QMI-INS-055a · 103 AH
Inscription of ʿAbdallāh ibn Saʿīd
نقش عبد الله بن سعيد
Location unpublished
- رحمت الله على عبد
- الله بن سعيد آمين ر
- ب العلمين (العالمين) وكتب
- في رمضن (رمضان) سنة ثلاث
- ومئة
The mercy of God be upon ʿAbd- allāh ibn Saʿīd. Amen, Lo- rd of the worlds. And [this] was written in Ramaḍān of the year one hundred and three.
A prayer for mercy dated by month and year: Ramaḍān 103 AH (February–March 722 CE), in the caliphate of Yazīd II. The spelling shows the habits of the period: “raḥmat” is written with an open tāʾ, and both “al-ʿālamīn” and “Ramaḍān” are written without the long alif. As in many inscriptions of the catalog, the writer carries words over the line end (ʿAbd-/allāh, Ra-/bb). It is one of the few inscriptions in the catalog dated after 100 AH. Its location has not been published.
Source: al-Tuwayjirī, ʿAbdallāh. Photograph and reading posted on X (formerly Twitter), 9 September 2017.