Jadhima al-Abrash

Jadhima al-Waddah, known as al-Abrash, governor of Ardashir over al-Hira and over all of Rabi'a and Mudar in the Iraqi desert and the Jazira. He was the first model of the Persians ruling the Arabs through a man of their own, before the house of Lakhm arose ^{1 2}.

Ardashir judged that he could not rule the Arabs directly or stop them raiding the borders of his realm, unless he set over them a man of their own who had tribal support to back and protect him. Such a man could also be used against the Roman kings whom Ardashir feared, and would place the Arabs of Iraq against the Arabs of Syria whom the Romans had raised. Ardashir kept with the ruler of al-Hira a Persian force to call on against the Arabs of the desert who rebelled against his authority ¹.

Jadhima died around the year 268 CE. After him, Amr ibn Adi ibn Nasr al-Lakhmi, the first of the Lakhmid kings, ruled al-Hira ^{1 2}.

The story of Jadhima and al-Zabba', which is famous among the chroniclers, is not mentioned in al-Raheeq.