Name: Dayr al-Jathaliq
Address: Dayr al-Jathaliq, Global / Diaspora

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Battle of al-Khazir

In 66 AH Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad set out with the armies of Syria toward Iraq. When he reached Mosul he met Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar al-Nakha'i, who commanded the cavalry of Iraq on behalf of al-Mukhtar, at al-Khazir. It was a great battle in which Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, al-Husayn ibn Numayr, Shurahbil ibn Dhi al-Kala' and leading men of Syria were killed. The book states that al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd sent a force led by Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar to fight Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, that the victory went to Ibn al-Ashtar, and that the Syrian troops suffered killing and drowning. It also says that the rout of the Syrian troops came at the moment when the vein of tribal zeal between Qays and Yemen throbbed.

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