| Battle of Qaddasiyyah | |||||||||
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| Part of the Muslim conquest of Sassanid empire | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Sassanid Persian empire (Sassanid army) |
Rashidun Caliphate (Rashidun army) | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Rostam Farrokhzād Hormuzan Jalinus Beerzan Mihran |
Caliph Umar Sa`d ibn Abī Waqqās Qa’qa ibn Amr Asim ibn Amr Abdullah ibn Al-Mutim Shurhabeel ibn As samt Zuhra ibn Al-Hawiyya | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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60,000 (primary sources)[1] |
30,000 (primary sources)[2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 30,000 – 40,000 | 6,000[3] | ||||||||
The Battle of al-Qādisiyyah (Arabic: معركة القادسيّة; transliteration, Ma'rakat al-Qādisiyyah; Persian: نبرد قادسيه; alternate spellings: Qadisiyya, Qadisiyyah, Kadisiya) was the decisive engagement between the Arab Muslim army and the Sassanid Persian army during the first period of Muslim expansion which resulted in the Islamic conquest of Persia.