QMI-INS-004ca · 1st c. AH
Prayer of Ziyād for Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ, al-Bāḥah
دعاء زياد لخالد بن العاص، الباحة
Wādī Khara, al-Bāḥah region, Saudi Arabia
- رحمت الله
- على خلد (خالد) بن العص (العاص)
- وعلى ما (من) يصلي عليه
- بخير وكتب زياد
The mercy of God be upon Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ and upon whoever prays for him with good; and Ziyād wrote [this].
A four-line prayer in which the writer does not pray for himself but for Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ: “The mercy of God be upon Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ, and upon whoever prays for him with good.” It is signed by Ziyād, who is not otherwise identified. The wish extends the blessing to every later reader who adds a prayer for Khālid, a device also found in prayers that close “may God have mercy on whoever says amen”.
Source: Qashshāsh, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd. Nuqūsh al-ṣaḥābī al-jalīl Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ wa-abnāʾihi fī manṭiqat al-Bāḥah. 1st ed., 2015, p. 10, n. 1; Alhatlani, Abdullah Saad. Descendants and Ancestors: A Study of Arabic Inscriptions from the Arabian Peninsula (1st–4th c. AH/7th–10th c. CE). PhD thesis, Leiden University, 2021 (hdl.handle.net/1887/3217834), ch. 1, no. 2, p. 216 (photograph).