QMI-INS-002a · c. 24 AH
Inscription of al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī: “the Time the Commander of the Faithful Was Killed”
نقش الحارث بن بولي: زمن قُتل أمير المؤمنين
Outskirts of Medina
- أنا الحرث (الحارث) ا
- بن بولي غلم (غلام) ابن
- سبع (سباع) وكتبت هذا
- الكتب زمن قتل
- امير المؤمنين
I am al-Ḥārith i- bn Būlī, the young man (ghulām) of Ibn Sibāʿ, and I wrote this writing at the time of the killing of the Commander of the Faithful.
The second graffito of al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī, found on the outskirts of Medina by Muḥammad al-Mughadhdhawī. It names him in full (al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī) and confirms that the writer of the Ḥismā texts was a man of Medina (QMI-INS-000a, QMI-INS-004b).
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. Discovered by Muḥammad al-Mughadhdhawī.