The Origins of the Islamic State Being a Translation From the Arabic Accompani
The Origins of the Islamic State Being a Translation From the Arabic Accompani
Ahmad Ibn Yahya Baladhuri
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Khalid went with the army of Shurahbil for the divine re- muneration. * Abu-Bakr gives instructions to the commanders. Abu- Bakr instructed *Amr ibn-al-'Asi to follow the way of Ailah 1 Abu-Isma'il al-B^sri, Futuh ash-Sham, p. 5; Hajar, vol. Iii, pp. 1352-1353. * Skizzen, vol. Vi, p. 62, note i ; Ya'kubi, vol. Ii, p. 149. * Mas'udi, vol. Iv, pp. 186-187. * As a volunteer. THE CONQUEST OF SYRIA 167 with Palestine ^ for objective. Yazid he instructed to fol- low the way of Tabuk. To Shurahbil, he... wrote to follow the way of Tabuk, too. At the outset each one of the com- manders had three thousand men under his leadership, but abu-Bakr kept on sending reinforcements until each one had 7, 500. Later the total was increased to 24, 000. It is reported on the authority of al-Wakidi that abu- Bakr assigned 'Amr to Palestine, Shurahbil to the Jordan, and Yazid to Damascus saying, " When ye all fight together, your commander is the one in whose province ye are fight- ing. " It is also reported that to *Amr he gave oral instruc- tions to lead the prayers in case the armies are united, and to have each commander lead the prayer of his own army when the armies are separate.
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