Note 126 — Chapter X · CAMPAIGN OF KHALID IN IRAC. A.H. XII. A.D. 633.
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The ‘Service of Victory’ consisted of eight continuous Rakâats, or series of prostrations, with the appointed Sura of Victory.
In this first campaign there is no mention of any Moslems killed. There were, no doubt, casualties among the rank and file of the Bedouin tribes, but these are taken little account of. If any ‘Companion,’ or leader of eminence, had been slain, the fact would, no doubt, have been mentioned. We must remember that most of the soldiers from Medîna had returned to their homes from Yemâma, so that there may not have been many Companions present with Khâlid at this time.
With reference to Khâlid’s speech, I should notice that it was the tendency of the Kûfa and Bussora schools to magnify the difficulties of the conquest of Irâc in their own interest, as enhancing their claims upon the revenues of the Sawâd, or surrounding province. In this sense there is a fragment from the Arab warrior Amr ibn Cacâa:—
The Lord water the ground where lie buried the heroes of Irâc Upon the dusty plain and beneath the sandy mounds!
And then he mentions in verse the various fields in which they had fallen in this first campaign from Hafîr to the siege of Hîra.