Ibad
Former Christian Arab group in Iraq / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Christian community known as ʿIbād. For the founder and namesake of Ibadi Islam, known as Ibāḍ, see Abdallah ibn Ibad.
The ʿIbād or ʿEbād[1] (Arabic: عِباد) were a Christian Arab group within the city of al-Ḥīra (Ḥirtā) during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the city was part of the Sasanian Empire and later the Caliphate. Of diverse tribal backgrounds, the ʿIbād were united only by their adherence to Christianity and, after the sixth century, the Church of the East.