Hamra' Daylam

Hamra' Daylam were four thousand men who were with Rustam on the day of al-Qadisiyya, and were called the troops of the Shahanshah. ¹

Al-Baladhuri reports that they asked for safe conduct on condition that they might settle wherever they liked, make alliances with whom they liked, and have a fixed stipend. They allied themselves with Zuhra ibn Hawiyya al-Sa'di, and their leader was called Dayl, so they were called Hamra' Daylam. Ziyad sent some of them to Syria, where they called themselves Persians, and sent a group to Basra, where they joined the Asawira. ¹

Al-Mada'ini said that they had been the servants and retinue of Abarwiz, came from Daylam, embraced Islam after al-Qadisiyya, and witnessed the conquest of al-Mada'in. ¹