QMI-INS-049 · 98 AH
Poetic Inscription of Abū Jaʿfar ibn Ḥasan al-Hāshimī
نقش شعري
Ḥurumān region, Makkah al-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia
- أفنا (أفنى) الجديد تقلب الشمس
- وطلوعها من حيث لا تسمي (لا تمسي)
- وطلوعها بيضا (بيضاء) صافية وغروبها
- صفرا (صفراء) كالورس
- وكتب أبو جعفر بن حسن الهاشمي
- سنة ثمان
- وتسعين
A rare poetic (rather than devotional or documentary) inscription in this corpus — four lines of verse reflecting on the sun's daily cycle as a metaphor for the passage of time and the wearing-away of all that is new, signed by a self-identified Hāshimite (a member of the Prophet's clan). Almost nothing else in the catalog resembles it in genre.
Source: Nāṣir ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥārithī, al-Āthār al-Islāmiyyah fī Makkah al-Mukarramah (Riyadh, 1430/2009), 526.