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The most important and oldest water network in the holy city of Mecca. It has been supplying pilgrims, visitors, Umrah performers, and the people of Mecca with water for a period of up to 1,200 years, since the wife of the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid ordered its construction in the year 194 AH. Its traces are still present today.
The course of Ain Zubaydah extends from Mount Kara to Makkah Al-Mukarramah. It was a fresh spring with abundant water. It was made by Zubaydah bint Jaafar Al-Mansur, the wife of the Abbasid Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, around the year 195 AH. She ordered the “Ain Wadi Numan” to be drawn to Arafat. It is water that springs from the bottom of Mount Kara in the land of Taif, to a place called “Al-Awjar” in Wadi Numan. From there, the water runs in ground channels to Arafat, reaching Mount Al-Rahmah, where the channel runs around the perimeter of Mount Al-Rahmah. She made branches from it to the pools in the land of Arafat for the pilgrims to drink from. She also prepared special places for that in the form of beautiful stone faucets, for the pilgrims to drink from with ease and simplicity. Its length exceeds (30 km) and includes many “beads” and their number is 132 beads. It begins at bead number (1) in Wadi Numan and heads towards Makkah Al-Mukarramah, to appear in Arafat around Mount Al-Rahmah in its first appearance southeast of Arafat, then heads To pass through the valley of Arna and from there to the Qataniyyah area west of the valley of Arna, then on the southern and western slopes of the mountains of the region between Arafat and Muzdalifah, then the canal appears again in the Aziziyah district of Mecca in several places, and the last part of it appears after King Khalid Bridge, and after that place the canals were removed and buildings were built in their place, and the spring contains in addition to the beads and canals administrative buildings and tanks for collecting water and ponds and other things
Given its importance, during the reign of the founder, King Abdulaziz, a special department was established to manage the spring. It was called "Ain Zubaydah", with complete supervision over the spring and its wells and its restoration. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Dahlawi, by order of King Abdulaziz, undertook the construction of Ain Zubaydah for several years. Interest in Ain Zubaydah increased, and two royal decrees were issued through which the lands located on both sides of the asphalt road to Ain Zubaydah were granted to the spring endowment. These decrees included: registering the government lands through which the spring's pipes passed to benefit from them in the maintenance and management of the project; registering these lands for the spring to benefit from them as a fixed income for spending; and registering the government-owned lands of the Kadi revenues under the name Ain Zubaydah and Ain Al-Azizia in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, as the condition of the founder, may God have mercy on her, was to provide water to Makkah.