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 Muʾtah), Nuʿaim ibn-ʿAbdallâh an-Naḥḥâm al-ʿAdawi (who, according to others, was killed in the battle of al-Yarmûk), Hishûm ibn-al-ʿÂṣi ibn-Wâʾil as-Sahmi (who is also supposed by others to have been slain in the battle of al-Yarmûk), Jundub ibn-ʿAmr ad-Dausi, Saʿîd ibn-al-Ḥârith, al-Ḥârith ibn-al-Ḥârith, and al-Ḥajjâj ibn-al-Ḥârith ibn-Ḳais ibn-ʿAdi as-Sahmi. According to Hishâm ibn-Muḥammad al-Kalbi, an-Naḥḥam was killed in the battle of Muʾtah.

Saʿîd ibn-al-Ḥârith ibn-Ḳais was slain in the battle of al-Yarmûk; Tamîm ibn-al-Ḥârith, in the battle of Ajnâdîn; his brother, ʿUbaidallâh ibn ʿAbd-al-Asad, in al-Yarmûk; and al-Ḥârith ibn-Hishâm ibn-al-Mughîrah, in Ajnâdîn.

. When the news of this battle came to Heraclius, his heart was filled with cowardice and he was confounded. Consequently, he took to flight to Antioch [Anṭâkiyah] from Ḥimṣ [Emesa]. It was mentioned by someone that his flight from Ḥimṣ to Antioch coincided with the advance of the Moslems to Syria. This battle of Ajnâdîn took place on Monday twelve days before the end of Jumâda I, year 13. Some, however, say two days after the beginning of Jumâda II, and others two days before its end.

After that, the Greeks massed an army at Yâḳûṣah which was a valley with al-Fauwârah at its mouth. There the Moslems met them, dispelled them and put them to flight with a great slaughter. Their remnants fled to the cities of Syria. The death of abu-Bakr took place in Jumâda II, year 13, and the Moslems received the news in al-Yâḳûṣah.