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THE ORIGINS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE

ing thereby that he who takes refuge in it is safe from his enemy.

Ar-Raiya spring. Ar-Raiya was a spring from which the aṣ-Ṣaʿfûḳah, as well as al-Khuyaibah and al-Khiḍrimah, got their drinking water, aṣ-Ṣaʿfûḳah[1] being a crown-land thus called after one of the agents over it, whose name was Saʿfûḳ.

  1. Bakri, p. 607.