Islamic State Caliphate on the Prophetic Methodology Wilayat Halab
No.
Date: / / 1435 AH
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
[The following in handwriting]:
From the Diwan al-Zakat to the brothers in the Shari’i institute:
We ask you to subject the one-called [blank] to a Shari’i course to teach him the matters of his religion and Tawhid, and to give him a paper certificate after he completes the course, so we can disburse for him the zakat sum.
Islamic State Wilayat Halab Zakat and Sadaqat Centre
al-Ra’i Office
Warning
The Zakat and Sadaqat Office in al-Ra’i warns the one called Muhammad al-Ahmad Isma’il that he must see the Zakat and Sadaqat Office within two days from date 2 Jumada al-Thani 1437 AH. Otherwise, his case will be referred to the Islamic court in order to take the necessary proceedings against him.
[In handwriting]: please see [the office] with olive receipt
And the one who has warned has been excused.
Official for the Zakat and Sadaqat Office
Islamic State Diwan al-Zakat wa al-Sadaqat Wilayat Halab/al-Ra’i Office/The amir
Islamic State Wilayat Halab Centre for Zakat and Sadaqat
Receipt for deferring payment of zakat
Office: al-Ra’i No. 1365
The brother Jamal Darwish bin Ahmad Residence: al-Quz Occupation: Farmer Workplace: al-Quz Is not obliged to pay zakat on his olives, because the olives…
. Have not reached the nisab value [this is ticked] . The lunar year has not passed upon them [this is left blank]
The entire value is 124 kg
Date of review: / / 143… AH
Date of writing of the receipt: 4 Safr 1437 AH
Note: the receipt is considered invalid by the time of the date of the review
Stamp of the office official
Islamic State Diwan al-Zakat wa al-Sadaqat Wilayat Halab/al-Ra’i office/The amir
Date: 30 Muharram 1438 AH [31 October 2016 CE] In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
To: our dear brother and shaykh the wali of Aleppo, Abu Ayat al-Joufi
May God protect and guard him
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
As for what follows:
We inform you, our dear shaykh:
There is an Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Tunisi, who is disabled and is affiliated with the office of the wounded. With him is an Abu Ghayth al-Tunisi who is affiliated with the Dabiq Division and is a companion for the disabled Abu Abd al-Rahman and Abu Hurayra al-Tunisi. They have departed to Wilayat al-Raqqa and when they were loading household items, the brother Abu Hassan al-Babi asked them: Why are you taking these household items? They told him: The wali allowed us to take these items, and this person [who owned them] is an apostate. He said to them: Why is he an apostate? They said: Because he has in his house photos of himself with officers.
(And God knows best: these photos are from the days of the house owner’s military service).
Our shaykh, we ask you to inform the brothers in Wilayat al-Raqqa to follow up with them.
—————— There is a person called Abu A’isha al-Tunisi. He came to al-Hasawi gas station to fill up on gasoline. So he asked the worker at the station to fill up his car with 40 litres of gasoline and without a receipt or money. Abu A’isha intended to force the worker to do this, so the worker shut the gas station. Then Abu A’isha hit the worker, loaded him into the car, and took him to the al-Sawami’ area. There also Abu A’isha hit him and said to him: You are a disbeliever. So the worker asked him: Why are you hitting me? Is it for the sake of gasoline? He said to the worker: No, because you are a disbeliever, and were I the Dawla, I would fire 100 bullets into your head. The worker made a complaint against him. Days later, Abu Sayf al-Hadidi came and said to the worker: You have committed kufr [disbelief], and God willing we sill sort out matters for you and we will see Abu A’isha for you. Perhaps these matters will require punishment, because you have committed kufr. But it should be noted that the worker did not commit kufr. Abu Sayf asked him to withdraw the complaint, and so the worker did that out of fear, and there is an audio recording of the worker.
—————– As you know, our shaykh, there is work on the Internet on a daily basis, whereby we shut the accounts of the takfiris and Khawarij.
————— Our dear shaykh, we inform you that we have installed the eavesdropping device in the al-Bushi mosque, but the device performs weekly, and we have not found one better than it in the marker. So we need a high quality eavesdropping device.
—————- We inform you, our dear shaykh, that the amnis in the Muslima sector arrested a smuggler who had a van with him. They sold the vehicle for a sum of money (though we don’t know how much), and they gave its owner half of the sum, and the truth of these words is 80%. And God knows best.
Do you want us to follow up on the matter?
—————— We also inform you, our dear shaykh, that it has become clear to us that in every wilaya in the Islamic State, there are contingents of Turkistanis, and each contingent has an amir in every meaning of the word. This amir is not appointed by the Islamic State. Who is the one who appointed that person as amir??? It is not known, AND god knows best, our dear shaykh, who are these groups. We have not encountered any problem [from them] but they stir up astonishment and worry.
