Ibn Saʿd also states: “Naʿīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Naḥḥām al-ʿAdawī was killed that day.” I (the author) add: he has already been mentioned.

It is further said that the commander of Abū ʿUbaydah’s flank that day was Qubāth ibn Ashīm al-Kinānī al-Laythī.

Other reports list among the slain that day ʿIkrima ibn Abī Jahl, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-ʿAwwām, ʿAyyāsh ibn Abī Rabīʿah, and ʿĀmir ibn Abī Waqqāṣ al-Zuhrī.

The Battle of al-Qādisiyyah

According to what has reached us, the battle of al-Qādisiyyah took place in Iraq toward the end of the year. The Muslim forces were led by Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, while the polytheists were under Rustam, with al-Jālinūs and Dhu l-Hājib alongside him.

Abū Wāʾil said: “The Muslims numbered between seven and eight thousand, whereas Rustam commanded sixty thousand—some say forty thousand—and they had seventy elephants with them.”

Al-Madāʾinī relates that the fighting raged for three days at the end of Shawwāl—others say in Ramaḍān—until Rustam was killed and his troops broke. Some hold that Rustam died of thirst. The Muslims pursued them, and al-Jālinūs and Dhu l-Hājib were slain as well; they cut the enemy down all the way from al-Kharrār to—