QMI-INS-055agb · 113 AH
Inscription of Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbdallāh, Jabal Usays
نقش حفص بن عبد الله، جبل أسيس
Jabal Usays, Syria; now in the National Museum, Damascus (inv. ʿ/15106)
- اللهم أصلح عبدك
- حفص بن عبد الله وكتب
- في ذي القعدة سنة ثلث
- عشرة ومائة
O God, set right Your servant Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbdallāh. And he wrote [this] in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year thir- teen and one hundred.
A short prayer from Jabal Usays, asking God to “set right” (aṣliḥ) His servant Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbdallāh, dated Dhū al-Qaʿdah 113 AH. The verb asks for more than forgiveness: it is a prayer that the man’s life and affairs be made sound. The number “three” is written thlth, without the long alif, as usual in first- and second-century dates. The slab was later taken to the National Museum in Damascus.
Source: Abū al-Faraj al-ʿUsh, Muḥammad. "Kitābāt ʿArabīyah Ghayr Manshūrah fī Jabal Usays." Majallat al-Abḥāth 17, no. 3 (September 1964): 361, text no. 42, plate 26. National Museum, Damascus, inv. ʿ/15106.