Note 446 — Chapter VII · THE DATE OF UKHAIḌIR
Reading edition
Ya’qubi, ed. de Goeje, p. 311. Dr. Moritz calls my attention to a passage in Murudj al-Dhahab of Mas’ûdi (ed. Barbier de Meynard), vol. viii, p. 294, in which it is related that the khalif Rashid built wells, cisterns, and castles along the Mekkah road. These castles can, however, have been nothing but guard-houses.