Amr ibn Ma'adi Yakrib al-Zubaīdi al-Madḥ'hijī was an Arabian cavalry commander of the Zubaid clan in Yemen, part of the Madhhij tribe confederation. Amr is considered a legendary warrior, battling against legendary figures like Amir ibn Tufail, Antarah ibn Shaddad and Dorayd bin Al Soma.
Antarah ibn Shaddad, long time nemesis of Amr in the pre-Islamic poetries.
Modern picture of Abha, historically the hometown of Amr ibn Ma'dikarib.
The Great Mosque of Sanaa, the oldest mosque in Yemen. It was built around 633 CE.
The cavalry units under Qa'qa and Amr captured the trench behind the Sassanid army.
The Battle of the Yarmuk was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate. The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, along what are now the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria-Israel, southeast of the Sea of Galilee. The result of the battle was a crushing Muslim victory that ended Roman rule in Syria after about seven centuries. The Battle of the Yarmuk is regarded as one of the most decisive battles in military history, and it marked the first great wave of early Muslim conquests after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, heralding the rapid advance of Islam into the then-Christian/Roman Levant.
Illustration of the Battle of Yarmuk by an anonymous Catalan illustrator (c. 1310–1325)
Across the ravines lies the battlefield of Yarmuk, about 8 miles away from here, in Jordan
