While Creswell believes that at the end of the linear sequence of the gate, after the last vaults, one would have passed out into a court 20 cubits square that led directly to the central square, Lassner suggests that "surrounding the central court were the residences of Al-Mansur's younger children, his servants in attendance, the slaves, the treasury, the arsenal, the diwan of the palace personnel, the public kitchen, and various other government agencies", so that there was a ring of building between the third fasil and the central courtyard Allan, 1991.
Según esa hipótesis existiría entonces un anillo de edificios entre el tercer fasil y la explanada central Allan, 1991.