According to Henri d'Allemagne in his book Du Khorassan au Pays des Bakhtiaris, in which this tile panel is illustrated (vol.2, p.44), the tiles were acquired by him from the Masjid-i Jami' at Khvaf in north eastern Iran. Today only the sanctuary aivan, dome chamber and a part of the courtyard have survived. There are no traces of the original tile revetments. The mosque has been dated between about 1465 and 1502 (O'Kane, cat. no.26).

The cuerda seca technique of tile decoration was being practised in Khurasan from the early 15th century. There are examples in the madrasa of Khargird which is not far from Khvaf. The combination of thuluth script with kufic is not uncommon in foundation inscriptions executed in mosaic tile work in the Timurid period in Transoxiana and Iran, but examples in the cuerda seca technique are less common.

The hadith in the inscription does not appear in the canonical books of hadith and may be an apocryphal tradition (mawdu').

d'Allemagne, H.R.: Du Khorassan au Pays des Bakhtiaris: Trois Mois de Voyage en Perse, Paris 1911
O'Kane, B.: Timurid Architecture in Khurasan, Costa Mesa, California 1987