An Inscription Mentioning Reliance On God, 83 AH / 702-703 CE
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Assalamu ʿalaykum wa rahamatullahi wa barakatuhu:
(a)
(b)
Figure (a) trace of original inscription, and (b) its transcription.
Date
83 AH / 702-703 CE.
Size
120 cm x 50 cm.
Script
Kufic script.
Contents
The translation of the inscription is given below.
- ʿAbdullah bin Abī ʿUrīḍ
- relies on his Lord.
- Written in the year
- three and eighty.
- And Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm
- wrote his statement with his hand.
Comments
This long inscription was perhaps one of the first to be executed on the rocky façade. The theme of reliance comes in many inscriptions from the 1st century AH.[1] Notice that lines 3 and 4 are part of lines 1 and 2 in the inscription. This inscription was found on the Ḥajj route from Syria.
Location
Abū ʿOūd, Saudi Arabia.
References
[1] H. B. A. H. Al-Kilabi, Al-Nuqūsh Al-Islāmīyah ʿala Ṭarīq al-Ḥajj al-Shāmī bi-Shamāl Gharb al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabīyah al-Saʿūdīyah, 2009, Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Waṭanīyah: Ar-Riyāḍ, 2009, pp. 68-70.
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