Al-Miḏnab

Al-Mithnab is an oasis settlement in southern Qasim, among the wells and palm gardens of central Arabia. Its older inhabitants included people of the Bahilah, followed by other families who acquired land and expanded the settlement. In the sixteenth century Abdullah al-Khuraydili of the Tamim purchased a share of al-Mithnab from the Bahilah and became its ruler. Further arrivals increased its population and cultivation. In 1815 Abdullah ibn Saud stopped here while marching from Diriyah against Tusun's forces. Four years later the British traveller George Forster Sadleir described an open village with many wells, extensive palm groves and cultivated land, though he found the water somewhat bitter.