apostatized, and he dispatched Ziyād ibn Labīd al-Anṣārī against another band of renegades. Ibn Isḥāq relates: ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Bakr told me that Ziyād launched a night raid against them and killed four of their chieftains—Jamdā, Makhūṣ, Mushraḥ, and Abḍaʿah.

That same year Abū Bakr led the people in the ḥajj.

After the wars against the apostates were over, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq sent Khālid ibn al-Walīd to the region of Basra, then known as “the Land of India.” Khālid marched with the troops who had fought with him at al-Yamāmah until he reached Basra’s territory. He attacked al-Uballah and captured it, entered Maysān and carried off booty and captives from its villages, and then advanced toward al-Sawād. He passed through the districts of Kaskar and Zandawird, having left Qutbah ibn Qatādah al-Sadūsī in charge of Basra. In the month of Rajab he concluded a treaty with the people of Alīs for one thousand dinars, then took Nahr al-Malik. Ibn Buqaylah, the ruler of al-Ḥīrah, made peace with him for ninety thousand, after which Khālid marched on al-Anbār and its people likewise sued for peace.

He next besieged ʿAyn al-Tamar; its inhabitants surrendered to his discretion, whereupon he put the combatants to death and took captives. Those Muslims who fell at ʿAyn al-Tamar included:
• Bashīr ibn Saʿd ibn Thaʿlabah, Abū al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī, one of the leading Helpers, present at Badr and the Pledge of ʿAqabah. It is said that he was the first