it reaches Mount Thawr from the north-east, leaving that mountain and whatever lies beyond it outside the sanctuary, while including the whole of Mount Uhud, the reservoir that surrounds it, the factories and their adjacent orchards, and the districts of al-ʿArīḍ, al-ʿAwālī, and Qurbān, until the line meets the extension of the Butḥān Dam opposite the eastern tip of ʿAyr.

4 – The committee then moved to the edge of ʿAyr on its south-western side, the side facing Dhul-Ḥulayfah. Since ʿAyr is a large, elongated mountain, the committee approached its extremity, stood on a rise at its foot, and surveyed what lay around it and what corresponded to it from the western and north-western lava fields.

5 – Next the committee proceeded to the western lava field, which lies closer to the city than the eastern one. The western field begins at the Anbariyyah Gate, as noted earlier, and is similar to the eastern in that it is broken in places, especially on its northern side, as can be observed near the Mosque of the Two Qiblahs, where there is an open area containing farms, sands, and saline flats, intersected by roads, springs, and wadis that lead toward Uhud, al-Jurf, and the surrounding places. The lava field stretches southward until it approaches the eastern flank of ʿAyr, near the edge of the eastern lava field in the Qubāʾ area. Separating the two lava fields are the orchards of Qubāʾ and Qurbān, al-ʿAwālī, Wadi Mahzūr, and the streams of Mudhaynīb, Jafāf, Butḥān, and al-Rānūnah.

The committee travelled from ʿAyr to Uhud so that from there it might reach Thawr, following along the new road laid out for visitors who do not wish to enter the city—known as al-Taḥwīlah (the bypass). This road begins at the end of al-Bayḍāʾ, the terminus of the highway coming from Jeddah, before it reaches Dhul-Ḥulayfah; it then turns northward, leaving the city on the right. The committee observed that this road, along its course, runs parallel to the line between ʿAyr and Thawr on this side, though it overshoots that line at both its beginning and its end. Consequently, the committee resolved that the markers should be placed from the western tip of ʿAyr, running first westward and then north-westward, so as to include Dhul-Ḥulayfah, al-ʿAqiq, the ʿUrwah Dam, the three Jammāwāt hills, and the university buildings.