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The Bajīla (Arabic: بجيلة) was an Arab tribe that inhabited the mountains south of Mecca in the pre-Islamic era and later dispersed to different parts of Arabia and then Iraq under the Muslims.

The tribe, under one of its chieftains Jarir ibn Abd Allah, played a major role in the Muslim army that conquered Iraq in the mid-7th century.

Genealogy

In Arab genealogical tradition, the origins of the Bajila are not certain,^[1] The tribe's eponymous progenitor was said to be a woman.^[1] According to a number of the traditional genealogists, they, along with the Khath'am tribe, were subdivisions of the larger Anmar, which was identified either as Qahtanite (southern Arabian) or Adnanite (northern Arabian).^[1] The nisba of a member of the Bajila was "al-Bajalī".^[1]

History

The Bajila, along with its sister tribe of Khath'am, and the tribes of Banu Tamim, Banu Bakr and Abd al-Qays, launched raids against Sassanian-controlled Lower