رأس العين

رأس العين

Ra's al-Ayn — that is Ayn al-Warda — of the Jazira cities on the Khabur; it resisted Iyad ibn Ghanm, and Umayr ibn Sa'd took it by force after bitter fighting under mangonels, then compounded with its people — the land theirs, four dinars' jizya on each head, no women or children taken — crying 'no harm, to me, to me' as their aman; a body of them departed and the Muslims worked and sowed their fields by land-grant.