Ar-Ruwailiyyah

Ar-Ruwailiyyah lies in the dry uplands north of al-Dafinah, an old watering place on the pilgrimage roads across Arabia. At al-Dafinah, the road from al-Yamamah joined the route from Basra towards Mecca. The station was known to medieval writers as al-Dathinah, and lay in the country of the Banu Sulaym.