- "When he went to battle and did not fight at the beginning of the day, he would not hasten until the time for prayers arrived, the winds blew, and the fighting became favorable." It was recorded by Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī in "al-Tārīkh" (2/233-235) and Ibn Ḥibbān (1712 - al-Mawārid), and the context is from the narration of: Mubārak ibn Faḍālah: Ziyād ibn Jubayr ibn Ḥayyah narrated to us, saying: (My father informed me that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) said to al-Hurmuzān: Now that you have come to me yourself, advise me. This was because he said to him: "Speak, there is no harm," granting him safety, so al-Hurmuzān said: Yes, indeed Persia today is a head and two wings. He said: Where is the head? He replied: Nahāvand with Bandar, and with him are the warriors of Kisrā and the people of Isfahan. He said: Where are the two wings? Al-Hurmuzān mentioned a place which I forgot, and then al-Hurmuzān said: Cut off the wings, and the head will weaken. So ʿUmar (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) said to him: You have lied, enemy of Allāh, rather I will go for the head and Allāh will cut it off, and when Allāh cuts it off from me, the two wings will fall away from me. ʿUmar intended to go there himself, but they said: We remind you by Allāh, O Commander of the Faithful, not to go yourself to the Persians, for if you are harmed there, the Muslims will have no order, but rather send the troops. So he sent the people of Medina and among them was ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, and he sent the Muhājirīn and the Anṣār, and he wrote to Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī to proceed with the people of Basra, and he wrote to Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān to proceed with the people of Kufa until they all gathered at Nahāvand, and when they gathered, their commander was al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin al-Muzanī. When they gathered