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al-Ruha (Edessa)

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al-Ruha (Edessa), greatest city of the Euphratean Jazira; the first of the Jazira towns Iyad ibn Ghanm took — standing at its gate on a chestnut horse, its people compounded with him for their great church and its surroundings, no new church beyond what they had, and aid to the Muslims against their enemy, failing which they had no dhimma — the people of the Jazira entering into their treaty.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Conquest of Edessa (al-Ruha)
Part of
The Jazira

People and things also explored

The Conquest of the Jazira· Dhimma (the covenant of protection)· Iyad ibn Ghanm al-Fihri· Harran· Malatya (Melitene)· Nasibin (Nisibis)· Qarqisiya (Circesium)· al-Raqqa

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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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.