Abū Muḥammad Maʿdīkarib ibn Qays ibn Maʿdīkarib, better known as al-Ashʿath, was a chief of the Kinda tribe of Hadhramawt and founder of a leading noble Arab household in Kufa, one of the two main garrison towns and administrative centers of Iraq under the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs. Wikipedia