QMI-INS-014g · c. 72 AH
Copper Plaque over the North Door of the Dome of the Rock
اللوحة النحاسية على الباب الشمالي لقبة الصخرة
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي لا اله الا هو الحي القيوم لا شريك له الاحد الصمد لم يلد ولم
- يولد ولم يكن له كفوا احد محمد عبد الله ورسوله ارسله الله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله
- ولو كره المشركون امنا بالله وبما انزل على محمد وبما (وما) اوتي النبيون من ربهم لا نفرق بين احد منهم ونحن
- له مسلمون صلى الله على محمد عبده ونبيه والسلم (والسلام) عليه ورحمت (ورحمة) الله وبركته (وبركاته) ومغفرته ورضونه (ورضوانه)
- مما امر به عبد الله عبد الله الامام المامون (المأمون) امير المومنين (المؤمنين) اطال الله بقاه (بقاءه) في ولاية اخي امير المومنين ابي اسحق (إسحاق) بن امير / مما امر به عبد الله عبد الله الامام المامون امير المومنين اطال الله بقاه في ولاية اخي امير المومنين ابي اسحق بن امير
- المومنين الرشيد ابقاه الله وجرا (وجرى) على يدي صلح (صالح) بن يحيى مولى امير المومنين في شهر ربيع الاخر سنة ست عشرة ومايتين (ومائتين) / المومنين الرشيد ابقاه الله وجرا على يدي صلح بن يحيى مولى امير المومنين في شهر ربيع الاخر سنة ست عشرة ومايتين
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise be to God; there is no god but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting; He has no partner; the One, the Eternal; He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none equal to Him. Muḥammad is the servant of God and His messenger, whom God sent with the guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over all religion, even though the polytheists dislike it. We believe in God and in what was sent down to Muḥammad and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we submit. God bless Muḥammad, His servant and His prophet, and peace be upon him, and the mercy of God, His blessings, His forgiveness and His good pleasure. Among what the servant of God ʿAbdallāh, the imam al-Maʾmūn, Commander of the Faithful, ordered, may God prolong his life, under the governorship of the brother of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū Isḥāq, son of the Commander of the Faithful al-Rashīd, may God preserve him; carried out by Ṣāliḥ ibn Yaḥyā, client of the Commander of the Faithful, in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year two hundred and sixteen.
The smaller of the two copper plaques from the doors of the Dome of the Rock, which hung above the inner side of the north door; it is now in the Islamic Museum of the Ḥaram in Jerusalem. Like its companion over the east door (QMI-INS-014), its letters are raised in gilded repoussé on a blue ground. Inside its frame it measures 238 × 52 cm; the two original panels measure about 120.5 × 37 and 121.5–122 × 35.4–37 cm.
Source: Khader Salameh, al-Nuqūsh fī al-Matḥaf al-Islāmī maʿa nuqūsh Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah al-Umawiyyah (Jerusalem: al-Maktabah al-Khālidiyyah, 2024), pp. 57–66; photograph from the same. See also Max van Berchem, Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, II: Syrie du Sud, Jérusalem, Ḥaram.