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the Khalid shrine outside Homs

مشهد خالد خارج حمص

Hims (Emesa)

The shrine outside Homs popularly ascribed to Khalid ibn al-Walid (may God be pleased with him); al-Umari rejects the ascription decisively — Khalid was dismissed by Umar, taken to Medina and died there — and assigns the tomb to Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mu'awiya 1.

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A shrine outside Homs that the common people attribute to Khalid ibn al-Walid. 1

Al-Umari's correction

Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari firmly denies this attribution. He says that Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him) removed Khalid from Homs and summoned him to Medina, where he died, and that Umar was displeased with him after his death. 1

Al-Umari holds that the tomb belongs to Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mu'awiya. 1

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Hims (Emesa)
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Khalid ibn al-Walid

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The Conquest of Hims· Khalid ibn al-Walid· Hims (Emesa)· Abu Bakr's Sortie to Naq' and Khalid's Command· Ali ibn Abi Talib's expeditions to Yemen (twice)· The Battle of Ajnadayn· The Battle of Buzakha· The Battle of Hunayn

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  1. Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing), p. 219
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The Conquest of Hims

In al-Baladhuri: when Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah finished with Damascus he put before him Khalid ibn al-Walid and Milhan ibn Zayyar al-Ta'i, then followed them; passing Ba'labakk, whose people sought safety and terms, he compounded with them securing themselves, their wealth, churches and houses inside and outside the city and their mills, the Byzantines to graze their flocks between them and fifteen miles without settling a peopled village, free to depart where they would after Rabia and Jumada I passed, whoever converted having our rights and duties, their merchants free to travel through the treaty lands, and jizya and kharaj upon whoever stayed; per al-Waqidi, while the Muslims stood at Damascus's gates a dense cavalry of the enemy approached and a company met them between Bayt Lahya and al-Thaniyya, routing them toward Hims on the Qara road and pursuing them to find they had passed it by — the people of Hims, already shaken by Heraclius's flight and by reports of the Muslims' might, offered their hands and sued for safety, which was granted, bringing out supplies and food while the Muslims stayed on the Asi under al-Simt ibn al-Aswad al-Jundi; when Abu Ubayda finished with Damascus he left Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan over it and came to Hims by way of Ba'labakk, camping at Bab al-Rastan, and its people compounded for safety of themselves, wealth, city wall, churches and mills, a quarter of the church of John being excepted for the mosque — compounding for a hundred and seventy thousand dinars; afterwards Hims and Qinnasrin became one.