and trousers. As for “a thousand shirts and a pair of trousers,” it is like the first case; that is, he owes a thousand shirts in addition to the pair of trousers.

An acknowledgement may be explained as a dog whose benefit is permissible, or as the prescribed punishment for slander. If he says, “He has a thousand due from me,” the explanation of its type is referred back to him. If he explains it as one type or several types, his explanation is accepted. If he says, “He has due from me what is between one dirham and ten,” he owes eight. If he says, “What is between one dirham to ten,” or, “From one dirham to ten,” he owes nine, .....

His statement: “If he says, ‘He has due from me what is between one dirham and ten,’ he owes eight,” is because there are eight numbers between one and ten.

His statement: “If he says, ‘What is between one dirham to ten,’ or, ‘From one dirham to ten,’ he owes nine,” describes two cases: “what is between one dirham to ten” is one case, and “from one dirham to ten” is the other. In both, he owes nine. The second case is clear, because he mentioned both the beginning and the end of the limit. The beginning of the limit is included, but its end is not; thus, the dirham is included and ten is excluded, so he owes nine.

However, his statement, “What is between one dirham to ten,” is problematic. For if you say that the end of the limit is excluded, ten is excluded; and the expression “between” entails that both endpoints are excluded. Thus, if he says, “What is between one dirham to ten,” then according to the principle, he owes eight. This is one of the two opinions regarding this case: if he says, “What is between one dirham to ten,” he owes only eight, because the first “dirham” is excluded, and ten is excluded because “to” indicates an endpoint and what follows it is not included.

But those who maintain that he owes nine say that the endpoint is not included when the starting point is mentioned—that is, when “from” is used. But when the starting point is not mentioned, the endpoint is included. Accordingly, we say that in “what is between one dirham,” the dirham is excluded while ten is included, and so he owes nine. They cite as evidence