Note 144 — HASAN OF BASSORAH.[5] (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Himà,” a word often occurring in Arab poetry, domain, a pasture or watered land forcibly kept as far as a dog’s bark would sound by some masterful chief like “King Kulayb.” (See vol. ii. 77). This tenure was forbidden by Mohammed except for Allah and the Apostle (i.e. himself). Lane translates it “asylum.”