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Maḳna and the valley of al-Abjaẓ—the latter being known in its lower part as al-ʻEfâl. From these hills the šeʻibân of al-Mṛejzel run to Maḳna, penetrating the table-land of al-Fḥejṯât, al-Ḥaraǧ, and al-Mabʻûḳ, in which rises the spring of al-Amṛar;
Fig. 48—A sepulcher, Madian. while the springs of ʻEjâne and al-Far-
Fig. 48—A sepulcher, Madian. while the springs of ʻEjâne and al-Far-
Jewess in the settlement of Maḳna, assigning to her sixty of the hundred grass plots. These plots were taken away from the heirs of the Jewess only toward the close of the rule of the Omayyads, but the heirs of ʻUbajd did not obtain them. The charter was said to have been lost, and the one which was exhibited in the settlement of Maḳna at the end of the ninth century and which was intended for the Beni Ḥubejba and the inhabitants of Maḳna, was said to be an undoubted forgery.
Ibn Ḥaǧar (died 1449 A. D.), Iṣâba (ʻAbdalḥaj), Vol. 2, p. 1070, does not believe the tale about ʻUbajd’s horse.Jâḳût, Muʻǧam (Wüstenfeld), Vol. 4, p. 610, writes that Maḳna is situated not far from Ajla.