The Najdi chronicler Ibn Bishr had this to say under the year 1229 Hijri (1814-15) the year the Wahhabi leader Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz: As to the number of agents he [Saud] would send to collect taxes in camels and sheep from the Bedouins of the Peninsula of the Arabs [living] beyond the two Holy Shrines [Mecca and Medina], Oman, Yemen, Iraq and Sham, and also between these [lands] from the Bedouins of Najd, one of his [Saud’s] retinue, who later became a scribe for him, told me that the agents he [Saud] had sent to the Fad’aan, the well-known ‘Anazah Bedouins, [once] came back with their tax receipts, which amounted to forty thousand rials, not counting the revenues of the tax collectors, and eight mares of the choice horses, while the revenue collected by these agents [from Bedouin tribes] did not normally exceed 2,500 to 3,000 riyals.