Bajila

Bajila
بجيلة
Qahtanite
Banner of Bajila at the Battle of Siffin (657)
EthnicityArab
NisbaAl-Bajali
LocationMecca
Iraq (after 634)
ReligionArabian polytheism, later Islam

The Bajīla (Arabic: بجيلة) was an Arab tribe that inhabited the mountains south of Mecca in the pre-Islamic era and later dispersed to different parts of Arabia and then Iraq under the Muslims. The tribe, under one of its chieftains Jarir ibn Abd Allah, played a major role in the Muslim army that conquered Iraq in the mid-7th century.