al-ʿÂṣi informing him of the straits in which the inhabitants of al-Madînah were, and ordering him to transport by sea to al-Madînah all the food he had collected as kharâj. Accordingly, the food with the oil was carried there; and when it reached al-Jâr,[1] it was received by Saʿd al-Jâr.[2] Later it was kept in a special house at al-Madînah and distributed among the Moslems by measure. At the time of the first insurrection, the supply was cut off. In the days of Muʿâwiyah and Yazîd, it was again carried to al-Madînah. Then it was cut off until the time of ʿAbd-al-Malik ibn-Marwân, after which it was carried until the caliphate of abu-Jaʿfar, or a little previous to that.
Bakr ibn-al-Haitham from Yazîd ibn-abi-Ḥabib:—After the first peace was made, the tax-payers in Egypt made new terms in the caliphate of ʿUmar, stipulating that instead of the wheat, oil, honey and vinegar they offered, they would pay two dînârs in addition to the other two dînârs. Each one thus was bound to pay four dînârs; and they consented to that and preferred it.
ʿAin Shams, al-Faiyûm and other places reduced. Abu-Aiyûb ar-Raḳḳi from al-Jaishâni:—The latter said, "I heard it stated by a number of those who witnessed the conquest of Egypt that when ʿAmr ibn-al-ʿÂṣi reduced al-Fusṭâṭ, he despatched to ʿAin Shams[3] ʿAbdallâh ibn-Ḥudhâfah as-Sahmi, who took possession of its land and made terms with the inhabitants of its villages similar to those of al-Fusṭâṭ. Likewise ʿAmr despatched Khârijah ibn-Ḥudhâfah al-ʿAdawi to al-Faiyûm,[4] al-Ushmûnain, Ikh-
- ↑ Hamdâni, Ṣifat Jazîrat al-ʿArab, p. 47, line 17 (ed. Müller).
- ↑ Saʿd al-Jâri mentioned in Dhahabi, al-Mushtabih, p. 81; cf. ibn-Saʿd, vol. iii1, p. 240; Yâḳût, vol. ii. p. 6.
- ↑ Heliopolis; confused by some historians with Bâb Alyûnah (Babylon); Butler, p. 212, note.
- ↑ Maḳrîzi, vol. i, pp. 402–403.
