shâm dug out al-Hani wa-l-Mari [canals], thus making the crown-land known as al-Hani-wa-l-Mari tillable land. He founded in it Wâsiṭ ar-Raḳḳah.[1] This same land was confiscated at the beginning of the [Abbasid] dynasty and passed into the hands of umm-Jaʿfar Zubaidah, daughter of Jaʿfar ibn-al-Manṣûr, who built in it the fief house that bears her name, and settled more people in it.
Ar-Raḥbah. There is no trace that ar-Raḥbah, which lies below Ḳarḳîsiya, is an old city, it having been built by Mâlik ibn-Ṭauḳ ibn-ʿAttâb[2] at-Taghlabi in the caliphate of al-Maʾmûn.
Adhramah. Adhramah in Diyâr Rabîʿah was an old village which al-Ḥasan ibn-ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb at-Taghlabi took from its chief and in which he built a castle, thus fortifying it.
Kafartûtha. Kafartûtha[3] was an old fort that was occupied by the offspring of abu-Rimthah, who made a town of it and foritfied it.
Diyâr Rabîʿah and al-Barrîyah. Muʿâfa ibn-Ṭâʾûs from his father:—The latter said, "I asked certain sheikhs regarding the tithes of Balad and Diyâr Rabîʿah and al-Barrîyah[4] and was told that they were the tithes of lands held by the Arabs when they embraced Islâm, or reclaimed by them from waste lands unpossessed by any one or given up by the Christians, and which have consequently become waste and covered with brushwood. These lands were given to the Arabs as fiefs."
ʿAin ar-Rûmîyah. Abu-ʿAffân ar-Raḳḳi from certain sheikhs of the writers of ar-Raḳḳah and others:—ʿAin ar-
