Al-Kiryawn

al-Kiryawn: a place before Alexandria. There Amr ibn al-As met the armies of the Byzantines and the Copts, who had gathered to attack him at Fustat; he defeated them and killed a great number of them. ¹

There Amr said to the Muslims: "Go forth in God's blessing; whoever plants a spear in a house, the house is his and his father's family's." So the house between two or three persons was a dwelling for the days of their garrison duty, not to be sold or inherited. See the conquest of Alexandria.

Al-Maqrizi says, quoting Ibn Abd al-Hakam, that the canal that brought water into Alexandria was led from the village of Kasa, opposite al-Kiryawn ².

He says that the fighting at al-Kiryawn went on for some ten days, and that Abdallah ibn Amr commanded the vanguard ³.

He says that when the Muslims left al-Kiryawn, the houses where their spears had been planted were occupied by the Byzantines, who held their repair ⁴.