Umayr ibn Sa'd al-Ansari

عمير بن سعد الأنصاري

An Ansari; Umar ibn al-Khattab sent him in year 21 to Byzantine lands at the head of a great army, giving him the summer expedition — the first sa'ifa — and ordering him to conciliate Jabala ibn al-Ayham, appeal to their kinship and invite him back to the land of Islam on paying what alms he had offered while keeping his religion; Jabala refusing all but remaining, Umayr reached the place called al-Himar, a valley, and fell upon its people laying it waste.

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The Conquest of the Jazira

In al-Baladhuri through the Raqqa judge Dawud ibn Abd al-Hamid's family from Maymun ibn Mihran: 'the whole Jazira is Iyad ibn Ghanm's conquest, after Abu Ubayda's death — Umar appointed him to it, Abu Ubayda having left him over Syria; Umar gave Syria to Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan then Mu'awiya after him and ordered Iyad to raid the Jazira'; Sulayman ibn Ata says Abu Ubayda dispatched him to the Jazira and died while he was there, Umar then confirming him; al-Waqidi's report — the soundest they had on him — is that Abu Ubayda died in the Amwas plague of year 18 having appointed Iyad, and Umar's letter reached him giving him Hims, Qinnasrin and the Jazira, so he marched for the Jazira on Thursday the middle of Sha'ban year 18 in five thousand, Maysara ibn Masruq al-Absi on the vanguard, Sa'id ibn Amir ibn Hudhaym al-Jumahi on the right wing and Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal al-Sulami on the left — some say Khalid ibn al-Walid held his left wing, some that Khalid marched under no banner after Abu Ubayda, staying at Hims till his death in year 21, or dying at Medina.

Umayr ibn Sa'd al-Ansari

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The Conquest of the Jazira