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THE ORIGINS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE

dâʾin under Saʿd and the conquest of Jalûlâʾ; after which they returned to al-Kûfah where they settled with the Moslems.

Places of interest and the persons after whom they are named.[1] The Jabbânat [cemetery] as-Sabîʿ, after a son of as-Sabîʿ ibn-Sabuʿ ibn-Ṣaʿb al-Hamdâni.

The Ṣaḥrâ [desert] Uthair,[2] after Uthair of the banu-Asad.

The Dukkân [shop] ʿAbd-al-Ḥamîd, after ʿAbd-al-Ḥamîd ibn-ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmân ibn-Zaid ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb, the ʿâmil of ʿUmar ibn-ʿAbd-al-ʿAzîz over al-Kûfah.

The Saḥrâ bani-Ḳirâr after the banu-Ḳirâr ibn-Thaʿlabah. … ibn-Nizâr.

Dâr ar-Rûmîyîn was a dunghill where the inhabitants of al-Kûfah cast their rubbish and which was taken as fief from Yazîd ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik by ʿAnbasah ibn-Saʿîd ibn-al-Âṣi, who removed the soil in it for 150,000 dirhams.

The Sûḳ [market] Yûsuf in al-Ḥîrah, after Yûsuf ibn-ʿUmar … ath-Thaḳafi.

Ḥammâm [bath] Aʿyan, after Aʿyan, a freedman of Saʿd ibn-abi-Waḳḳâṣ.

Bîʿat [church] bani-Mâzin in al-Ḥîrah, after some of al-Azd of Ghassân.

Ḥammâm ʿUmar, after ʿUmar ibn-Saʿd ibn-abi-Waḳḳâṣ.

Shahârsûj Bajîlah in al-Kûfah, after the banu-Bajlah.[3]

Jabbânat ʿArzam, after a certain ʿArzam, who used to shake in it milk in a skin [so that its butter might come forth].

Jabbânat Bishr, after Bishr ibn-Rabîʿah … ibn-Ḳumair al-Khuthʿami.

Zurârah, after Zurârah ibn-Yazîd … ibn-Ṣaʿṣaʿah.

  1. The following list is a shortened form of the original.
  2. Dhahabi, pp. 5–6.
  3. Yâḳût, vol. iii, p. 338; Hamadhâni, p. 182; Marâṣid, vol. ii, p. 135.