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In 166 AH al-Mahdi moved to the Palace of Peace and ordered the postal service set up from the Prophet's city, from Yemen and from Mecca to the capital, with mules and camels. Al-Suyuti, quoting al-Dhahabi, says that this was the first postal service made from the Hijaz to Iraq. ²

The conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived and approximate. The place in the event data is Baghdad.

The Aman of Samalu and its People's Transfer to Baghdad

In al-Baladhuri: al-Mahdi sent his son Harun al-Rashid raiding in year 163 and he besieged the people of Damalu — which common speech calls Samalu — and they asked his aman, ten householders among them the qummis, which he granted on the condition that they not be separated, so they were settled in Baghdad at the Shammasiyya gate and named their quarter Samalu, which it is still known as; others say they came down on al-Mahdi's ruling — he spared them, gathered them at that spot and ordered it named Samalu; al-Rashid had those remaining in the fortress cried and sold, and an Abyssinian who used to curse al-Rashid and the Muslims was taken and crucified on one of its towers.

إقامة البريد من الحجاز إلى العراق

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The Aman of Samalu and its People's Transfer to Baghdad