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The Muslims had won a few initial successes against the Persians which emboldened Abu Ubaid. In response the Persians sent a force led by veteran general Bahman, marching towards Hira. The army camped at Quss Natif on the east bank of the Euphrates some distance north of Hira and a little below Kufa. The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, Kurdish: Fırat, Arabic: الفرات; Al-Furat, Old Persian: Ufrat, Syriac: ܦܪܘܬ/ܦܪܬ; Prâth/Frot, Turkish: Fırat, Assyrian Akkadian: Pu-rat-tu, Hebrew: פְּרָת) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia (Beth Nahrain in Syriac), the other being the... The Cave of Hira is the location where Muhammad, according to Islam, received his first revelations from the angel Gabriel(جبريل ). It is located at the peak of Jabal al-Nour (Mountain of Light) in Saudi Arabia. ... Kufa (الكوفة al-Kufa in Arabic) is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf. ...

When Abu Ubaid learned of the movements of the Persians he marched the Muslim army from Hira and camped with 9,000 men on the west bank of the Euphrates at the village of Marauha. Despite the advice of his advisor Saleet bin Qais, Abu Ubaid ordered a bridge of boats thrown over the river and the Muslim army marched along the bridge on the morning of November 28, 634.

When the battle began the Muslim cavalry advanced but were confronted with the war elephants of the Persian army, leading to confusion and disarray. The Persians then advanced, killing Abu Ubaid and then the next in line of the Muslim commanders, and advancing the violence of their assult. As the retreating Muslim forces assembled under the command of Muthanna on the other side of the Euphrates, only 3,000 regrouped out of the total 9,000. Some 2,000 fell fighting, another 2,000 drowned, and some 2,000 fled to Medina and elsewhere.

Muthanna worried that, in the wake of their victory, the Persians would pursue the Muslims across the Euphrates but at that critical moment there was a revolt against Rustam at the Persian capital and Rustam recalled Bahman to al-Madain to help in putting down the revolt.

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