68 The Dār, and he, may God guide him, and his obedient Arabs, descended to the water of Taghalīn, then he was afflicted. Mustajīsh, all the Arabs of al-ʿĀmiriyyah, al-Yaʿqūbiyyah, al-Yadīliyyah, and al-ʿAṭāf, took them by force from the faces of the land eastward until he descended to the outskirts of the city of Ashīr, and from there he returned to the left, encircling his west upon the entry of the Tlāyā, then their flight, their horses and their wealth from him, and taking the pass of the valley of Shalf. When the rebels sensed him, they resorted to Tārb. Nathn, may God guide him, to al-Barwāqiyyah, and there the armies were tested. Mīr Akraḥasm, as I described him before, and their account was ten thousand horsemen. So he departed, taking the pass of the mountain, and winds came from his east, so they surrounded him. The opponents, after hunger, were the Muslims, who had joined him in confronting the approaching enemy. Then they fled from him, the last of them, their horsemen and their infantry, and they came to the people of the mountain at night, and all of them rode out on Sunday, the twenty-fifth of Shawwāl. And the pursuers raided with the speed of the high places, so the people of the right were startled. They retreated to the foot of Jabalm, and the fighting between the two groups continued until the afternoon. The enemy's fighters increased, so the commander of the Muslims mounted his warhorses and organized the flanks and appointed the battle line, and that was at the beginning of the day.