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. Abu-ʿUbaidah ibn-al-Jarrâḥ, after being through with al-Yarmûk, went to the province of Ḥimṣ and passed from one place to the other examining it. Then he went to Ḳinnasrîn [Chalcis] with Khâlid ibn-al-Walîd commanding the van of his army. The inhabitants of the city of Ḳinnasrîn resisted at first, then they sought refuge in their stronghold and asked to capitulate. Abu-ʿUbaidah made terms with them similar to those of Ḥimṣ. Thus the Moslems effected the conquest of the land of Ḳinnasrîn with its villages. The Ḥâḍir Ḳinnasrîn had been settled by the Tanûkh tribe since they came to Syria and pitched their tents in it. They later built their houses in it. These, abu-ʿUbaidah summoned to Islâm. Some of them accepted it, but the banu-Salîḥ ibn-Ḥulwân ibn-ʿImrân ibn-al-Ḥâfi ibn-Ḳuḍâʿah remained Christian.

Certain sons of Yazîd ibn-Ḥunain aṭ-Ṭâʾi-l-Anṭâki from their sheikhs:—A group of men from this Ḥâḍir Ḳinnasrîn embraced Islam in the caliphate of al-Mahdi who inscribed on their hands in green color the word "Ḳinnasrîn."

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