QMI-INS-018 · 78 AH
Inscription of Ibn al-ʿĀṣ
نقش ابن العاص
Qāʿ al-Muʿtadil, Darb al-Ḥajj
- ]بالله آمن[
- ] ... بن العاص[
- وصحبته (وصحابته) من أهل قنسرين
- وكتب ثمن (ثمان) وسبعين
[Believes] in God ...] ibn al-ʿĀṣ and his companions, from the people of Qinnasrīn, and it was written [in the year] seventy-eight.
The first two lines are badly eroded; the brackets mark reconstructed readings the editor considers most likely rather than certain text. The mention of Qinnasrīn (in northern Syria) ties this otherwise anonymous group of companions to a specific garrison region. Found on the same Syrian pilgrim route (Darb al-Ḥajj al-Shāmī) as the Zuhayr inscriptions (nos. 1–2 in this catalog).
Source: al-Kilābī, Ḥayāt. al-Nuqūsh al-Islāmīyah ʿalā Ṭarīq al-Ḥajj al-Shāmī bi-Shamāl Gharb al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabīyah al-Saʿūdīyah min al-Qarn al-Awwal ilā al-Qarn al-Khāmis al-Hijrī. al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Waṭanīyah, 1430 AH / 2009, pp. 61–73.