An Inscription Asking For The Best In This World And The Hereafter, 92 AH / 710-711 CE
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Assalamu ʿalaykum wa rahamatullahi wa barakatuhu:
(a)
(b)
Figure (a) photograph of original inscription, and (b) its transcription.
Date
92 AH / 710-711 CE.
Accession Number
Not available.
Size
Not known.
Script
Kufic. This inscription was first brought to notice by Dr. ʿAbdullāh Maṣlaḥ al-Thumāly on Twitter.[1]
Contents
The translation of the inscription is given below:
- I,
- Al-Mughīra ibn
- ʿUmar, ask
- God for Paradise as a place,
- and Angels
- as ambassadors, and the Prophet
- as the Companion, and Believers
- as friends. Amen, Lord
- of the Worlds. And he wrote (this)
- in the year two and
- ninety.
Comments
Supplications for forgiveness and granting of Paradise in the early Islamic inscriptions are very common. This is a more elaborate one.
Location
South of Makkah (Saudi Arabia).
References
[1] For details see Müfid Yüksel's thread.
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