QMI-INS-009c · 1st c. AH
Inscription of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥassān, Tabūk
نقش عبد الرحمن بن حسان، تبوك
Tabūk region, Saudi Arabia
- أنا عبد الرحمن بن حسان الحسم (الحسام)
I am ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥassān al-Ḥusām.
A single line among many texts on the same rock face (marked 2 on the photograph): “I am ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥassān al-Ḥusām”. The last word, written الحسم without the long ā, reads al-Ḥusām, “the sword”.
Photograph: Saʿd al-Tuwayjirī. On Ḥassān ibn Thābit and his kunyah Abū al-Ḥusām: Ibn al-Athīr, Usd al-ghābah, s.v. Ḥassān ibn Thābit.