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Kaskar

كسكر

Sawad town; in al-Baladhuri the host of Durna was routed toward it by Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud, and Muslim raiding ran between al-Hira and Kaskar and between Kaskar, Sura, Baziqisma and Sirat Jamasib.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Kaskar is a land in al-Sawad. Al-Baladhuri reports that Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud defeated the army of Darna to Kaskar, and that the Muslims kept raiding between al-Hira and Kaskar, and between Kaskar and Sura, Buzaqsama and the Sirat of Jamasb. 1

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Site of
Battle of al-Saqatiyya at Kaskar (13 AH)· Umar's Endowment of the Sawad upon Its People

People and things also explored

Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi· Ali ibn Abi Talib· Bistam ibn Tarsi· Jamil ibn Busbuhri· Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Uthman ibn Hunayf· Battle of al-Saqatiyya at Kaskar (13 AH)

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi

Abu al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd ibn Mas'ud, of Thaqif; Umar's first appointee to Iraq in a thousand men — routed Jaban at al-Mudhayyib and Durna to Kaskar, pacified the Jalinus at Barusma at four dirhams a head, then crossed the bridge he had repaired against Dhu al-Hajib Mardanshah's mailed thousands and elephant, fighting till killed — or the elephant knelt upon him.