Sawafi (the crown lands of the Sawad)

الصوافي

Sawafi in al-Baladhuri is what Umar set apart from the Sawad's land for the Muslims — neither left in its holders' hands nor laid under the customary kharaj: Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Hurra counts ten heads from his father — land of those killed in the war, of those who fled, all Khusraw's land and all his family's, every water-sink, every monastery of Yazid, every safiyya Khusraw had appropriated, and the Jalandima land — reaching seven million dirhams' revenue and remaining so until the Jamajim in al-Hajjaj's days, when the register burned and each people took what adjoined them; from these Uthman made Iraq's first land-grants, as Musa ibn Talha says.