they would each have recovered one hundred from him, for they would have said to him: “We paid six hundred: two hundred on our own behalf, and four hundred on behalf of you and your three fellow purchasers—one hundred for each of you. So repay us the hundred we paid on your behalf, together with one-third of the three hundred we paid on behalf of your three fellow purchasers, since you share with us in guaranteeing their debt and must therefore bear one-third of it.” They would thus recover two hundred from him and divide it equally between them. This additional explanation of this case is omitted from the Mudawwana; it is not mentioned there, although it completes the account.
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This, then, is a detailed explanation of the cases mentioned in the Mudawwana concerning this question. If, however, the first had encountered the third only after the latter had recovered fifty from the fourth, as we have supposed, he would have been entitled to recover one hundred and twelve and a half from him. The explanation is that he would say to him: “I have borne three hundred, having recovered three hundred of the six hundred I paid. Of the remaining amount, one hundred is my own share of the original debt, for which I have no recourse against anyone. The other two hundred I paid under my guarantee: fifty on your behalf and one hundred and fifty on behalf of your fellow purchasers. So repay me the fifty I paid towards your share of the original debt, together with half the amount by which my payment under the guarantee exceeds yours, namely sixty-two and a half. For I paid one hundred and fifty under the guarantee, whereas you paid twenty-five, since you recovered fifty from the fourth out of the seventy-five you paid to the second under your guarantee. Deduct the twenty-five you paid from the one hundred and fifty I paid, leaving one hundred and twenty-five, and pay me half of that, namely sixty-two and a half.” Once he pays him that amount, the two will have borne equal amounts both under their guarantees and towards the original debt.
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If they both encounter the second man, from whom the first recovered three hundred and who in turn recovered from the third