College Of Basic Education Research Journal

Abstract

The Rabia tribe, which is one of the Arab tribes that lived in the Hijaz in the Arabian Peninsula, and the lineage of the Rabia tribes goes back to the children of Ismail bin Ibrahim (peace be upon them). A large number of them are in al-Yamamah, and the other part migrated towards Iraq after they heard about the availability of water and pasture in southern Iraq, and they used to call Iraq in the past the land of blackness because of its abundance of bounties and orchards and for its fresh water and rivers. The second factor that led the Rabi’a tribe to emigrate was the large number of wars and fighting between them, the most important of which was the Al-Basous war, which lasted for nearly forty years between the bellies of the Rabi’a tribe, the Bakris and the Taghlibis. The third factor that had a role in the migrations of the Arab tribes, including the Rabia tribe, is the emergence of Islam and the beginning of the Islamic conquest movements, which has a role in leaving many Arab tribes from their areas and heading to new areas, including the Rabia tribe, and large numbers of the Rabia tribe migrated with the campaign of Amr ibn al-Aas towards Egypt and settled in Egypt, and in the third century AH, they headed with the Islamic campaigns to the country of Beja, where there were 
many gold mines and emerald stones, in order to settle in Wadi Al-Alaqi, where the gold mines are.