Image: Ramadan ibn Alauddin epitaph
Description: Epitaph of Ramadan ibn Alauddin, first named Muslim from Korea, located in the cemetery of Huaisheng Mosque, Guangzhou. Arabic in center, Classical Chinese in the margins. Arabic: [Qur'an 3:185, followed by the Throne Verse] The Messenger of God said long ago, "He who dies in a foreign land dies as a martyr." This grave is where Ramaḍān ibn Alāʼ ud-Dīn, having died, has returned. May God forgive him and have mercy upon him and [illegible]. [illegible] who has visited Aleppo writes in the date of Rajab [illegible] in the year 751 [September 1450], blessed by God. Chinese: Ramadan [剌馬丹 Lámǎdān], occupant of Qingxuangguan at Wanping Prefecture in Dadu Circuit, was a Korean. He was thirty-eight years old and had then been appointed as darughachi at Luchuan Prefecture in Rongzhou, Guangxi Province. He passed away on the twenty-third day of the third month of the ninth year of Zhizheng [April 11, 1349]. He was buried on the eighteenth day of the eighth month [September 30] at Guihuagang by the Liuhua Bridge at Chengbei, Guangzhou [location of the Muslim cemetery]. An epitaph was raised.
Title: Ramadan ibn Alauddin epitaph
Credit: Screenshotted from Park Heon-kyu 2004; see Wikipedia
Author: Park Hyeon-kyu
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