al-Nu'man ibn Jabala al-Tanukhi

Al-Nu'man ibn Jabala al-Tanukhi, bearer of the banner of Tanukh and Bahra' in the army of Mu'awiya at Siffin. ¹

Al-Mas'udi relates that when the killing lengthened among the people of Syria, Mu'awiya answered with a well-known saying. In it he said that he advised him about himself, preferred his kingship over his religion, and left right guidance for his desire though he knew it. He said they would fight for the figs and olives of Ghuta, since they had been deprived of the fruits and rivers of Paradise. Then he pressed on to war. ¹

• The report is given by al-Mas'udi alone in the data, and no other text supports it; it needs an additional source.