QMI-INS-055da · 108 AH
Second Inscription of al-Haytham ibn Ziyād, Najrān
النقش الثاني للهيثم بن زياد، نجران
Najrān region
- غفر الله للهيثم
- بن زياد ولمن استغفر ربه
- آمين رب العلمين (العالمين)
- وكتب في رمضن (رمضان) من سنة
- ثمن (ثمان) ومئة
May God forgive al-Haytham ibn Ziyād, and whoever asks forgiveness of his Lord. Amen, Lord of the worlds. And [this] was written in Ramaḍān of the year one hundred and eight.
A five-line prayer for forgiveness for al-Haytham ibn Ziyād, dated Ramaḍān 108 AH (January 727 CE), in the caliphate of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik. It is the second dated text for the same man from the Najrān region: an earlier prayer for mercy, dated Rajab of the same year, was written two months before (QMI-INS-055d). Neither text names its writer.
Source: Photograph by Mishʿal ibn ʿAbdallāh (@mashalgrad), published on X, 30 October 2021.