Saḥrâʾ umm-Salamah. The umm-Salamah desert was so called after umm-Salamah, daughter of Yaʿḳûb ibn-Salamah … ibn-Makhzûm and the wife of abu-l-ʿAbbâs.
Al-Kûfah moat. I was told by abu-Masʿûd that al-Manṣûr held the people of al-Kûfah responsible for its moat and that he imposed on every one of them forty dirhams to meet its expenses, he being displeased with them on account of their tendencies toward the Ṭâlibite party and their spreading false news regarding the sulṭân [the chief authority].
The inhabitants of al-Kûfah commended. Al-Ḥusain ibn-al-Aswad from ʿÂmir:—ʿUmar writing to the people of al-Kûfah called them "the head of the Arabs."
Al-Ḥusain from Nâfiʿ ibn-Jubair ibn-Muṭʿim:—ʿUmar said, "In al-Kûfah are the most distinguished men."
Al-Ḥusain and Ibrâhîm ibn-Muslim al-Khawârizmi from ash-Shaʿbi:—ʿUmar in addressing the people of al-Kûfah wrote, "To the head of Islâm."
Al-Ḥusain ibn-al-Aswad from Shamir ibn-ʿAṭîyah:—ʿUmar said regarding the people of al-Kûfah, "They are the lance of Allah, the treasure of the faith, the cranium of the Arabs, who protect their own frontier forts and reinforce other Arabs."
Abu-Naṣr at-Tammâr from Salmân:—The latter said:—"Al-Kûfah is the dome of Islâm. There will be a time in which every believer will either be in it or will have his heart set upon it."
