 The Ottoman authorities of Damascus expanded Ahmad 's fief as a token of gratitude . Ahmad 's son Zayn Tarabay ruled Lajjun for a brief period until his death in 1660 . He was succeeded by Ahmad 's brother Muhammad Tarabay , who — according to his French secretary — had good intentions for governing Lajjun , but was addicted to opium and as a result had been a weak leader . After his death in 1671 , other members of the Tarabay family ruled Lajjun until 1677 when the Ottomans replaced them with a government officer . The main reason behind the Ottoman abandonment of the Tarabays was that their larger tribe , the Bani <unk> , migrated east of Lajjun to the eastern banks of the Jordan River . Later during this century , Sheikh <unk> , ancestor to the <unk> @-@ based Abd al @-@ Hadi clan , became the leader of Sanjak Lajjun . When Henry Maundrell visited in 1697 , he described the place as " an old village near which was a good khan . 
