QMI-INS-004ce · before c. 125 AH
Second Inscription of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid, al-Bāḥah
نقش إسماعيل بن عبد الرحمن بن خالد (الثاني)، الباحة
Shiʿb ʿĀfiyah, Wādī Khara, al-Bāḥah region, Saudi Arabia
- بسم الله الرحمن الر
- حيم أنا إسمعيل (إسماعيل) ا
- بن عبد الرحمن
- بن خلد (خالد) أخلصت
- ديني للوارث
- الوال (الوالي)
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. I, Ismāʿīl, son of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid, have devoted my religion purely to the Inheritor, the Protector.
Six lines at Shiʿb ʿĀfiyah in Wādī Khara, opening with the full basmalah: “In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. I, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid, have devoted my religion purely to the Inheritor, the Protector.” Akhlaṣtu dīnī takes up the Qurʾānic phrase of sincere worship, “Say: God I worship, devoting my religion purely to Him” (mukhliṣan lahu dīnī, Q 39:14).
Source: Qashshāsh, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd. Nuqūsh al-ṣaḥābī al-jalīl Khālid ibn al-ʿĀṣ wa-abnāʾihi fī manṭiqat al-Bāḥah. 1st ed., 2015, pp. 45–46; 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. 6, p. 218 (photograph).