Note 53 — Chapter VII · BATTLE OF YEMAMA. End of A.H. XI. Beginning of 633 A.D.

If Ikrima and Shorahbîl were despatched from Dzul Cassa at the general marshalling when Khâlid marched against Toleiha, then Shorahbîl must have had long to wait. But it is probable (as we have seen) that the popular tradition of the simultaneous despatch of all the columns is a fiction, and that Khâlid’s expedition preceded some of the others by a considerable interval.

After finishing the Yemâma campaign, Shorahbîl’s original orders were to join Amru in his proceedings against the Beni Codhâa in the north.