QMI-INS-000a · c. 22 AH
Inscription of al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī: “the Time Abū Masʿūd Was Detained”
نقش الحارث بن بولي: زمن حُبس أبو مسعود
Darb Ḥismā, north-western Arabia
- أنا أبو الوليد الحرث (الحارث)
- فت[…] غلم (غلام) عبد الله بن سبع (سباع) وكتب
- هذا زمن حُبس أبو مسعود
I am Abū l-Walīd al-Ḥārith, […] the young man (ghulām) of ʿAbdallāh ibn Sibāʿ, and he wrote this at the time Abū Masʿūd was detained.
The first of three graffiti by the same man, al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī, who dates each one by an event rather than by year (QMI-INS-002a, QMI-INS-004b). Here he is still the ghulām (young servant) of ʿAbdallāh ibn Sibāʿ, and he records that he wrote “at the time Abū Masʿūd was detained”.
Source: Desert Team (Farīq al-Ṣaḥrāʾ), “al-Taʾrīkh bi-l-ḥawādith fī al-nuqūsh al-islāmiyyah al-mubakkirah”, alsahra.org, 4 May 2018. Reading and dating by ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Saʿīd. First published in Nuqūsh Ḥismā (Riyadh: Dār al-Majallah al-ʿArabiyyah, 2017).