An Inscription From Madinah Containing A Statement Of Belief, 100 AH / 718-719 CE

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Assalamu ʿalaykum wa rahamatullahi wa barakatuhu:

(a)

(b)

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Figure (a) original inscription, (b) its transcription and (c) its contents. [] encloses letters supplied to fill a lacuna.

Date

100 AH / 718-719 CE.

Size

76 cm x 48 cm.

Script

Kufic script.

Contents

The translation of the inscription is:

  1. Abū Salmah bin ʿUbayd
  2. Allāh bin ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿUmar
  3. believed in God.
  4. And written in the year hundred.

Comments

This individual may be a descendant of ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿUmar bin al-Khaṭṭāb.

Location

Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah.

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References

[1] Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Rāshid, Kitābāt Islāmiyyah Ghayr Manshurah Min "Ruwāwat" Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah Dirāsat Wa-Taḥqīq, 1993, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), pp. 98-100.

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