ARABS: IMMIGRANTSin the military dtwiin with stipends of two thousand dirhams apiece.32
Consequently, Jadr and the Bajila received a large allotment when
they settled at Kufa.^33 Although Jarir and some of his relatives left
Kufa in the time of 'An and moved to Qarqisiyya, a force of one
thousand men was raised in the district of the BajIla in 685.^34
The tribe of Azd arrived still later and found an unclaimed spot
between the Kinda and the Bajila. They settled there and established
their cemetery. A reference to seven hundred fighting men of the tribe
of Azd in 680 provides a minimum estimation of the strength of this
tribe in Kufa.^35 Other latecomers, the tribes of Asad, Tamim, and Bakr
ibn Wa'il, had to settle in the suburbs.^36 An indication of the subdi-
vision of such tribal districts along clan lines is provided for the Asad
by a reference in 686 to the entrance of the street of the clan of Bani
J adhima ibn Malik in the district of the tribe of Asad, and to the
masjid of the Bani Jadhima.^37 Although a foundation concession was
made to 'Umara ibn Ruwayba of Tamim, the Tamim and 'Abd al-
Qays from eastern Arabia were led to the Iraqi front in 633 by Zuhra
ibn al-I:Iawiyya. The 'Abd al-Qays are also identified as the Ahl al-
I:Iajar, who were among the last settlers to arrive in Kufa and received
the lowest stipends-two hundred dirhams. By 685, the 'Abd al-Qays
had their own masjid in Kufa.^38 Members of the Hamdan who began
to migrate from Yaman to Iraq as early as 635 did not settle together
in Kufa at first, but by 685 they seem to have had a district of their
own.^39 The Nakha' also migrated to Iraq from Yaman at the time of
32 Abii Yiisuf, Khariij, pp. 49-50; Baladhuri, Futu~, pp. 253, 267-68. According to
one account, the BajIla had amounted to fifteen thousand men at Hudaybiya. All fifteen
thousand may not have gone to Iraq, and they must have suffered casualties during the
campaign. Consequently the number that settled at Kufa must have been somewhat
less than fifteen thousand; but this was still a significantly large proportion of the
population in the ciry and in the army (YaJ:!yii ibn A.dam, Khariij, pp. 42-43).
33 Ya'qiibi, Les pays, pp. 143-44; idem, Ta'rfkh, II, 173.
34 Dinawari, Akhbiir a?-tiwiil, pp. 171, 305.
3S Tabari, Ta'rfkh, II, 374; Ya'qiibi, Les pays, p. 144.
36 Ya'qiibi, Les pays, p. 144.
37 Ibn al-Faqih, Buldiin, p. 183; Tabari, Ta'rfkh, II, 735.
38 S.H.M. Jafri, The Origins and Early Development of Shi'a Islam, (London and
New York, 1979), p. 105; Tabari, Ta'rfkh, I, 2413; II, 657; Ya'qiibi, Les pays, p. 142.
L. Massignon, in Salman Pak et les premices spirituelles de /'Islam Iranien (Tours,
1934), p. 26, claims that Tamim and 'Abd al-Qays settled together in the same "seyenth"
district in Kufa in 638, but, as we shall see, the sevenths were divisions in the Kufan
army created by Sa'd and did not parallel the settlement pattern; Tamim and 'Abd al-
Qays belonged to different sevenths, and are only found together in one of the "fourths"
of the Kufan army created by Ziyiid. These-did not correspond to neighborhoods, either.
39 Tabari, Ta'rikh, II, 605; Ya'qiibI, Les pays, p. 144. Massignon's claim (Salman