Note 28 — Chapter V · CAMPAIGN OF KHALID AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHET TOLEIHA. A.H. XI. Nov. A.D. 632.
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We have met Thâbit before as a poet of renown and a chief of influence, especially among the Beni Khazraj (Ibid. p. 449).
The strength of Khâlid’s column is nowhere mentioned, but, adverting to the great number slain at Yemâma (although he was reinforced meanwhile from Medîna), it could hardly have been less than twelve or fifteen hundred, besides the 1,000 men contributed, as we shall see immediately, by the Beni Tay.