Al qaqa ibn amr al tamimi biography
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Al-Qa'qa ibn Amr
Arab military commander
Al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mālik Al-Tamīmī (Arabic: القعقاع بن عمرو بن مالك التميمي الراعي) was an Arab Muslim commander and general in the Rashidun army who belonged to the tribe of Banu Tamim. He and his tribe converted to Islam possibly during the time of Ahnaf ibn Qais. He is known as a successful military commander who took part in two important victorious battles in the early Muslim Conquest, the Battle of Yarmouk against the Byzantine Empire (commanded by Khalid ibn al-Walid) and the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah against the Sassanian Empire which was led by Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas. The Caliph Abu Bakr praised him as an equal to eleven thousand men so in return the caliph's successor, caliph Umar, only sent Qaʿqāʿ and a handful of bodyguards in the first wave of reinforcements to Al-Qadissiyah.[1] Qaʿqāʿ was one of the most illustrious military figures of his era.
Life
[edit]Ridda wars
[edit]Qa'qa ibn Amr At-tamimi converted along with his tribe, in the Year of the Delegations, 631 CE. But, for a brief period, he and other Tamim joined the force of the false prophetess Sajah bint al-Harith before she was subdued during the Ridda wars. Later on he carried on a successful military campaign under Khalid bin Walid, suppress
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Ridda wars
Qa'qa ibn Amr At-tamimi converted along with his tribe, in the Year of the Delegations, 631 CE. But, for a brief period, he and other Tamim joined the force of the false prophetess Sajah bint al-Harith before she was subdued during the Ridda wars. Later on he carried on a successful military campaign under Khalid bin Walid, suppressing another false prophet, Tulayha, in the Battle of Buzakha.[2] After the Ridda wars ended he continued to follow Khalid's campaign to Syria and Iraq.
Muslim conquest of Iraq and Syria
Qa'qa took part in the Battle of Chains and on one occasion when Qa'qa saw Khalid duelling the Sassanid champion Hormuzan, Qa'qa immediately rushed as he saw Hormuz had sent five to six soldiers to aid him, swarming over Khalid to intercept the duel. Then Qa'qa and Khalid overcame Hormuzan and his guards, killing all the Sassanid soldiers who intended to kill Khalid during the duel in the process, along with Hormuzan. [3][4][5] During this battle it is reported that Qa'qa said: "We did trample Hormuz with fury restrained...".[6]
Later, as incensed Christian Arabs of this area sought revenge for their leader Aqqa who fell in the Battle of Al-Anbar, they contacted the Persian commander named Bahman who in turn divided the Persian-Arab forces in
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Ridda wars[]
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