QMI-INS-004b · c. 35 AH
Inscription of al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī: “the Time of the Rebellion of Egypt”
نقش الحارث بن بولي: زمن طغي مصر
Darb Ḥismā, north-western Arabia
- أنا الحارث بن بولي مولى عبد
- الله بن سبع (سباع) وكتب
- زمن طغي مصر
I am al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī, client (mawlā) of ʿAbd- allāh ibn Sibāʿ, and he wrote [this] at the time of the rebellion (ṭughy) of Egypt.
The third graffito of al-Ḥārith ibn Būlī, again on the Ḥismā road. He now calls himself the mawlā (freed client) of ʿAbdallāh ibn Sibāʿ, no longer his ghulām, which suggests he had been freed since his earlier texts (QMI-INS-000a, QMI-INS-002a). The hand is also firmer.
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.