abstract:The Lakhmids (Arabic: ), Banu Lakhm (Arabic: ), Muntherids (Arabic: ), were a group of Arabs and nowadays, Muslims who lived in Southern Iraq, and made al-Hirah their capital in 266. Poets described it as a Paradise on earth; an Arab Poet described the city's pleasant climate and beauty thus: "One day in al-Hirah is better than a year of treatment".