Note 48 — Chapter VII · BATTLE OF YEMAMA. End of A.H. XI. Beginning of 633 A.D.

I.e. Shawwâl, or two months before the close of A.H. XI. As already explained, the dates are arbitrarily assumed. The Kâtib Wâckidi places the battle of Yemâma in A.H. XII. (which begins March 18, A.D. 633), and even the engagement of Bozâkha in the same year; but this would throw the campaign in Irâc altogether too late. The cold which led Khâlid to order his prisoners to be ‘wrapped,’ must have been on the approach of winter, and corresponds with the chronology which I have been obliged to assume on grounds admittedly vague.