درب زبيدة — طريق الحج من الكوفة إلى مكة

درب زبيدة — طريق الحج من الكوفة إلى مكة

The pilgrim road from Kufa to Mecca as registered by Qudama ibn Ja'far in the barid chapter — its relay stations, mileages and each halt's cisterns, wells and minbars: from Madinat al-Salam to Kufa, al-Qadisiyya and al-Udhayb (the frontier picket between Arabs and Persians with its twin walls), then al-Maghitha, al-Qar'a, Waqisa, al-Aqaba, al-Qa', populous Zubala, al-Shiquq, Qabr al-Abbadi, al-Tha'labiyya, walled al-Khuzaymiyya with its minbar and hammam (once called Zarud, its sand red), al-Ajfar, Fayd with the governor's lodge and canal and minbar, Tawz, al-Hajir, Ma'dan al-Nuqra, al-Rabadha with abundant water, Ma'dan Bani Sulaym, and on through the Hijaz road to Mecca ¹.