QMI-INS-055pb · 132 AH
Inscription of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khaṭṭāb, north of al-Madīnah
نقش عبد الرحمن بن خطاب، شمال المدينة
North of al-Madīnah
- آمن عبد الرحمن
- بن خطاب بالله ا
- لعظيم
- وكتبت سنة ثنتين و
- ثلاثين ومائة
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khaṭṭāb believes in God the Almighty. And it was written in the year two and thirty and one hundred.
A short profession of faith from the country north of al-Madīnah, dated 132 AH, the year in which the Umayyad caliphate fell to the ʿAbbāsids. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khaṭṭāb declares that he “believes in God the Almighty” (āmana … bi-llāh al-ʿaẓīm), and the record of writing uses the feminine passive, wa-kutibat, “and it was written”, with the inscription itself as its subject. The article of al-ʿaẓīm is divided across the line end (a-/lʿẓym), a habit seen in other texts of the region.
Source: al-Mughadhdhawī, Muḥammad (@mohammed93athar), Nawādir al-āthār wa-l-nuqūsh, X (formerly Twitter), 31 July 2022 (“the seventh inscription”). Photograph and reading by the publisher.