Qassam al-Harithi
قسّام الحارثي
Qassam al-Harithi — a shepherd from Balghina on Jabal Sanbar who rose to lead the young men of Damascus until he took the city outright; an army came from Egypt, his cause collapsed, he hid, then took safe-conduct, was chained and shipped to Egypt in 376 — and pardoned 1.
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- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 87
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