Shuways al-Adawi

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Shuways al-Adawi; he relates marching with al-Ubulla's amir to its conquest, then crossing to al-Furat whose folk came out with spades and were beaten.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
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Shuways al-Adawi, one of al-Baladhuri's narrators. He reports that they went out with the governor of al-Ubulla and won it, then crossed the Euphrates. His people came out to them with their shovels, and they defeated them and opened the Euphrates 1. He is among those who took part in the conquest of al-Ubulla.

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Conquest of al-Ubulla and al-Furat

People and things also explored

Arda bint al-Harith· مجاشع بن مسعود السلمي· Utba ibn Ghazwan· زياد بن أبي سفيان· al-Ubulla· Conquest of al-Ubulla and al-Furat

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Arda bint al-Harith

Arda bint al-Harith ibn Kallada, Utba ibn Ghazwan's wife; she goaded the men at the al-Furat city fight with her verse 'if they rout you, you'll enter us uncircumcised'.