QMI-INS-055he · c. 100–153 AH
Inscription of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī, Bajda
نقش عبد الحميد بن جعفر بن عبد الله بن الحكم الأنصاري، بجدة
Bajda Mountains, Ḥismā plateau, west of Tabūk, Saudi Arabia
- أنا عبد الحميد ا
- بن جعفر ابن عبد الله
- ابن الحكم الأنصاري
- حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل
I am ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī. God suffices me, and He is the best guardian.
On a rock face in the Bajda mountains of the Ḥismā, among other early texts, a man gave his name with three generations of his descent: “I am ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī”. He closed with the Qurʾānic words ḥasbiya Allāhu wa-niʿma al-wakīl, “God suffices me, and He is the best guardian” (compare Q 3:173). The name ibn is divided between the first and second lines.
Photograph: ʿUbayd al-ʿAṭāwī. Dating: QMI. On ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar: Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-taʿdīl; al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl; Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-tahdhīb and Taqrīb al-tahdhīb.