Qudaʾa

Quda'a: a great clan of Himyar, though its tracing is disputed; it left Yemen for the desert of al-Samawa then Syria — from it the Daja'ima, the Arabs' first kings for the Byzantines.

Quda'a left Yemen and settled the desert of al-Samawa overlooking Iraq ¹. In Ardashir's time the people of al-Hira and al-Anbar submitted to the Sasanians, and his takeover was a cause of Quda'a's departure to Syria ¹.

Clans of it settled Syria's marches — of Banu Salih ibn Hulwan — among them Banu Daj'am known as the Daja'ima; the Romans cultivated them to hold back the desert Arabs and appointed a king from them — the most famous being Ziyad ibn al-Habula — until the Ghassanids overcame them ¹.