Umar RA battles

Question 1

Namrak

Answer 1

Hira
Khalid Iraq –> Syria
death = conquers halt
1000-2000 Abu Ubaida Thaqifi
al Muthanna
Rustam (Purandakht) reunited persians
Nusri and Jaban
retreat Khafan, Jaban Namrak
10/634
Jaushan and Mardan Shah
victory

Question 2

Jasr/ Marwa/ Bridge

Answer 2

infuriated
10k Bahman 10/634
elephants, darafsh-i-Kaviyani
euphrates
Abu Ubaida crossed bridge (boats)
9k Arab
horses frightened
(disadvantages: war elephants and uneven ground)
Abu Ubaida trampled and killed
Banu Thaqif
Al Muthanna
3k/9k
Abdullah

Question 3

Buwayb

Answer 3

Umar shocked
Muthanna
11/634
speeches = Azd700 Banu Tamim1000, Adi bin Hatim Tai, Kinana, Hanzala, Bajila2000
30k
Boran Dakht (100k)
Mehran Hamdani , elephants
Persians crossed river
Muthanna Takbir 3
1. fierce
2. retreat M, centre, Masud
dive
Mehran killed (taghlib), retreat, block, 100k killed

Question 4

Qadsiya

Answer 4

defeat in Buwayb = avenge yazdigerd III
120k+ raised under Rustam Farrukhzad
umar - Sad bin Abi Waqas 28k
Muslim army: 70Badr 300Hudaibiya
i) encamp qadsiya ii) messengers to persian court
7-9 636
al Nauman bin Muqarrin
3 month skirmishes
Khalid bin Arfata
11/636
1. Yaum al armath
2. yaum al aghwath
3. yaum al Imas, laila al harir
2/3 1/5
Rustam killed
sad chased babal
2mMadain
euphrate - tigris

28k 120k

Question 5

Ubulla

Answer 5

port town tigris
strategic
Utba bin Ghazwan
eastern
Utba Ubulla mountain range
governor
khuzestan
Basra

Question 6

Jalula

Answer 6

Hulwan
Farrukhzad
trench
saad
12k utba qaqa, Mashar, Hashim
100k
siege 3 - 80
storm and darknss, P retreat, fall
30M

12k 100k

Question 7

Nihawand

Answer 7

ban
yezdigard recapture
khurasan
mesopotamia
150k
letters Hudhaifa (kufa) Nauman Abu Musa (Basra)
Al Nauman bin Muqarrin 30k
saad and tulayha
firuzan and Mardan
trench
2
deceive, blood, killed.
642

30k 150k

Question 8

Fahl