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

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