QMI-INS-022 · 80 AH
Inscription of Maymūn, Mawlā of Abū Maryam
نقش ميمون مولى أبو مريم
Wādī al-Ṣānī
- أنا ميمون مولى
- أبو مريم مولى رباح
- اسل (اسأل) الجنة نزلاً
- والملئكة (الملائكة) رسلاً
- وكتب في سنة ثمنين (ثمانين)
I, Maymūn, client (mawlā) of Abū Maryam, client of Rabāḥ, ask for Paradise as a lodging and the angels as an escort, and it was written in the year eighty.
Maymūn names not only his own patron (Abū Maryam) but that patron's own client-relationship to Rabāḥ, a rare three-generation chain of mawlā ties recorded in a single short prayer. The "Paradise as a lodging, angels as an escort" formula echoes the same request seen in the inscription of al-Walīd ibn Maʿbad (no. 20) from the same year.
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.