Cities

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• Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas

  c. 595 CEOne of the earliest converts, an archer at Badr, and the commander who broke the Sasanian army at al-Qadisiyya about 636; founder of the garrison city of Kufa.

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• Najran

  A large town some seven stages south of Mecca toward Yemen, remembered in the prophetic sources as comprising seventy-three villages and a powerful Christian community whose delegation reached Medina in 9 AH.

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