Wâdi Šarma, the middle part of which is called al-Ṛarr and the upper part Umm Ḳarâdi, starts near the well of an-Naʻemi, between as-Sîḳ and Ornub. Into it, on the right-hand side, run the šeʻibân of: Umm Hašîm; ʻAjn Ḳîr; Bîr az-Zerb; Abu Turbân; al-Ḥṭân; ʻAjn abu Ḥrêra; ʻAnṣûrijje, rising near the ruins of al-Merw; Umm as-Sarâbîṭ; and al-Mellâḥ. On the left it receives the šeʻibân of: Abu Ḥamâṭa; ʻAlaṣ with al-Medâʻîḳ; Ornub with al-Maṭḥane, al-Ḫaṭijje, and Ǧarâǧra; an-Naḫala; Dṛejm; Abu Taḳar; al-Ḫrâše; and Ẓeḥijje with Umm Hešîm.
Wâdi Terîm begins under the name of al-Ḫambara on the eastern uplands behind the chain of granite mountains to the north of the Tmarr range. At first it trends toward the west-northwest, but near the granite chain it swings off to the southwest and runs through the deep gap of al-Malḥaǧa, between the mountains of Ornub and an-Naʻejẓa, to the coast lowland, where it is called al-Kaḥala; it then waters the oasis of Terîm, from which it receives its name, and comes to an end at the seashore near some ruins which bear the same name. In the uplands it is joined on the right by the šeʻibân of: Abu-l-Ḳawâṣîm; Retâme; and Zwejbt aṣ-Ṣḳûr, the last-named being joined by the šeʻibân of Obejjeẓ abu Zukra and Obejjeẓ aṭ-Ṭarîk. Lower down on the right Wâdi Terîm is joined by: al-Aǧzaʻ, running from the well of the same name; al-Wejmijje, which rises on the western slope of Mount Râẓi near the well of Ḏḳêṭ; Ḫarḫûra, at the upper end of which flows the spring of aẓ-Ẓabʻijje; Ammu-d-Dûd, with the well of the same name; and Abu Ḏêl, which extends from the hills of al-Mufa’. Wâdi Terîm is joined on the left by al-Ḳwêra, al-Frâš, and aṯ-Ṯawar, as well as by the long šeʻîb of Ṣadr, which begins under the name of aṣ-Ṣwêwîn at the foot of the mountains of ar-Rawjân and Ḫrejṭat ammu Rǧûm. On the right hand Ṣadr receives only the šeʻibân of ʻAzâza, through which a road leads to the pass Naḳb al-Bdejje, and an-Namra; but on the left there merge into it: aṣ-Ṣafra, Ajlân, Umm Leben, al-Mrajfeḳ, Naḳwa, Turbân, al-Wêwi, Umm Žaʻžaʻ, Zunnâra, Umm ʻAḳab, an-Naḫala, Umm Sijâle, and Umm Ṛarejmîn.[1]
Wâdi aṣ-Ṣurr runs from the defile Naḳb al-Ḫrejṭa, between the mountains of Ḫrejṭat ammu Rǧûm and al-Meljân, where the spring of al-Hâma has its source. On the right it is joined by the šeʻibân of: al-Kšâbrijje, into which ad-Dâra and al-Ǧidde merge; and by the šeʻibân of aḏ-Ḏbejjeb, al-Ḳtajfe, al-Ḳwêmra, Ammu Mzêrîḳât, and Ammu Skâka; on the left by al-Meljân, Umm Ḫârǧa (with Abu-ṭ-Ṭanâẓeb), al-Makḥûl, al-Muṣâb, and Abu Ḥawâwîṭ.
Wâdi al-Ṛâl rises on the northwestern slope of Mount aš-Šâr near the springs of al-Mlêḥ and al-Bdejje and, running in a south-easterly direction, separates the high ridge of aš-Šâr from the lower cone of al-Ḳwâjem. After this wâdi is joined by the šeʻîb of Umm Ǧirma, which comes from Mount al-Ṛâl, it swings off to the west.
Wâdi ad-Dâma begins in the pass Naḳb al-Ḳerâḳer, between the mountains of aš-Širṯ and al-Muḫteleṣ, near the springs of ad-Difla and al-Lowza. It extends through the plain of ar-Raḥaba and is joined on the- ↑ Jâḳût, Muʻǧam (Wüstenfeld), Vol. 1. p. 846; Vol. 2, p. 727; and al-Bekri, Muʻǧam (Wüstenfeld), p. 196, assert that Ibn as-Sikkît places the valley of Tirjam close to Madjan.—As according to al-Bekri, loc. cit., the poet Kuṯejjer also was acquainted with the form Terîm, we may infer that Ibn as-Sikkît identifies the oasis of Terîm with the place called Tirjam situated not far from Madjan.Jâḳût, op. cit., Vol. 3, p. 270, locates the place called Šarâwa near Tirjam at Madjan.
