A Rock Inscription From Makkah Containing Qur'an 38:26, 80 AH / 699-700 CE
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Assalamu ʿalaykum wa rahamatullahi wa barakatuhu:
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(b)
Figure: (a) Original inscription and (b) its content.
Date
80 AH / 699-700 CE.
Size & Script
140 cm x 140 cm. Written in kufic script
Contents
The translation of the inscription is:
- "Oh David, we have indeed made you
- a vicegerent on earth.
- So judge between men
- in justice, and do not follow your desires
- which will mislead you from the path of God. Verily, for those who stray
- from the path of God is severe chastisement, for those who have forgotten the Day of
- Reckoning." And this was inscribed by ʿUthmān bin
- Wahran in the year eighty.
Comments
Notice that only part of last line of the inscription is transliterated by the author. The inscription contains complete Qur'an 38:26 as shown below.
ʿUthmān bin Wahran also left two other inscriptions (1, 2) containing Qur'an bearing the same date.
Location
Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Picture taken from here.
References
[1] S. A. Fahmī, "Naqshāni Jadīdāni Min Makkah Al-Mukarramah Mu'rikhan Bi-Sanat Thamānīna Hijrīyya", Al-Manhal, 1987 / 1407 AH, Volume 53, No. 454, pp. 350-351.
[2] Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Rāshid, Kitābāt Islāmiyya Min Makkah al-Mukarramah, 1995, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), pp. 160-161.
[3] Nāṣir b. Alī Al-Hārithī, "Nuqūsh Islāmīyyah Mabkarah Fī Wādī Al-ʿAshīlah Bi-Makkah Al-Mukarramah", ʿĀlam Al-Makhṭūṭāt Wa Al-Nawādir, 1997, Volume 2, No. 1, pp. 12-65, esp. p. 34 and p. 48.
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