QMI-INS-062 · Shawwāl 177 AH
Inscription of Ṣāʿid, al-Quwayʿiyyah
نقش صاعد، القويعية
al-Quwayʿiyyah, Riyadh region, Saudi Arabia
- غفر الله لصاعد ورحمه
- وادخله جنات النعيم ولمن
- قال آمين وصلى الله على
- رسوله محمد وعليه
- السلام وكتب بشوال سنة
- سبع وسبعين ومائة
May God forgive Ṣāʿid and have mercy on him and make him enter the Gardens of Bliss, and [forgive] whoever says “Amen”. And may God bless His Messenger Muḥammad, and upon him be peace. And [it] was written in Shawwāl of the year seven and seventy and one hundred.
A prayer for Ṣāʿid, asking that God forgive him, have mercy on him and admit him to the Gardens of Bliss, together with whoever says “Amen”. It closes with a blessing on the Prophet and is dated Shawwāl 177 AH (January–February 794 CE). The publishers describe the script as undotted Kūfic.
Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Muṭawwaʿ, post on X, 2 January 2021 (photographs and reading); also ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿd al-Shāfī (@ASHK112233), post on X, 12 June 2021 (description of the site).