This stone inscription was found in the vicinity of the Well of Murayghaan, 230 km from Najiran, Saudi Arabia It is about a military incursion into Arabia against the tribe of Ma’ad. Places are not really mentioned, just the names of the tribes. After conquering the tribes Abraha returns to Yemen. The date given corresponds to 552 AD.
The translation into English reads:
« By ,the power of the Merciful One and His Messiah, the king Abra:ha
(etc.) wrote this inscription when he had raided Matadd in the spring
razzia in the month .!l!!btn(and) when all the Ban'ii tAmir had revolted.
Now 1Jheking sent 'BGBR with the Kindites and tAlites and BSR son
of I;If?N with the Sa'dites and these two commanders of the army did
battle and fonght, (namely) the Kindite column against the Bani <Amir
and the Muradite ,and Sa'dite column against... in the valley on the
TRBN route and they slew and made captive (the enemy) and took
satisfactory booty. The king, on the other hand, did battle at ij:alibii.n
and the (troops ') of Ma<add were defeated and forced to give hostages.
After all this <Amr son of al-Mundhir negotiated with Abraha 9 and
agreed to give hostages to kbraha fromal-Mundhir, foral-Mundhir had
invested him «Amr) with the governorship over Ma<add.So Abraha returned
from Haliban Ibythe power of 'the Merciful One (em.).)