The Jarajima

الجراجمة

al-Jurjuma

The Jarajima, a community of the city al-Jurjuma on Jabal al-Lukkam between Bayyas and Buqa, clients of Antioch's patrician under Byzantium; the Muslims compounded with them to be auxiliaries, scouts and watchmen without jizya, granted the spoils of those they slew, the treaty taking in traders, hirelings and Nabataeans called the Rawadif; after Abd al-Malik secured them following Ibn al-Zubayr's fitna, al-Walid in year 88 took their city on terms that they settle where they wished in Syria at eight dinars a man plus provisions of wheat and oil for their households, none compelled to leave Christianity, wearing Muslim dress, no jizya on them or their children or wives, fighting beside the Muslims with the spoils of those they killed in single combat, and taxed on trade as the Muslims are — he then razed their city and settled them at Jabal al-Mawar, Sanh al-Lulun and the Tizin vale, some going to Hims; certain officials had imposed head-jizya on them at Antioch which they appealed to al-Wathiq, who remitted it, then al-Mutawakkil ordered it taken of them with stipends paid, since they were among those employed at the watchposts.