"نجد الجنوبية: رحلة إلى الخرج والأفلاج والسليل ووادي الدواسر في سنة ١٩١٨." [و‎‎٢‎٠] (١٠٠/٤٤)

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close by the village stand two small hamlets—Haqaisiya to the
west and a nameless settlement of people from Saih to the south.
With the exception of this element from Saih the population
of Raudha, numbering some 500 in all, belongs wholly to the
Mubarak subsection of the A1 Hasan.
Sughu, the last oasis of the group, lies immediately south
of Raudha and consists of only a few groves, a small area of
cornfields and a tiny hamlet of some seventy or eighty houses
containing, with a few isolated qasrs in the groves, about 300
inhabitants.
A march of eleven miles SSW. across a flat plain with occa
sional outcrops of sand brings one to Badia, a large oasis, which
with the few scattered settlements lying along the edge of the
Ghadhara tract to the west makes up the last or southern section
of the settled tract of the Aflaj district.
Badia is reputed to have been in ancient times the chief
city of Aflaj. That this southern section was in very ancient
times the most important part of the district seems to be amply
borne out by the extensive ruin fields along the fringe of the
Ghadhara tract, of which I have already made mention. In
more recent, say medisBval, times the Badia oasis is said to have
been occupied by a tribe or family called A1 Asfar, regarding
whose origin I could obtain no information; the Asfar gave way
to the Jumaila section of the Anaza when the latter spread
over Nejd, on whose character and destinies they have left
so strong a mark; for indeed froin the members of the ruling
family downwards throughout the length and breadth of JNejd
all that is not dour and sour is probably traceable to Anaza
sources or Anaza influence. The Jumaila in turn were driven
out of the district by the Dawasir invasion which appears to
have taken place within the last two centuries.
The vicissitudes of fortune which Badia has passed through
have left a legacy of ruin and decay and one of the three distinct
sections into which the oasis can be divided is called Haddam,
the ruin field, the site, to judge by its extensive remains, of a
once large and flourishing city.
The second section or Badia proper occupies about two-
thirds of the remaining area of the oasis and comprises a number
of hamlets and isolated qasrs scattered about its straggling
shapeless palm-belt and cornfields. This section is inhabited
by the Sukhabira subsection of A1 Hasan, numbering perhaps