The Caliph Harun al-Rashid once slept with three slave girls: a Meccan, a Medinite, and an Irakite. The Medinah girl put her hand to his yard and handled it, whereupon it rose and the Meccan sprang up and drew it to herself. The other said, "What is this unjust aggression? A tradition was related to me by Malik after al-Zuhri, after Abdallah ibn Salim, after Sa'id bin Zayd, that the Apostle of Allah (whom Allah bless and keep!) said: 'Whoever enlivens a dead land, it is his.'" And the Meccan answered, "It is related to us by Sufyan from Abu Zanad, from Al-A'araj, from Abu Horayrah, that the Apostle of Allah said: 'The quarry is his who catches it, not his who starts it.'" But the Irak girl pushed them both away and, taking it to herself, said, "This is mine until your contention be decided." And they tell a tale of