Abū ʿAbd Allāh Shuraḥbīl ibn Ḥasana was one of the earliest Muslim converts, a sahabi and a key commander in the Rashidun army during the Muslim conquest of the Levant.
Shrine of Shurahbil ibn Hasana, Jordan
The Rashidun Caliphate conquered Byzantine Syria between 634–638 CE as part of the Arab–Byzantine wars and the wider Muslim conquests.
Shurahbil ibn Hasana
…was one of the earliest Muslim converts, a sahabi (companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) and a key commander in the Rashidun army during the Muslim conquest of the Levant. Shurahbil's father was a certain Abd Allah ibn Mu'ta ibn Amr, a member of the Arab tribe of Kinda. Shurahbil was named after his mother Hasana. Through…
Scene of the Roman Theatre at Palmyra, 2005.
The Monastery of the Temptation, built by the Byzantines in the 6th century over the cave where Jesus spent forty days fasting.
The Kaysan Gate, one of six gates of Damascus besieged by the commanders of the Muslim armies in Syria
The Roman road between the northern Syrian cities of Antioch and Qinnasrin, which the Muslims captured in c. 637