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 . Muʿâwiyah ibn-abi-Sufyân transplanted to Antioch in the year 42 some Persians and others from Baʿlabakk, Ḥimṣ, al-Baṣrah and al-Kûfah. One of those transplanted was Muslim ibn-ʿAbdallâh, the grandfather of ʿAbdallâh ibn-Ḥabîb ibn-an-Nuʿmân ibn-Muslim al-Anṭâki. This Muslim was killed at one of the gates of Antioch which is known to-day as Bâb Muslim. His death was brought about when the Greeks started from the coast and set up their camp against Antioch and one of the "uncircumcised" threw a stone on Muslim, who was then on the city wall, and killed him.

. According to a tradition communicated to me by certain sheikhs from Antioch, among whom was ibn-Burd al-Faḳîh, al-Walîd ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik gave as fief to some of the troops of Antioch the land of Seleucia [Ar. Salûḳîyah] lying at the sea-coast. Moreover, he fixed the tax on a filthur (i. e., jarîb) one dînâr and one modius of wheat. They cultivated the land; and the terms were carried into effect. He also built the fort of Seleucia.

. The land of Baghrâs [Pagrae] belonged to Maslamah ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik who gave it as an unalienable legacy to be used in the cause of righteousness. The same man owned ʿAin as-Sallaur with its lake and al-Iskandarîyah [Alexandria] which latter passed as fief into the hands of Rajâʾ, a freedman of al-Mahdi, to be inherited by his [al-Mahdi] sons Manṣûr and Ibrâhîm, later to Ibrâhîm ibn-Saʿîd al-Jauhari, then by purchase to Aḥmad ibn-abi-Duwâd al-Iyâdi, and lastly to al-Mutawakkil, "the Commander of the Believers."