بناء مدينة واسط

بناء مدينة واسط

83 ھ

Al-Tabari reports that al-Hajjaj laid out the city of Wasit in 83, after a monk had told him that a mosque would be built on that spot ¹. The cited work states that al-Hajjaj laid out Wasit in the land of Kaskar, began building it in 83 AH and finished in 86 AH with the approval of Abd al-Malik, and that the kharaj of all Iraq was spent on it for five years; it contained the congregational mosque, the governor's residence and the markets. ²