Ghaylan ibn Kharasha al-Dabbi

Ghaylan ibn Kharasha al-Dabbi, who was given charge by Abd Allah ibn Amir of digging the river of Umm Abd Allah Dajaja. Al-Baladhuri reports the words of Haritha ibn Badr al-Ghudani to Ibn Amir when he rode beside him: "I have not seen a river of greater blessing than this one; the weak draw water from it at their house doors." Then he said to Ziyad when he rode beside him: "I have never seen a worse river than this one; their children drown in it." Some people report that the speaker was Ghaylan himself. ¹