al-Muhammadiyya
المحمدية
The city al-Mahdi built at Rayy in 158 AH, moated and girded with a fired-brick suburb, which Rayy's people then called the inner city versus the outer walled town; Hisn al-Zaynabi fell inside it and the Lahirish family settled after its building; the old Rayy, called Arazi in Jahiliyya and said to have been swallowed, lay six farsakhs off and gave Rayy its name.
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al-Muhammadiyya: a city that al-Mahdi built at al-Rayy in the year 158 AH, and surrounded with a trench. He made for it a suburb (faṣīl) built of fired brick, and named it al-Muhammadiyya. The people of al-Rayy came to call the inner city and its suburb the inner city and the outer city. 1
Its surroundings
The fortress of al-Zunbadi lies within it, and after it was built the family of Lahrish settled there. The old al-Rayy was called Araziy in the pre-Islamic period. It is said that it was swallowed by the earth; it lies six farsakhs from al-Muhammadiyya, and al-Rayy is named after it. 1
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Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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