QMI-INS-055aea · 116 AH
Inscription of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUqbah, Jabal al-Shaʿthāʾ (al-Ṭāʾif)
نقش عبد الله بن عقبة، جبل الشعثاء (الطائف)
Jabal al-Shaʿthāʾ, al-Quwaysim site, al-Ṭāʾif region, Saudi Arabia, on the upper Yemeni (“Najdī”) pilgrim road (as described by the publisher)
- رحم الله على عبد الله
- بن عقبة بن (نمار) وغفر له ذنبه
- وجعل ميتته قتل (وجعل ميتته قتل في سبيل ربه)
- على طاعته وطاعة رسوله
- وملته وكتب سنة ست
- عشرة ومائة
May God have mercy on ʿAbd Allāh son of ʿUqbah son of (Nimār), and forgive him his sin, and make his death a killing (that is, a death in the path of his Lord), in obedience to Him and obedience to His Messenger and His religion. And [this] was written in the year six- teen and one hundred.
A prayer for ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUqbah, dated 116 AH (734–735 CE), on Jabal al-Shaʿthāʾ at the al-Quwaysim site in the al-Ṭāʾif region. The publisher places it on the upper Yemeni pilgrim road, known as the “Najdī” road. The writer asks that his death be a killing in the path of God, in obedience to God and His Messenger.
Source: @ARCH1993, post on X (photograph and reading). The date of the post is not shown in the copy received.