Dayr al-Jamajim

A monastery in the districts of Kufa. al-Baladhuri reports, on the authority of al-Sharqi ibn al-Qatami, that a battle took place between Iyad and Banu Bahra' and Banu al-Qayn, in which a great number of Iyad were killed, and they buried them by the monastery. Afterwards people used to dig and bring out skulls, so it was called the Monastery of the Skulls. Muhammad ibn al-Sa'ib al-Kalbi gives another explanation: that Malik al-Rimah al-Iyadi killed a group of Persians and set up their skulls by the monastery. ¹