QMI-INS-055af · 110 AH
Inscription of Rāghim ibn Mukhlid: “Returning from the Pilgrimage”
نقش راغم بن مخلد: مقبل من الحج
Ḥismā, north-western Arabia
- مر راغمـ (زاعمـ؟) ابن مخلد الفر..قدي؟
- الجمعة مستهل المحرم سنة
- عشرة و مئة مقبل من الحج
Rāghim [or Zāʿim?] ibn Mukhlid al-Far…qadī (?) passed by, on Friday, the first of al-Muḥarram of the year ten and one hundred, returning from the pilgrimage.
A traveller’s note dated to the day: the writer records that he “passed by” (marra) on Friday, the first of al-Muḥarram 110 AH (16 April 728 CE), in the caliphate of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, “returning from the pilgrimage” (muqbil min al-ḥajj). The Ḥajj of 109 AH had ended some three weeks earlier, so the text catches a pilgrim on his way home along the Ḥismā road towards Syria. The hand is uneven and the words are scattered rather than set on clear lines, and the writer’s name and nisba remain uncertain in the published reading: the first name may be Rāghim or Zāʿim, and the nisba is only partly legible.
Source: Desert Team (فريق الصحراء), “Nuqūsh wa-ḥikāyāt min zaman al-ṣaḥābah wa-l-tābiʿīn”, alsahra.org, June 2025, no. 28. Reading by ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Saʿīd. Weekday computed by the tabular Hijri calendar for this catalog.