An Inscription From Madinah Containing A Statement Of Belief, 100 AH / 718-719 CE
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Assalamu ʿalaykum wa rahamatullahi wa barakatuhu:
(a)
(b)
(c)
Figure (a) original inscription, (b) its transcription and
(c) its contents. [
] encloses letters supplied to fill a lacuna.
Date
100 AH / 718-719 CE.
Size
76 cm x 48 cm.
Script
Kufic script.
Contents
The translation of the inscription is:
- Abū Salmah bin ʿUbayd
- Allāh bin ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿUmar
- believed in God.
- And written in the year hundred.
Comments
This individual may be a descendant of ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿUmar bin al-Khaṭṭāb.
Location
Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah.
References
[1] Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Rāshid, Kitābāt Islāmiyyah Ghayr Manshurah Min "Ruwāwat" Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah Dirāsat Wa-Taḥqīq, 1993, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), pp. 98-100.
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