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world. The historical sources are as always uncertain and 
inadequate ; Ibn Hisham gives a list of these embassies, but 
doesnot base them on the authority of Ibn-Ishaq ; Tabari, it 
is true, quotes Ibn-Ishaq, but it is noted,—and this creates 
doubt within us, that the redaction of Ibn-Ishaq which he has 
used is more recent and richer in apocryphal traditions than 
that of Ibn Hisham (Hist. d. Arabes, I, p. 154). 
Probably in the course of Muharram (Caet., II, I, p. 9) of 
the 7th year of the Hijrah commenced the cainpaign of Khaybar, 
and of the fortresses which there fell into the hands of the victo- 
7 we 
approached the Prophet in that connection, but yielded her up 
to the latter on learning that he had reserved her as his own, 
and received instead her two cousins (Ibn H., 758). : 
After the demise of the Prophet he again figures in the 
list of warriors, though he never rose to a superior command. 
When Damascus had been added to the number of Muslim 
victories (14 A.H.), Yazid b. Abi Sufyan was installed there 
as military commander, and from that centre sent out expedi- 
tionary forces to the neighbouring districts not yet under sub- 
jugation. Dihyah was placed in charge of a force of cavalry 
and dispatched to Tadmur (Palmyra), which readily accepted 
the same terms of peace as those with Damascus (Tab., I, 
2154; Caet., IIT, 498). 
Yet again he appears in the role of a junior commander; 
at the Battle of the Yarmik in 15 A.H., he was given charge 
of one of the squadrons of cavalry which under Khalid b. Sa- 
‘id had fled at Marju’s-Suffar (Muharram, 14 A.H.; Tab., J, 
2093 ; Caet., III, 567); for the fixation of the latter date, see 
Caet., ITI, 32v. 
