QMI-INS-004c · c. 8–60 AH
Inscription of Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ, al-Bāḥah
نقش خالد بن العاص، الباحة
al-Bāḥah region
- أنا خلد (خالد) بن العص (العاص) بن
- هشم (هشام) بن ا
- لمغيرة استغفر
- ربي لذنبي كله
I am Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Hishām ibn al- Mughīrah. I ask forgiveness of my Lord for all my sins.
A first-person prayer for forgiveness by Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīrah of Makhzūm, cut on a large boulder in the al-Bāḥah region among several other texts. He names himself with three generations of ancestors and asks forgiveness “for all my sins” (li-dhanbī kullihi). The names are written without the long alif (khld, al-ʿṣ, hshm), as is usual in the early Ḥijāzī hand, and al-Mughīrah is divided across the line end after the alif of the article.
Source: Qashshāsh, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd. Nuqūsh al-ṣaḥābī al-jalīl Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ wa-abnāʾihi fī manṭiqat al-Bāḥah. 1st ed., 2015.