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This article presents the edition of a legal document from c. 44/664-5, written in Arabic, that records a woman's debt of a third of a dinar. It is the oldest preserved original of its kind. A study of the formulary of this document and contemporary copies of similar documents reveals a hitherto overlooked validity clause which states that the recorded financial transactions are in accordance with 'the normative procedure of the believers' (sunnat qaḍā' al-mu'minīn). This clause gives documentary evidence for the existence of ideas about legal identity among the Muslim community in Egypt as early as the beginning of Umayyad rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]