And the accumulation of wealth over the days, which has diminished in our time. The city of Al-Mahdiyyah was a port and an opportunity for Al-Ghirwan. Al-Mahdi Ubayd Allah established it and named it this name. It is in the description of the ship that enters it, from Saghfas to Ratafat Al-Ghirwan, then enters it from the city of Rada. The city of Al-Mahdiyyah is two stages from the city of Al-Ghirwan. In the past, many travelers used to go there, and goods were brought to it from all the countries. Rains, goods, and trade were beneficial there, and the profits were abundant and returned to them. It has beautiful, clean, and well-maintained buildings, homes, and courtyards. Its dwellings are good, and its baths are grand. It has many caravanserais. It is beautiful in itself, inside and out, and pleasing to the eye. Its people are handsome, and they make fine, delicate clothes attributed to it, which are exported. Merchants take it to all horizons at all times, and we are unable to make its like elsewhere. Its climate is good, and its water comes from springs, but its wells are not sweet. Al-Mahdiyyah is surrounded by a beautiful wall built of stone, and it has two iron gates, one overlapping the other without wood. It is not known in the inhabited world to have anything like it, in its beauty and its unique craftsmanship. It has no gardens or orchards, and no date palms. Fruits are only brought to it from Dastur Al-Munastir, and they are displayed on the ship. Al-Munastir has three palaces where devout people reside. The Arabs do not settle in any of their trees or their buildings. In this place, meaning Al-Munastir, are the cities of the city dwellers. They bury their dead there when they visit, and then they return to their countries.