haleyfe

Updated: May 18, 2025

About five miles distant from Medina was a station of the Hadj, called Zy'l Haleyfe, situated on the banks of Wady Akyk, with a small castle and a birket, which was rebuilt in A.H. 861.

John Lewis Burckhardt - Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred