The Ghassanid Kingdom
مملكة الغساسنة
c. 220 CE – 636 CE · 15 AH† †
† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.
The Arab client kingdom of Rome in al-Sham: the house of Jafna of the Azd displaced the Salihid Dajaʾima and ruled as Rome’s wardens of the desert frontier until Yarmuk, when their last king Jabala ibn al-Ayham entered Islam in Umar’s reign.
At a glance
- Era
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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In time
Overview
The Ghassanid kingdom: Jafna's house of the Azd, Rome's agents over Syria's Arabs — until Yarmuk and Jabala's Islam.
In the sira presentation
Al-Mubarakpuri devotes a chapter to government and rule among the Arabs before Islam, dividing the peninsula's rulers into non-independent crowned kings (Yemen's kings, the Ghassanid house and al-Hira's kings) and independent tribal chiefs 1.
Connections
- Ruled by
- Jabala ibn al-Ayham
People and things also explored
GhassanJabala ibn al-AyhamThe Second Abyssinian Occupation of YemenThe Battle of Dhu QarThe Conquest of KhaybarThe Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)The death of Abdullah ibn Ubayy and the Prophet's prayer over him
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Muhadarat Tarikh al-Umam al-Islamiyya — Muhammad al-Khudari
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Ghassanid Kingdom”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/polity/ghassanid-kingdom/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.