Battle of al-Saqatiyya at Kaskar (13 AH)

Name: Battle of al-Saqatiyya at Kaskar (13 AH)
Start: 0634

وقعة السقاطية بكَسْكر

634 CE · 13 AH

At al-Saqatiyya below Kaskar, Abu 'Ubayd smashed Narsi — the shah's cousin — and his joined levies. In the captured camp was the narsiyyan, a date the Kaisars reserved for the royal table alone and none else might plant; the Muslims fed it to the farmers, sent its fifth to 'Umar with the letter: 'God fed us food the Kaisars hoarded — we wished you to see it, to thank God's grace.' Behind the battle stood Buran, crowned after Rustam put out Azarmidukht's eyes, on a ten-year pact to restore the House of Kisra ¹.

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The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate

Overview

At al-Saqatiyya below Kaskar: the fugitives joined Narsi, the king's nephew, with the men of Barusma and al-Zawabi and Bustam's sons Banduwayh and Tiruwayh; Abu 'Ubayd fell on them from the Namarq, the Persians broke, Narsi fled, and the Muslims seized his camp and lands. They took the narsiyan — a date-palm only Chosroes or his honored ate, planted by none else — fed it to the peasants, sent its fifth to 'Umar, and wrote: "God has fed us foods the Khusraws used to guard; we wished you to see them and thank His favor." Earlier Buran had been enthroned for ten years after Rustam put out Azarmidukht's eye ¹.

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Occurred at: Kaskar
Had participant: Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi

People and things also explored

Abu Ubayd's Dispatch to Iraq· Battle of al-Namarq (13 AH)· The Day of the Bridge· Umar's Endowment of the Sawad upon Its People· Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi· Kaskar

Sources

al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 275

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Abu Ubayd's Dispatch to Iraq

In al-Baladhuri: when Umar succeeded he sent Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud ibn Amr ibn Umayr ibn Awf ibn Uqda ibn Ghiyara ibn Awf ibn Thaqif — being Abu al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd — to Iraq in a thousand, writing al-Muthanna to receive, hear and obey him, and sent with him Salit ibn Qays ibn Amr al-Ansari, telling him 'but for the haste in you I'd have appointed you — war is cunning, only the patient man suits it.' Abu Ubayd came on urging every Arab tribe to jihad and booty till a host joined him; at al-Mudhayyib he heard Jaban the Persian was at Tustar in a great host — met him, routed his host and took captives; then to Durna whose Persian host he routed to Kaskar; then to the Jalinus at Barusma where Ibn al-Andarzghar made peace at four dirhams a head on withdrawing; he sent al-Muthanna to Zandaward — found repudiated, fought, prevailed and captured — and Urwa ibn Zayd al-Khayl al-Ta'i to al-Zawabi whose dihqan he pacified on Barusma's terms.