QMI-INS-004cd · before c. 125 AH
First Inscription of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid, al-Bāḥah
نقش إسماعيل بن عبد الرحمن بن خالد (الأول)، الباحة
Wādī Khara, al-Bāḥah region, Saudi Arabia
- أنا إسمعيل (إسماعيل) بن عبد ا
- لرحمن بن خلد (خالد) أ
- سل (أسأل) الله ا
- لمغفرة
I, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al- Raḥmān ibn Khālid, a- sk God for forgiveness.
A four-line prayer by Ismāʿīl, son of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and grandson of the Companion Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ: “I, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid, ask God for forgiveness.” Ismāʿīl and Khālid are both written without the long alif, and asʾalu is again written أسل, as in his father's prayer (QMI-INS-004cb). The writer divides words freely across the line ends (ʿAbd a-/l-Raḥmān, a-/sʾalu, a-/l-maghfirah).
Source: Qashshāsh, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd. Nuqūsh al-ṣaḥābī al-jalīl Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ wa-abnāʾihi fī manṭiqat al-Bāḥah. 1st ed., 2015, pp. 43–44; 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. 5, p. 218 (photograph).