Falja
Falja
A manzil on the Basra Hajj road in Abu Ishaq al-Harbi’s list: after Jadilah, before al-Dathina. It is not a Kufa / Darb Zubaydah station. The pin is approximate; a Dahna-point identification is not settled.
Plan your visit
Practical information verified separately from the historical record.
Before you go: Check with the operator or a local guide before departure; field access details have not yet been verified.
Why visit?
Keeps the Basra road apart from Darb Zubaydah, and refuses Dahna engineering pinned to an unfixed name.
Falja is a manzil on the Basra–Makkah road, not on the Kufa road called Darb Zubaydah. Abu Ishaq al-Harbi lists it after Jadilah (32 miles) and before al-Dathina (then Quba, Marran, al-Shubayka, Wajra, Dhat Irq). That is the warrant for the name. The previous card’s merger of the two roads does not stand.
The Basra road crosses Najd; one branch meets the Kufa road at al-Nuqra, but the main Makkah line runs Rama–Takhfa–Dariyya–Jadilah–Falja. The Heritage Commission records a «Falja cistern» in the Afif district of Riyadh: a candidate, not proof that the present pin (north-east Qassim, on the Dahna) is Harbi’s manzil. The sequence after Dariyya and Jadilah pulls the place south toward Afif/Marran, not onto the eastern Dahna. The coordinate stays approximate. Dual kilometre-long walls and a «narrowest Dahna» crossing, unpublished under this name, are unsupported.
No neighbouring cistern is borrowed. The card is a named Basra-road stage.