Mobilize for fighting against the people of Hijāz and receive your wage!

Mobilize for fighting against the people of Hijāz and receive your wage!” Whoever volunteered would receive one hundred dinars cash right on the spot. Those for whom only money was important immediately agreed. After a short while about twelve thousand individuals gathered.[^7] Some other historians have reported the number of Syrian army as amounting to ten thousand troops. The age span of the troops was between twenty to fifty years.

All required equipment had been provided for them, so that many camels were carrying necessary equipment and weapons of the army.[^8]72 Some other historians have put it this way: Yazīd ordered people to prepare to go to Hijāz; twenty thousand infantry troops and seven thousand cavalries prepared. Yazīd gave two hundred dinars to the mounted and a hundred dinars to the infantry troops as award and ordered them to move along with Muslim b. 'Uqba.[^9]73 Yazīd accompanied Muslim b.

'Uqba and the Syrian army for about half a Farsakh (2.8 km) to see them off.[^10] Among the army, some Syrian Christians were also seen who had prepared to fight against the people of Medina.[^11] [^1]: Ibn A’tham Kūfi, Al-Futūh, vol. 3, p. 179. [^2]: ‘Amr b. Sa‘īd b. ‘Ās b. Umayyah b. ‘Abd Shams, renowned as Ashdaq is the same person who was the governor of Medina in 61 A.H. (680 C.E.) when Imam Husain (a) was martyred. (Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p.

176 [^3]: Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī al-Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 11. [^4]: Ibn A’tham Kūfi, Al-Futūh, vol. 5, p. 180. [^5]: Ibid, vol. 5, p. 180; Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī al-Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 112; Samhūdī, Wafā’ al-Wafā’, vol. 1, p. 130. [^6]: Dinawari, al-Akhbār al-Tiwāl, p. 310; Ibn Kathīr, Al-Bidāyat wa al-Nihāya, vol. 6, p. 234. [^7]: Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī al-Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 112; Ibn Taghrī Birdī, Al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 1, p. 261; Samhūdī, Wafā’ al-Wafā’, vol. 1, p. 128.

[^8]: Ibn Qutayba, Al-Imāma wa al-Siyāsa, vol. 1, p. 209; Abū al-Fidā‘, Al-Mukhtasar fī Akhbār al-Bashar, vol. 1, p. 192. [^9]: Dinawari, al-Akhbār al-Tiwāl, p. 310; Tabarī, Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 371; Ibn A’tham Kūfi, Al-Futūh, vol. 5, p. 180. [^10]: Mas‘ūdī, Murūj al-Dhahab, vol. 2, p. 95; Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī al-Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 56; Bal‘amī, Ta’rīkh Nāma-yi Tabarī, vol. 4, p. 279. [^11]: Philip Hitti, Ta’rīkh al-‘Arab, vol. 1, p. 248. Previous…