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The
Al-Alqami
River
is
one
of
the
rivers
for
which
the
holy
city
of
Karbala
became
famous,
and
its
name
was
associated
with
one
of
the
heroes
of
the
immortal
revolution,
Abu
al-Fadl
al-Abbas
(peace
be
upon
him),
so
where
is
this
river
now,
and
where
does
it
come
from?
The
Al-Alqami
River
is
one
of
the
rivers
that
used
to
irrigate
the
lands
of
Karbala
in
the
past,
and
today
it
is
one
of
the
ruins
that
has
disappeared
due
to
the
passage
of
time
on
it.
As
for
the
path
of
this
river
and
where
it
comes
from,
historians
have
gone
to
three
opinions:
The
first
opinion:
Al-Masoudi
mentioned
in
Al-Tanbih
and
Al-Ishrafa
and
the
post-writer
Ibn
Khordadbeh
in
Al-Masalak:
If
the
Euphrates
column
passes
Hit
and
Al-Anbar
(the
second
corresponds
to
the
first
in
the
West
Bank),
then
it
crosses
them,
then
it
is
divided
into
two
parts:
one
of
which
takes
A
little
towards
the
west
called
(al-Alqami)
until
it
reaches
Kufa.
When
he
enters
the
holy
Karbala,
he
passes
to
the
north
of
the
shrine
of
Aoun
and
heads
to
the
south,
until
he
narrates
Ghadiriya
Bani
Asad
and
Ghadiriya
on
its
eastern
bank,
and
along
Ghadiriya
Shariat
Imam
Jaafar
bin
Muhammad
(peace
be
upon
him)
on
the
western
shore
of
Al-Alqami.
And
the
bridge
of
Al-Ghadiriya
connects
it
with
the
Sharia,
then
deviates
to
the
northwest,
dividing
the
eastern
part
of
the
city
of
Karbala
at
the
foot
of
the
shrine
of
Al-Abbas
(peace
be
upon
him),
as
the
following
elderly
women
were
martyred.
If
he
passed
it,
he
turned
to
the
southeast
of
Karbala,
passing
through
the
village
of
Nineveh,
and
there
the
river
(Nineveh
and
Al-Alqami)
connected,
narrating
the
villages
that
followed
them
and
the
village
(Shafih),
and
they
swayed
between
south
at
one
time
and
east
at
another,
until
when
he
reached
Khan
Al-Hammad
-
the
middle
of
the
road
between
Karbala
and
Al-Ghari
-
he
turned
to
the
east
completely.
They
crossed
Shatt
al-Hindiya
in
the
south
of
Bars
and
Harqa
-
and
their
footprint
there
is
visible
and
well-known
-
until
they
crossed
to
the
east
of
Kufa.
The
second
opinion:
Another
group
of
historians
believed
that
the
section
adjacent
to
this
river,
the
kindness
of
Karbala,
was
commissioned
to
dig
it
by
a
man
from
Bani
Alqamah
-
the
belly
of
Tamim
and
then
from
Darim
-
their
grandfather
Alqamah
bin
Zarara
bin
Adas,
so
the
river
was
called
Al-Alqami,
and
that
was
in
the
end
of
the
second
century
AH.
Thus,
Sharif
Muhammad
bin
Ali
al-Tabatabai,
known
as
al-Taqtaqqi,
said
in
his
honorary
history
when
he
mentioned
the
translation
of
the
case
of
Abu
Talib
Mu’ayyad
al-Din
Ibn
al-Alqami,
the
Abbasid
minister
during
the
reign
of
al-Mustasim
and
Hulagu
al-Ilkhani,
that
he
was
named
Ibn
al-Alqami
after
his
grandfather,
Alqama,
who
dug
the
al-Alqami
river.
The
third
opinion:
Some
historians
who
named
the
river
by
the
name
Al-Alqam,
so
Al-Nuwayri
mentioned
in
his
book
-
Buloogh
Al-Arb
fi
Fanoun
Al-Adab
-
that
the
Euphrates
River,
after
passing
through
Al-Anbar,
is
divided
into
two
parts:
a
section
that
takes
a
little
towards
the
south,
and
it
is
called
Al-Alqam,
because
of
the
abundance
of
Al-Alqam
(Handal)
around
its
edges.
The
river
and
the
stalk
with
openness
and
stillness
are
called
every
bitter
tree
(Handal)
