in whom I have full confidence that al-Mutawakkil ordered that poll-tax be levied on these Jarâjimah and that the regular allowance for food be given them, because, among other things, they were of value in the frontier garrisons.
Al-Jarâjimah molest the summer expeditions. It is claimed by abu-l-Khaṭṭâb al-Azdi that in the days of ʿAbd-al-Malik, the people of al-Jurjûmah used to make razzias against the villages of Antioch and al-ʿAmḳ; and whenever the summer expedition was carried out, al-Jarâjimah would cut off those who lagged behind or followed, together with any whom they could cut off at the rear of the army. They went so far against the Moslems that, by ʿAbd-al-Malik's orders, certain people from Antioch and some Nabateans were given stipends, placed as garrisons and set behind the armies of the summer expeditions in order to repel al-Jarâjimah from the rear. Therefore those set behind the armies of the summer expedition were called rawâdîf, i. e., followers, and to every one of them eight dinars were assigned. The former account is more authentic.
Az-Zuṭṭ. Abu-Ḥafs ash-Shâmi from Makḥûl:—Muʿâwiyah transplanted in the year 49 or 50 to the seacoast some of the Zuṭṭ and Sayâbijah[1] of al-Baṣrah, and made some of them settle in Antioch. According to abu-Ḥafṣ, there is in Antioch a quarter known by the name of az-Zuṭṭ. Some of their descendants are in Bûḳa in the province of Antioch and are known by the name of az-Zuṭṭ.
Some of the Zuṭṭ of as-Sind[2] were carried by Muḥammad ibn-al-Ḳâsim to al-Ḥajjâj, who sent them to Syria, and were later transplanted by al-Walîd ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik to Antioch.
Lebanon rebels. Muḥammad ibn-Saʿd from al-Wâḳidi:—
