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 "id": "event/digging-of-nahr-ibn-umar",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "digging-of-nahr-ibn-umar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "حفر نهر ابن عمر",
  "en": "Digging of Nahr Ibn Umar"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لما قدم عبد الله بن عمر بن عبد العزيز عاملاً على الأعمال من قبل يزيد بن الوليد أتاه أهل البصرة فشكوا إليه ملوحة مائهم وحملوا إليه قارورتين في إحداهما ماء من ماء البصرة وفي الأخرى ماء من ماء البطيحة فرأى بينهما فصلاً فقالوا إنك إن حفرت لنا نهراً شربنا من هذا العذب فكتب بذلك إلى يزيد فكتب إليه يزيد إن بلغت نفقة هذا النهر خراج العراق ما كان في أيدينا فأنفقه عليه فحفر النهر الذي يعرف بنهر ابن عمر وقال رجل في مجلس ابن عمر والله إني أحسب نفقة هذا النهر تبلغ ثلاثمائة ألف أو أكثر فقال ابن عمر لو بلغت لخراج العراق لأنفقته عليه.",
  "en": "Abdallah ibn Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Yazid ibn al-Walid's governor, received the Basrans with two flasks — Basra water and batiha water — and saw the difference: 'dig us a canal and we drink this sweet'. He wrote Yazid, who answered 'if the canal's cost reaches Iraq's kharaj, spend what we hold on it'; Nahr Ibn Umar was dug, and when a man guessed the cost at three hundred thousand, Ibn Umar said 'were it Iraq's whole kharaj, I would spend it'."
 },
 "stub": false,
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  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "extraction_flow": "Apple Vision OCR -> manual extraction"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يروي البلاذري أن عبد الله بن عمر بن عبد العزيز، عامل يزيد بن الوليد، شكا إليه أهل [[place/basra|البصرة]] ملوحة مائهم، فحُفر النهر المعروف بنهر ابن عمر. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الشكوى والإذن",
     "markdown": "حمل أهل البصرة إليه قارورتين، في إحداهما ماء البصرة وفي الأخرى ماء البطيحة، فرأى بينهما فرقاً. وقالوا إنه إن حفر لهم نهراً شربوا من العذب. فكتب إلى يزيد، فأجابه أنه إن بلغت نفقة النهر خراج العراق فليُنفقه عليه. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النفقة",
     "markdown": "قال رجل في مجلس ابن عمر إنه يحسب النفقة تبلغ ثلاثمائة ألف أو أكثر. فقال ابن عمر إنها لو بلغت خراج العراق لأنفقه. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/digging-of-nahr-ibn-umar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Baladhuri reports that Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, the governor of Yazid ibn al-Walid, was complained to by the people of [[place/basra|Basra]] about the brackishness of their water, so the canal known as the Canal of Ibn Umar was dug. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The complaint and the permission",
     "markdown": "The people of Basra brought him two flasks, in one of which was Basra's water and in the other the water of al-Bataiha, and he saw a difference between them. They said that if he dug them a canal they would drink fresh water. He wrote to Yazid, who replied that if the cost of the canal reached the land tax of Iraq he should spend it on it. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The cost",
     "markdown": "A man said in the assembly of Ibn Umar that he reckoned the cost would reach three hundred thousand or more. Ibn Umar said that even if it reached the land tax of Iraq, he would spend it. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/digging-of-nahr-ibn-umar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/basra",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "building/great-mosque-of-basra",
  "building/qasr-qubadh-basra",
  "event/asawira-basra-settlement",
  "event/basra-bathhouse-permissions",
  "event/basra-crowd-abdallah-ibn-ali",
  "event/building-of-al-mughitha",
  "event/bukhara-settlers-basra",
  "event/dar-al-imara-saga"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}