and al-Saʿdī; Qarẓah ibn Kaʿb; Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh; Ibn ʿAbbās; al-Ḥasan; al-Ḥusayn; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib; Abū Masʿūd ʿUqbah ibn ʿAmr; Abū Ayyāsh al-Zurqī; ʿAdiyy ibn Ḥātim; al-Ashʿath ibn Qays; Sulaymān ibn Ṣurad; Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allāh; and Jāriyyah ibn Qudāmah al-Saʿdī.

Ibn Sīrīn reported: “Seventy thousand were killed on the day of Ṣiffīn; they were counted with stalks of reed.”

Khalīfah and others said: “The armies separated after leaving sixty thousand dead—some say seventy thousand—of whom forty-five thousand were from the Syrian side.”

ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Ḥarb narrated, through Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Jaʿfar—I think he meant Ibn Abī al-Mughīrah—from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā, from his father, who said: “We were with ʿAlī—eight hundred men who had pledged the Pledge of Riḍwān; sixty-three of us were killed, among them ʿAmmār.”

Abū ʿUbaydah and others related that ʿAlī’s standard was carried by Hāshim ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, while ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir commanded the cavalry.

Another report states that ʿAlī was kept from the Euphrates because Muʿāwiyah reached the water first, but al-Ashʿath drove them away and secured access to it.

I say: The two armies then withdrew, setting a date for the arbitration.

Those killed fighting alongside ʿAlī included Khuzaymah ibn Thābit, ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, Hāshim ibn ʿUtbah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Badīl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb al-Murādī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Kuladah al-Jumaḥī, Qays ibn Makshūḥ al-Murādī, and Abī ibn Qays al-Nakhaʿī, the brother of—