"I had insomnia in Bâniḳiya and whosoever receives
what I received there—a wound, would certainly have insomnia."
Al-Wâḳidi states, "Our companions agree that this Ḍirâr was slain in al-Yamâmah."
Al-Falâlîj and Tustar. From Bâniḳiya, Khâlid came to al-Falâlij,[1] in which was massed a host of Greeks. They were soon dispersed, and Khâlid, meeting no resistance, returned to al-Ḥîrah. Hearing that Jâbân was at the head of a great army in Tustar,[2] Khâlid sent against him al-Muthanna ibn-Ḥârithah ash-Shaibâni and Ḥanẓalah ibn-ar-Rabîʿ[3] ibn-Rabâḥ al-Usaidi of the banu-Tamîm (he is the one called Ḥanẓalah-l-Kâtib [the scribe]). No sooner had these two come to the place where Jâbân was, than he fled.
Sûḳ Baghdâd and al-Anbâr. Khâlid proceeded to al-Anbâr[4] whose people betook themselves to their fortifications. Here some one came to Khâlid and pointed out to him Sûḳ [market] Baghdâdh,[5] which later [after Baghdâdh was founded] was called as-Sûḳ al-ʿAtîḳ [the old market] and which lay near Ḳarn aṣ-Ṣarât[6] Khâlid sent al-Muthanna who made a raid on this market, and the Moslems filled their hands with gold and silver and commodities light to carry. They spent the night at as-Sailaḥîn, and then came to al-Anbâr where Khâlid was. The Moslems then invested the inhabitants of al-Anbâr and set fire to places in its district. Al-Anbâr was thus called because the Persian granaries were in it and the friends and protégés of an-Nuʿ
- ↑ Pl. of Fallûjah. Yâḳût, vol. iii, p. 908.
- ↑ Ḥauḳal, p. 172.
- ↑ "Rabîʿah" in Duraid, p. 127; and "Rabîʿah ibn-Ṣaifi" in Ḳutaibah, Maʿârif, p. 153.
- ↑ Iṣṭakhri, p. 77.
- ↑ Le Strange, Baghdâd during the Abbasid Caliphate, p. 12.
- ↑ As-Sarât Point, where aṣ-Ṣarât canal disembogued to the Tigris. See Yaʿḳûbi, Buldân, p. 235.
