Seyf b. ʿUmar, Muḥammad, Ṭalḥa, and Muhallab have reported the following:
"Khālid b. Walīd stayed for a while at Dūmat al-Jandal. The Persians (ʿAjam) there corresponded with the Arabs of al-Jazīra and gathered together to fight Khālid. They marched on Anbār to wrest it from Zibrikān. At that time, Zibrikān was in Anbār as Khālid’s deputy. When Zibrikān became aware of this, he wrote to Qaʿqāʿ b. ʿAmr, who was Khālid’s deputy in al-Ḥīra. Qaʿqāʿ then sent word to Abā b. Fadakī al-Saʿdī and appointed him commander at Ḥāṣid. He also sent ʿUrwa b. Abī Jaʿd al-Bāriqī and made him commander over the Ḥanafīs.
Khālid returned from Dūmat al-Jandal to al-Ḥīra. He intended to fight the people of Madāʾin, the capital of Kisrā (the Persian emperor). However, he did not deem it proper to wage this campaign without the permission of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq. The event that occupied him was the gathering of Persian soldiers, who had united with Christian Bedouins wishing to fight him. Therefore, he sent Qaʿqāʿ b. ʿAmr as commander over the people. The Persians were led by a commander named Luzbah, who was supported by another commander named Zaramhar. The two sides fought fiercely. The polytheists (mushrikūn) were routed. The Muslims killed many of them. Qaʿqāʿ killed Zaramhar, and Ismat b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Dabḥī killed Luzbah. The Muslims captured a great deal of booty. Some of the Persians fled and took refuge in a place called Ḥanafīs. Abū Laylā b. Fadakī al-Saʿdī marched against them. When they heard of his approach, they went to a place called Mudayyah. When they settled there with the Persians and Bedouins who were with them, Khālid b. Walīd marched against them with his troops. He divided his soldiers into three divisions. At night, while they were asleep, he attacked them. He killed them. Very few men escaped from the Muslims. The rest fell to the ground like sheep carcasses."
On this matter, Ibn Jarīr has transmitted from ʿAdī b. Ḥātim as follows:
"In this battle and assault, we came upon a man named Ḥarqūs b. Nuʿmān al-Namrī. Around him were his sons, daughters, and wife. He had set down a cauldron of wine before them.
They were saying:
- Here come Khālid’s soldiers. At this hour, who can drink this wine now?"
Khālid said to them:
- Drink it as a farewell to wine. I do not think you will drink wine again after this!
They began to drink the wine. Ḥarqūs also said to his family:
"Let me drink before the morning assault! Perhaps our death is near and we are unaware."
The soldiers attacked them. One man struck Ḥarqūs on the head. He saw that his head was in the wine cauldron. His sons, daughters, and wife were taken captive. In this battle, two men who had become Muslim and had with them a letter of safe-conduct from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq were killed. The Muslims were unaware of this. One of these two Muslims killed was ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Abī Ruhm b. Qarwāsh, who was killed by Jarīr b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī. The other was Labīd b. Jarīr, who was killed by one of the Muslims. When news of their deaths reached Abū Bakr, he paid their blood money. He sent their blood money to their children with guardians. ʿUmar also spoke at length about this incident. He reproached Khālid b. Walīd, just as he had spoken against Khālid b. Walīd regarding Mālik b. Nuwayra. However, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq said to him:
- Those who live in the land of the Rabīʿa encounter such situations. Because they are neighbors to the polytheists (mushrikūn), they fall into sin. This situation is also mentioned in the ḥadīth: "I am free from (disavow) anyone who resides among the polytheists (mushrikūn)."
In another ḥadīth: "Do not see their fires." That is, Muslims and polytheists (mushrikūn) should not live together in the same neighborhood."
After this battle, the events of Sanī and Zumayl occurred. The Muslims killed the Bedouins and Persians there. No one escaped from their hands or was able to bring news. Then Khālid sent one-fifth of the spoils and the captives from these battles to Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq. ʿAlī bought an Arab slave girl from among these captives, who was the daughter of Rabīʿa b. Bujayr al-Taghlibī. This slave girl bore to ʿAlī two children named ʿUmar and Ruqayya. May Allah be pleased with them all.