`Zubaydah well` splits mountains to irrigate pilgrims for more than 1,200 years

Weather of Arabia - Bir Zubaydah is located on the road between Mecca and Baghdad, and it is historically classified as the first Islamic endowment in history, and historians have recorded it as the most valuable Islamic endowment in the last thousand years.

Who ordered to build it?

She was ordered to build it by the wife of Harun al-Rashid, the nation of al-Aziz bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur, the Hashemite Abbasid, nicknamed Zubaydah, when she felt the suffering of pilgrims, pilgrims and the hardship they face due to the scarcity of water, in the year 800 AH, while Mrs. Zubaida was on the way to Hajj, and she faced a great difficulty because of the difficulty The road and its roughness and water scarcity.

She vowed that pilgrims would no longer suffer thirst while on the way to Hajj. So I brought specialists in road engineering and drilling wells from all countries of Islam, especially from Egypt and the Levant.

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And I instructed them to dig a spring of water to save pilgrims and people from water scarcity, and their response was that it was impossible to implement the project; Because of the high mountains and roads, I ordered them to build mountains, whatever the costs, even if it cost the ax to strike a gold coin.

Zubaida well construction stages

Indeed, the workers began digging wells, breaking mountains, breaking up rocks, and work progressed on the project, and a huge network of water tanks, known as "Zubaida Ponds", was built to collect water in a smart way.

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Each well was placed in a pond beneath a small valley, in which rainwater is collected in it, starting from Kufa, then Al-Qassim and Hail, then the road tends to the southwest end of the desert to Medina and Makkah, so the traveler from Baghdad does not need to carry a cup with him Water.

To imagine the value and magnitude of the project, it is necessary to know that Mrs. Zubaydah asked the experts to dig a running river, connected to the rain, as she ordered to build a water channel in the mountains.

It also made sub-channel openings while the canal was passing through the mountains, erected in places where it was possible to catch torrential water; To be tributaries, this water increases the volume of water drawn to Makkah Al-Mukarramah through the main canal.

Ein Wadi Numan was designated to Arafa, which originates from the tail of the mountain of Al-Kara surrounding the Taif, and ordered that the water be drawn into a canal to a place called auger in Wadi Numan, and from it to the land of Arafat.

In order for the water to reach all the pilgrims on the Mount Arafat, I ordered that the canal be turned over the Mount of Mercy, and that it should make it branches to the ponds in the land of Arafa; To make pilgrims drink on the day of Arafa.

The channel also extended from the land of Arafat to the back of the mountain, to an area called (the Dark), and from there you reach Muzdalifah, then to the mountain behind Khalaf Mina, then it flows into a great well paved with very large stones, called "Zubaydah well".

Zubaida well in the Saudi era

Established during the reign of the founder King Abdulaziz - may God rest his soul - a department with jurisdiction over a department; This department is fully supervising and restoring Al Ain and its wells.

Two high orders were issued to grant lands located on both sides of the asphalt road to Ain Zubaydah, to stop the eye, and the two decisions included:

• Registering government lands through which well pipes have been used for use in the maintenance and management of the project.
• Recording these lands to Al Ain to benefit from them as a fixed income to be spent on

Research and studies are still ongoing for the advancement of Ain Zubaydah, and the functions of Ain Zubaydah were transferred to the General Authority of Endowments in accordance with Cabinet Resolution No. 319 of 9/13/1431 H. The General Authority of Endowments is currently working in coordination with the relevant authorities to preserve Ain Zubaydah and its remaining effects, as well as to preserve The remaining people are there, and there is coordination with King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah to prepare a comprehensive study on Ain Zubaydah.