QMI-INS-055kh · 120 AH
Inscription of ʿUthmān ibn ʿUbaydallāh, Rawāwah
نقش عثمان بن عبيد الله، رواوة
Rawāwah, al-Madīnah region, Saudi Arabia
- [أنا] عثمن (عثمان) بن عبيد [الله]
- [آ]منت بالله ا
- لعظيم و…
- [و]كتب [في سنة]
- ع[ش]رين ومائة
[I,] ʿUthmān ibn ʿUbayd[allāh], believe in God the Al- mighty, and … and [this] was written [in the year] twenty and one hundred.
A short declaration of faith from Rawāwah, written in the first person: “[I,] ʿUthmān ibn ʿUbaydallāh, believe in God the Almighty”, dated 120 AH (737–738 CE), in the caliphate of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik. The surface is worn in lines 1, 3, 4 and 5, and the bracketed letters are restored by the editor. Other texts at Rawāwah and nearby give the writer's full lineage, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUbaydallāh ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿUmar: a great-grandson of the caliph ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb through his son ʿAbdallāh.
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. 6, p. 223 (first publication; photograph by the author).