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al-Najraniyya

النجرانية

A village in the Kufa district settled by the Christians of Najran and their Jewish dependents when Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him) exiled them from Yemen in his caliphate, and named after them; the head of al-Najraniyya used to send agents to their scattered communities in Syria and the districts collecting a fund divided among them to sustain the stipulated hullas, and they complained of dispersion, deaths and conversions until Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz found them at a tithe of their original number.

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al-Najraniyya: a village in the district of Kufa. The Christians of Najran and those who followed them from its Jews settled in it when Umar ibn al-Khattab expelled them from Yemen in his caliphate, and it was named after them. 1

Collecting the garments

The lord of al-Najraniyya used to send his envoys to those of them who had scattered in al-Sham and the surrounding districts. They collected money from them, which he divided among them to provide the garments imposed on them. They complained of their dispersal, the deaths of those who died, and the conversions of those who converted, until Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz found them at a tenth of their original number. 1

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Umar's Expulsion of the Christians of Najran
Part of
Kufa

People and things also explored

al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt· Great Mosque of Kufa· Ali burns people in Kufa who claimed he was God· Ali burns the village of Zarara where wine was sold· ʿAli's dispatch of his own governors to the garrison towns (36 AH)· Ali enters Kufa in 36 AH· Ali's judgment on a slap over a debased dirham in Kufa· Ali's rounds in the market of Kufa

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.89-90
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al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt

A maternal half-brother of Uthman ibn Affan, he embraced Islam on the day of the conquest; Ibn Abd al-Barr says the commentators do not disagree that verse 6 of al-Hujurat was revealed about him when the Prophet sent him to collect alms from Banu al-Mustaliq, and Ibn Hajar points to the weakness of the chains of that story; Uthman made him governor of Kufa in 25 AH and removed him after he was flogged for drinking wine, as the two collections report; he withdrew from the civil strife and stayed at al-Raqqa until he died in Mu'awiya's caliphate.