القطيعة

القطيعة

The qati'a in Basra and the Sawad: land the ruler grants a man to reclaim and cultivate — Ziyad would grant a tract, allow two years, then seize it if unimproved ('I execute only what is brought to life'); he was the first to clear the thorn-land and grant folk the villages emptied by the plagues and the salt-flats. Grants ran to thousands of jarib — Hilal ibn Ahwaz's eight thousand, Ibn Umayr's eight thousand — and al-Mansur's surveyors, measuring the Abu Bakra family's hundred-jarib holding at a thousand, left them their hundred and seized the rest.