Battle of Kom Sharik

After the peace, Amr ibn al-As led the Muslims out of al-Fustat towards Alexandria, with Coptic leaders who repaired the roads and set up bridges and markets for him. The Romans had prepared, and many ships had reached them from Roman lands. ¹ Amr met no one until Tarnut, where he fought a light engagement with a Roman detachment and routed it; then he met the whole Roman force at Kom Sharik, where they fought for three days until the Romans broke. ¹

Abd al-Malik ibn Maslama, from Ibn Lahi'a from Yazid ibn Abi Habib, reports that Amr sent Sharik ibn Sumayy after the Romans, and he caught and routed them at the mound called Kom Sharik. ² Another report says Sharik led Amr's vanguard and was driven onto the mound and surrounded; he sent Malik ibn Na'ima al-Sadafi on his matchless chestnut horse, who charged down the mound and outran the Romans to tell Amr, and when Amr came on the Romans withdrew. ²

Ibn Abd al-Hakam adds that the chestnut horse died and its owner buried it, and the spot in Misr was named the Chestnut's Lane (Khawkhat al-Ashqar) after it. ²