Abar Qubadh

Abar Qubadh: a town in the districts of the Tigris. The conquest accounts say that Utba ibn Ghazwan turned to it at once, and God granted him its conquest. ¹

An additional source is needed: the place file does not state its location or the date of the conquest.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam calls Abarkubadh one of the sub-districts (fassuj) of Turak, in the Sasanian division that the Arabs adopted. It belonged to the district of Khusraw Shadh Bahman, the district of the Tigris, and covered a strip of land along the western frontier of Khuzistan between Wasit and Basra. ²

The name comes from the Sasanian king Kawadh (Kubadh) I. Its first element is probably abar, "cloud", not Abaz or Abadh as the Arab geographers wrote. Some Arab authors place Arradjan in this district, which the article calls a mistake. ²

The summary above calls Abarkubadh a city; the encyclopaedia calls it a sub-district. Both descriptions are recorded here and the difference is left open.