[[Ostikan Nehemiah ben Hushiel]]'s proto-Karaite Ma'amad led the [[Ercolian-Karaites]] under Khosrow II to conquer the Patriarchates of Antioch and of Jerusalem after 610AD. They were evicted when the Persians betrayed them in 617 and fortified themselves in Edessa until either 622 or 628 when they were granted the Arabah instead by Emperor Heraclius.
Around 622 a certain [[Hanzalah]] succeeded Hani' ibn Qabisa of the Bakr-wail tribe in Dhi Qar though (married into the Judeo-Nazarene dynasty of Lakhmids was also referred to ) as a Ma'amad.
