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Umar ibn Hubayra's Survey of the Grants

مساحة عمر بن هبيرة للقطائع

Basra

Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik wrote Umar ibn Hubayra: 'the Commander of the Faithful holds no share in Arab land — go through the grants and take their surplus for me'; Umar walked each qati'a asking its owner how he held it, till one answered 'we inherited them from truthful fathers, and when we die our sons inherit' — the people cried out, and he stopped.

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The Umayyad Period
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Basra

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Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik wrote to Umar ibn Hubayra that the commander of the faithful had no right of "kharasa" in the land of the Arabs, and ordered him to pass over the estates and take their surplus. 1

The survey

Umar went to the estates, asked about them, and then surveyed them. When the owner of a land asked him where he got the right, he answered that they had inherited it from true fathers, and their children would inherit it. 1

Then the people complained of it, and he stopped. 1

The place of the event in the data is Basra, and it needs an additional source.

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Umar ibn Hubayra
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Basra

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Great Mosque of Basra· Qasr Qubadh / the Hajjaj palace at Basra· The Asawira's Settlement at Basra· The Basra Bathhouse Permissions· The Basrans' Cry to Abdallah ibn Ali· Building of al-Mughitha· The Bukharans' Settlement at Basra· The Basra Dar al-Imara Saga

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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