Iyad's Incursion toward Khilat

دخول إياد الدرب إلى خلاط

c. January 640 CE · Muharram 20 AH

In al-Baladhuri: Iyad took Amid without fighting on the like of al-Ruha's treaty, Mayyafariqin likewise, the fortress of Kafr Tuta, Nasibin after fighting on the like of al-Ruha's terms, Tur Abdin and the fortress of Mardin with Dara likewise, and Qarda and Bazabda on the like of Nasibin's terms — and the patrician of al-Zawzan came to him compounding for his land at a tribute, all in year 19 and days of Muharram year 20; then he marched to Arzan, taking it on Nasibin's terms, entered the pass to Badlis, crossed to Khilat and compounded with its patrician, reached al-Ayn al-Hamida of Armenia which he did not cross, and returning held Badlis's lord guarantor for the kharaj of Khilat, its dependencies and its patrician's lands, then withdrew to al-Raqqa and went to Hims — Umar having given it to him — where he died in year 20.

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The Conquest of Harran

In al-Baladhuri: Iyad marched on Harran, halting at Ajda and sending his vanguard ahead — its people shut the gates against them, and when he invested it the Harranian faction among them sent word that they held part of the city and asked him to make for al-Ruha so they could compound with him secretly and leave him and the Christians apart; the Christians heard, consented to what the Harranians offered and outbid it, so he went to al-Ruha whose people had gathered, shot at the Muslims a while, sent out their fighters whom the Muslims routed back into the city, and soon sued for peace and aman; another report has Iyad finding Harran empty — its people removed to al-Ruha — so when al-Ruha fell they compounded for their city from within it on the like of its treaty; he compounded with Harran on the like of al-Ruha's terms, they opened its gates, he set a man over it and went on to Sumaysat where Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal and Habib ibn Maslama held villages and forts, its people compounding likewise — Sumaysat later apostatised and he returned and besieged it till he took it — and he came to Saruj, Ra's Kayfa and the White Land, mastering its land and compounding with its fort-dwellers on al-Ruha's terms.

Iyad's Incursion toward Khilat

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