After the fall of the Rashidun Caliphate in 661, they continued serving under their successors, the Umayyad Caliphate.[1] One year later, the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I (661–680) resettled some of the Asawira in Antioch. According to Ibn al-Faqih, the Umayyad governor Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan had a mosque constructed in Basra for them in the late 660s.[1]