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 Rûmîyah together with its spring belonged to al-Walîd ibn-ʿUḳbah ibn-abi-Muʿaiṭ who gave it to abu-Zubaid aṭ-Ṭâʾi from whom it passed to abu-l-'Abbâs the "Commander of the Believers." Abu-l-ʿAbbâs gave it as fief to Maimûn ibn-Ḥamzah, the freedman of ʿAli ibn-ʿAbdallâh ibn-ʿAbbâs, from whose heirs ar-Rashîd bought it. It lies in the district of ar-Raḳḳah.

. Ghâbat ibn-Hubairah [the forest of ibn-Hubairah] was first given as fief to ibn-Hubairah, but later confiscated and assigned as fief to Bishr ibn-Maimûn, the builder of aṭ-Ṭâḳât [archways or arcades] at Baghdâdh in the vicinity of Bâb ash-Shâm [the Syrian gate]. This Ghâbat was later bought by ar-Rashîd. It lies in the province of Sarûj.

. The fief which was given by Hishâm to his daughter, ʿÂʾishah, at Râskîfa and which bore her name was also confiscated.

. ʿAbd-al-Malik and Hishâm owned a village called Salaʿûs and half of another called Kafarjadda which lay in the province of ar-Ruha.

. In Ḥarrân, al-Ghamr ibn-Yazîd owned Tall ʿAfraʾ, the land of Tall Madhâba, and Arẖ al-Muṣalla [place of prayer], together with the confiscated lands and the workshops in Rabaḍ Ḥarrân.

. Before al-Ḥadath and Zibaṭrah were built, Marj ʿAbd-al-Wâḥid was a pasturing place reserved for the Moslems ; but when these two were built. the Moslems could do without the Marj, which was peopled