al-Qa'qa' ibn 'Amr

Al-Qa'qa' ibn Amr, a commander of the heroes of al-Qadisiyya according to al-Mas'udi. He came with Hashim ibn Utba as reinforcements from Syria, with five thousand horsemen from Rabi'a and Mudar and a thousand from Yemen, a month after the conquest of Damascus. ¹

He came out in front of the line and called: "Is there a challenger?" Bahman ibn Jadhawayh came out to him, who was Dhu al-Hajib. Al-Qa'qa' called: "For the vengeance of Abu Ubayd and Salit and their companions on the day of the Bridge!" and killed him. ¹

It is said that he killed thirty men that day in thirty charges, and that the last he killed was Buzurjmihr. ¹

• The report is given by al-Mas'udi alone in the data, with no dates. It needs an additional source.