PEOPLEreceived allotments in the area closest to the masjid where they settled
as a group, according to their respective clans. In many respects, both
in the organization of the city and in the army the An~ar functioned
as a tribe.^24 Members of the Quraysh also settled in Kufa, where the
clan of the Banii 'Amr of Makhziim had an alley to themselves. By
680, the Makhziim had their own masjid in Kufa.^25 Several tribes that
had come from the Hijaz settled near the center of Kufa next to the
An~ar. J:ludhayfa ibn al-Yaman 'Absi received half of the empty space
(Ar. art) near the masjid where the camels were kept as his allotment,
and the tribe of 'Abs settled there.^26 By 642, the 'Abs had their own
tribal masjid.^27 Similar allotments near the center of the city were
granted to the leaders of the tribes or clans of Fazara, Bajla, Awd,
and Juhayna.^28 The Kinda, who had migrated from Hadramawt under
aI-Ash 'ath ibn Qays, were granted space to settle between the Juhayna
and the Awd, where Ash'ath laid out their district and their cemetery.29
The district of Kinda in Kufa eventually acquired gates, its own tribal
masjid, and, by the eighth century, its own market.^30 The members of
Tayyi' who settled in Kufa lived in the district of the cemetery of Bishr,
where 'Adi ibn J:latim at-Ta'i had been granted a foundation conces-
sion.31
The Bajila were one of the largest tribal groups to settle in Kufa.
They were approximately equal in numbers to the An~ar and are said
to have formed a quarter of the army at Qadisiyya, in return for which
'Umar allotted them one-fourth of the Sawad. They are said to have
occupied their land in the Sawad for three years until, with the growing
numbers of Muslims in Iraq and the establishment of the arrangement
whereby the revenues from the conquered lands were to be divided
equally among all the Muslim soldiers as their permanent booty (fay'),
'Umar persuaded the Bajila to restore their share of the Sawad to the
state. The leader of the Bajila, Jarir ibn 'Abdullah, was paid eighty
d,nars to relinquish his claim, and the men of the Bajila were enrolled
24 Tabari, Ta'Tlkh, I, 2174; Ya'qiibi, Les pays, pp. 142-43.
25 Baladhuri, FutulJ, p. 276; Tabari, Ta'Tlkh, 11, 734.
26Ya'qiibi, Les pays, pp. 141-43.
27 Tabari, Ta'Tlkh, I, 2606.
28 Ya'qiibi, Les pays, pp. 141-43; idem, Ta'Tlkh, 11, 173.
29 Tabari, Ta'Tlkh, 11, 617, 651; Ya'qiibi, Les pays, pp. 143, 144; idem, Ta'Tlkh, 11,
173.
30Ibn al-Faqih, Buldiln, p. 186; Tabari, Ta'Tlkh, I, 3459; 11, 119, 619.
31 Ya'qiibi, Les pays, p. 143.