QMI-INS-055aha · 114 AH
Inscription of Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ, Rawāwah
نقش محمد بن عمر بن حفص، رواوة
Rawāwah, al-Madīnah region, Saudi Arabia
- تاب الله على
- محمد بن عمر بن
- حفص بن عا
- [صم ما] تقدم من
- ذنبه وما تأخر
- آمين رب مو
- سى وهرون
- [وكت]ب في سنة ا
- [ربع عشرة] ومئة
May God turn in forgiveness to Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀ- [ṣim, for what] preceded of his sins and what is to come. Amen, Lord of Mo- ses and Aaron. And [this] was written in the year [four-teen] and one hundred.
A nine-line prayer from Rawāwah near al-Madīnah asking that God “turn” to Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim and forgive “what preceded of his sins and what is to come”, closing with “Amen, Lord of Moses and Aaron”. The writer is a great-great-grandson of the caliph ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb through ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar, and a brother of ʿĀṣim and ʿAbdallāh, sons of ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ, whose prayers of 121 AH come from the same site (QMI-INS-055wb, QMI-INS-055w).
Source: Alhatlani, Abdullah Saad. Descendants and Ancestors: A Study of Arabic Inscriptions from the Arabian Peninsula (1st–4th c. AH/7th–10th c. CE). PhD thesis, Leiden University, 2021 (hdl.handle.net/1887/3217834), ch. 2, no. 57, p. 251 (first publication; photograph by the author).