QMI-INS-036 · 88 AH
Inscription of ʿAbdallāh ibn Saʿd
نقش عبد الله بن سعد
Qāʿ al-Muʿtadil, Darb al-Ḥajj
- اللهم اغفر
- لعبد ]ا[
- لله بن سعد بن عبد
- الله بن سعد بن أبي
- ذباب النمري
- امين ر]ب[ العلمين (العالمين) و هو
- أمر بهذا المجلس في
- جمدى (جمادى) لسنة ثمن (ثمان) و
- ثمنين (ثمانين)
O God, forgive ʿAbd- allāh ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd- allāh ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Dhubāb al-Namarī. Āmīn, Lord of the Worlds. And he commanded this assembly (majlis) in Jumādā, in the year eight and eighty.
A four-generation genealogy packed into a single prayer (ʿAbdallāh ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Dhubāb, of the Banū al-Namir), on the same rock face at Qāʿ al-Muʿtadil as several other Darb al-Ḥajj inscriptions in this catalog. The reference to "this assembly" (hādhā al-majlis) is unusual, hinting at some gathering or occasion tied to the inscription's creation that the text does not further explain.
Source: al-Mughadhdhawī, Muḥammad (@mohammed93athar). Twitter, 22 October 2019.