ʿAjārida is the name applied to those second/eighth-century Persian Khārijī sects associated with ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAjarrad (or Ibn ʿAjrad). According to Ibn Ḥazm, the term refers to "most of the Khawārij of Khurāsān" (4:145). The heresiographers generally take Ibn ʿAjarrad to have begun his career as a supporter of ʿAṭiyya b. al-Aswad, a Khārijī leader from Arabia who arrived in Kirmān in 72/691; Ibn ʿAjarrad is also said (less credibly) at one time to have been a follower of Abū Bayhas, differing with