QMI-INS-055tb · 102 AH
Gravestone of Fāṭimah bint al-Ḥasan, Aswān
شاهد قبر فاطمة بنت الحسن، أسوان
Aswān cemetery, Upper Egypt
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- تبارك الذي بيده الملك
- وهو على كل شيء قدير
- هذا قبر فاطمة ابنة
- الحسن بن [...] رحمة الله
- ومغفرته ورضوانه عليه
- توفي يوم الاثنين أول يوم
- من شعبان من سنة اثنين ومائة
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Blessed is He in whose hand is the dominion, and He is over all things powerful [Q 67:1]. This is the grave of Fāṭimah, daughter of al-Ḥasan ibn […]. The mercy of God, His forgiveness and His good pleasure be upon him (sic). He (sic) died on Monday, the first day of Shaʿbān, in the year two and one hundred.
A sandstone gravestone from the cemetery of Aswān in Upper Egypt, dated Monday, 1 Shaʿbān 102 AH (4 February 721 CE). After the basmalah it opens with the first verse of Sūrat al-Mulk, “Blessed is He in whose hand is the dominion, and He is over all things powerful” (Q 67:1), a fitting verse at a grave, since the next verse speaks of the One “who created death and life”. It then names the dead, Fāṭimah daughter of al-Ḥasan, whose grandfather’s name is lost, and asks God’s mercy, forgiveness and good pleasure for her.
Source: ʿAbd al-Tawab, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān M. Stèles islamiques de la nécropole d’Assouan. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1977. Photograph by J.-F. Gout © Institut français d’archéologie orientale.