Rûmîyah together with its spring belonged to al-Walîd ibn-ʿUḳbah ibn-abi-Muʿaiṭ who gave it to abu-Zubaid aṭ-Ṭâʾi from whom it passed to abu-l-'Abbâs the "Commander of the Believers." Abu-l-ʿAbbâs gave it as fief to Maimûn ibn-Ḥamzah, the freedman of ʿAli ibn-ʿAbdallâh ibn-ʿAbbâs, from whose heirs ar-Rashîd bought it. It lies in the district of ar-Raḳḳah.
Ghâbat ibn-Hubairah. Ghâbat ibn-Hubairah [the forest of ibn-Hubairah] was first given as fief to ibn-Hubairah, but later confiscated and assigned as fief to Bishr ibn-Maimûn, the builder of aṭ-Ṭâḳât[1] [archways or arcades] at Baghdâdh in the vicinity of Bâb ash-Shâm [the Syrian gate]. This Ghâbat was later bought by ar-Rashîd. It lies in the province of Sarûj.
ʿÂʾishah fief. The fief which was given by Hishâm to his daughter, ʿÂʾishah, at Râskîfa and which bore her name was also confiscated.
Salaʿûs and Kafarjadda. ʿAbd-al-Malik and Hishâm owned a village called Salaʿûs and half of another called Kafarjadda which lay in the province of ar-Ruha.
Tall ʿAfrâʾ, Tall Madhâba, al-Muṣalla and Rabaḍ Harrân. In Ḥarrân, al-Ghamr ibn-Yazîd owned Tall ʿAfraʾ, the land of Tall Madhâba,[2] and Arẖ al-Muṣalla [place of prayer], together with the confiscated lands and the workshops in Rabaḍ Ḥarrân.
Marj ʿAbd-al-Wâḥid. Before al-Ḥadath and Zibaṭrah were built, Marj[3] ʿAbd-al-Wâḥid was a pasturing place reserved for the Moslems[4]; but when these two were built. the Moslems could do without the Marj, which was peopled
- ↑ Cf. Le Strange, Baghdâd during the Abbasid Caliphate, p. 130.
- ↑ Lacking in diacritical points.
- ↑ The word means meadow.
- ↑ Ar. ḥima; see Mawardi, p. 324.
