QMI-INS-008 · 52 AH
Inscription of Ḥakīm ibn ʿAlī
نقش حكيم بن علي
Wādī al-Khushanah, on Darb Zubaydah
- اللهم اغفر لحكيم
- بن علي بن هبيرة و
- كتب لسنة ثنتين وخمسين
O God, forgive Ḥakīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Hubayrah, and it was written in the year fifty-two.
Found by a survey expedition at Wādī al-Khushanah on Darb Zubaydah in 1997. Scholars have read the personal names in several different ways — "Ḥakīm" has also been proposed as Ḥudhaym, Judhaym, Ḥadabah or Hadiyyah, and "Hubayrah" as Hunaydah — since letters such as kāf/dāl and rāʾ/dāl are graphically similar in this undotted early hand. The inscription carries no diacritical dots at all.
Source: Sharaf al-Dīn, Aḥmad Ḥusayn. "al-Nuqūsh al-Islāmīyah bi-Darb Zubaydah." Aṭlāl: Annual of Saudi Arabian Archaeology 1 (1977): 73–74.