And may God reward you best.
NB: Part of a set of letters to the wali of Aleppo (cf. here, here and here) in Muharram 1438 AH [October 2016 CE]
Islamic State Wilayat al-Raqqa Oil and Gas Commission
No. [redacted] Date: [redacted] Jumada al-Awla 1438 AH corresponding to [redacted] March 2017 CE
To be referred to the one who made the request
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
To the brothers in the wali’s office…may God protect and guard you
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu. As for what follows:
In response to your letter regarding the grievance of the employee [redacted]
We inform you that he had an allegiance to the Islamic State and in accordance with the circular previously issued, no brother who previously had an allegiance can be employed.
May God reward you best.
Stamp and Signature
Islamic State Oil and Gas Commission Amir of the Centre
Abu [redacted] al-Jazrawi
cc.
1. Wali’s office 2. Archive
NB: Some clarification is needed here. The Islamic State distinguished between formal members of the organisation (i.e. those who ‘gave allegiance’/mubaya’un and had registered ID numbers) and those who were not formal members but were given jobs by the group as ’employees’ (muwazzafun) and received salaries/payments but did not give allegiance. What this letter therefore means is that if someone joined the Islamic State as a formal member and then ‘left’ for some reason, then that would mean that this person could not subsequently become an ’employee’ for the group. By ‘leaving’ the organisation, I mean here either the one who seems to resign (though so far this only seems to apply to local Iraqis/Syrians, and the mechanisms are not yet precisely understood) or the one who is formally expelled(a phenomenon well attested and discussed in other documents).
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
To: our dear brother and shaykh, the wali of Aleppo, Abu Ayat al-Joufi (may God protect and guard him)
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
As for what follows:
Our dear brother: the brothers in the military police (may God protect them) have a report about the contingent of Abu Muqatil al-Albani. We need this report. We ask you to send them a letter so we can get the report.
May God reward you best.
NB: Part of the same set of documents as here and here
To our dear brother and shaykh, the wali of Aleppo, Abu Ayat al-Joufi, may God protect and guard him.
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu. As for what follows:
Our shaykh, we send you the following names, and we want you to:
– Ask the amnis: whom do they have detained? Who has fled? Who has had the hadd punishment established against him? Who has been released?
– Ask the real-estate department about the place of their residence.
– Ask the military police to provide a detailed report about them.
– Ask the court if they have cases against them.
– Ask the administrative and military personnel administration for all details about them/
Abu Osama al-Dar’uzi al-Ashqar Abu Osama al-Gharib Abu al-Athir al-Tunisi Abu al-Bara’ al-Tunisi Abu al-Harith al-Tunisi Abu al-Darda’ al-Tunisi Abu al-Zubayr al-Tunisi Abu al-Layth al-Tunisi Abu al-Meqdad al-Tunisi Abu Anas al-Tunisi Abu Takbir al-Tunisi Abu Tawba al-Masri Abu Safina al-Tunisi
Abu Salah al-Tunisi Abu Ubada al-Tunisi Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Tunisi Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Kuwaiti Abu Abdullah al-Habashi Abu Obayda al-Tunisi Abu Qudama al-Tunisi Abu Muhjin al-Masri Abu Muslim al-Tunisi Abu Mu’adh al-Jaza’iri al-Asimi Abu Mu’adh al-Tunisi Abu Mansur al-Tunisi Abu al-Abd al-Tunisi
Abu Rawaha al-Tunisi Abu Zakariya al-Tunisi Abu Safwan al-Tunisi Abu Musa al-Tunisi Abu Harun al-Husayni al-Ansari Abu Ishaq al-Tunisi Abu Mujahid al-Tunisi Abu Jahabdha al-Tunisi Abu Hadid al-Ansari Abu Khadija al-Tunisi Abu Ruqayya al-Tunisi Abu Rabab al-Tunisi
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
From: Abu Ali al-Muhajir To: our dear brother and shaykh, the wali of Aleppo, Abu Ayat al-Joufi (may God protect and guard him) As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu. As for what follows:
Our dear shaykh, we ask you to address and ask the military brothers in the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq battalion if they have a brother called Abu Harun al-Husayni, who is an ansari, and to askt hem what work does he do in the battalion. The reason we ask, our dear shaykh, is that this person does intelligence work for the interest of Abu Anas al-Tunisi, who was the amir of the brigade and has now been on sick leave for around a month in al-Tabqa.
Also, our dear shaykh, ask them if they have a brother called Abu al-Abd al-Tunisi, who was in Liwa al-Sadiq and is now working in military connections- and God knows best. The reason we ask if that he was among those closest to Abu Mu’adh al-Tunisi, who has fled outside the land of the Caliphate.
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