ABSTRACT
Medina: Waki:', I, 118, 254. 17) Cf., the story in Baladhurl, Ansiib al-ashriif ed. M. Schloessinger and M. J.
Kister Gerusalem, 1971), IV a, 111.
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18) Waki-<, II, 80. In al-Man~ur's period a certain Siwar b. 'Abd Allah was appointed over qar/.ii), faliit and abdiith in Ba~ra; in al-Mahdi' s period there was separate appointment for qarj.ii) and abdiith (Wakl' II, 122); cf. Cl. Cahen, "Al)dath" EF
19) Ibn I:Ianbal, Musnad (Bulaq, 1895), IV, 105; Ibn al-Jawzl, Kitiib al-qu~~ii~ wa)l-mudhakkir!n, ed. and tr. Merlin L. Swartz (Beirut, 1971) pp. 21, 144 (§ 30, § 334).
