QMI-INS-004cc · before c. 85 AH
Inscription of al-Ḥārith ibn Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ, al-Bāḥah
نقش الحارث بن خالد بن العاص، الباحة
Wādī Khara, al-Bāḥah region, Saudi Arabia
- أنا الحرث (الحارث) بن خلد (خالد) بن العص (العاص) أستغفر
- ربي
I, al-Ḥārith ibn Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ, ask forgiveness of my Lord.
A long single line, 135 cm across, with the last word set below it: “I, al-Ḥārith ibn Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ, ask forgiveness of my Lord.” The wording repeats his father's prayer on a nearby boulder, astaghfiru rabbī (QMI-INS-004c), and all three names are written without the long alif: الحرث, خلد, العص.
Source: Qashshāsh, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd. Nuqūsh al-ṣaḥābī al-jalīl Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ wa-abnāʾihi fī manṭiqat al-Bāḥah. 1st ed., 2015, pp. 42–43; 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. 7, p. 219 (photograph).