Battle of Ayn al-Tamr
32°33′58.0″N 43°29′25.4″E / 32.566111°N 43.490389°E
| Battle of Ayn al-Tamr | |||||||||
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| Part of Muslim conquest of Persia and Campaigns of Khalid ibn al-Walid | |||||||||
Al-Razzaza Lake in Ain Al-Tamr | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Rashidun Caliphate |
Sasanian Empire Arab Christians | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Khalid ibn al-Walid |
Mihran Bahram-i Chubin (MIA) Aqqa ibn Qays ibn Bashir (POW), later executed | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 500–800 | Unknown number, although it consisted of a "great" following of Arab Christian tribes and Sassanian "mobile troops". At least tens of thousand | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown |
Entire field army executed Persian garrison defenders of the town slaughtered | ||||||||
The Battle of Ayn al-Tamr (Arabic: معركة عين التمر) took place in modern-day Iraq (Mesopotamia) between the early Muslim Arab forces and the Sassanians along with their Arab Christian auxiliary forces. Ayn al-Tamr is located west of Anbar and was a frontier post which had been established to aid the Sassanids.
The Muslims under Khalid ibn al-Walid's command soundly defeated the Sassanian auxiliary force, which included large numbers of non-Muslim Arabs who broke earlier covenants with the Muslims. According to William Muir, Khalid ibn al-Walid captured the Arab Christian commander, Aqqa ibn Qays ibn Bashir, with his own hands, which matched the accounts of both Ibn Atheer in his Usd al-ghabah fi marifat al-Saḥabah, and Tabari in his Tarikh.