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 According to al-Waḍîn, after that, men from all quarters moved to the coast cities.

. Al-ʿAbbâs ibn-Hishâm al-Kalbi from Jaʿfar ibn-Kilâb al-Kilâbi:—ʿAlḳamah ibn-ʿUlâthah ibn-ʿAuf ibn-al-Aḥwaṣ ibn-Jaʿfar ibn-Kilâb was assigned by ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb to the governorship of Ḥaurân and he was made responsible to Muʿâwiyah. This position he held until his death. Before his death he heard that al-Ḥuṭaiʾah-l-ʿAbsi was coming to visit him; so ʿAlḳamah bequeathed to him in his will a share equal to one of his sons' shares. Hence the poem of al-Ḥuṭaiʿah:

" Between me and becoming rich had I only reached thee, when thou

wert still living there would have been an interval of only a few nights."

. I was told by certain learned men. among whom was a neighbor of Hishâm ibn-ʿAmmâr that abu-Sufyân ibn-Ḥarb possessed in the pre-Islamic period, in which he carried on trade with Syria, a village in al-Balḳâʾ called Ḳubbash. This village passed into the possession of Muʿâwiyah and his son, and at the beginning of the [Abbasid] dynasty, it was confiscated and possessed by certain sons of al-Mahdi, the "Commander of the Believers." Then it passed into the hands of certain oil-sellers of al-Kûfah known as the banu-Nuʿaim.

. ʿAbbâs ibn-Hishâm from his grandfather:—Once came Tamîm ibn-Aus of the banu-ad-Dâr ibn-Hâniʾ ibn-Ḥabîb of [the tribe of] Lakhm, surnamed abu-Ruḳaiyah, with his brother Nuʿaim ibn-Aus, to the Prophet who gave them as fief Ḥibra, Bait-ʿAinûn and Masjid Ibrâhim, and to that end he wrote