NEHR E ZUBAIDA ( River Zubaida)

 NEHR E ZUBAIDA ( River Zubaida)

Zubaida was the wife of Abbasid caliph Haroon Al rashid (809 AD) . she was a very pious woman. once she came as a pilgrim of haj at mecca. she found there a difficulty of availability of water for pilgrims. she then thought to solve that problem. When she was being married to Haroon Al rashid , she demanded a digging of canal from baghdad to mecca in haq mehr. Haroon accepted it. then a canal was dug from 35 km of mecca from wadi hunain  and another canal  was dug from jawwal kura from wadi nauman . There  was a pond 12 km from maidan e arafat named behr e zubaida in which rain water was being collected, then a canal was also dug from there into the river . it took 1700000 dinar in expenditure. when this record of expenditure was brought to zubaida , she threw  it in river farat and said " I left this expenditure for youm e qayamat"