QMI-INS-067 · 190 AH
Inscription of Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Fārisī, al-Ukhdūd (Najrān)
نقش محمد بن النضر الفارسي، الأخدود (نجران)
al-Ukhdūd archaeological site, Najrān, Saudi Arabia
- عبدالله يؤمن
- بالله العظيم
- صلى الله على محمد النبي
- ورضى عنه وكتب محمد بن
- النضر الفارسي في سنة
- تسعين و مائة
ʿAbd Allāh believes in God the Almighty. May God bless Muḥammad the Prophet and be pleased with him. And Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Fārisī wrote [this] in the year ninety and one hundred.
A statement of faith with a blessing on the Prophet, signed by Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Fārisī and dated 190 AH (805–806 CE), from the al-Ukhdūd site at Najrān. The opening words ʿAbd Allāh may be a personal name or may mean “the servant of God”; the post does not say which.
Source: Mālik al-Sulaymī (“Āthārī”), post on X, 25 September 2020 (reading); photograph credited in the post to Saʿd ibn Muḥammad al-Tuwayjirī.