After the Persian army had been routed and Rastam killed, Yazdejerd collected all the ready money and valuables he could, and departed with them from Madâin; and having sent his treasures in the direction of Nehâwend and the mountain-regions, travelled himself to Jalûlâ. When the ray of this news had shone upon the forehead of Sa’d’s luminous mind, he ordered the whole victorious army to assemble on the bank of the Tigris, and tried to devise means for crossing it, because the enemy had removed the boats so that the river could not be easily passed. On this occasion several of the blessed men who had enjoyed the honour of being associated with his holy and prophetic lordship, and had thereby become prominent, said: ‘It being our intention to spread the word of Allah, and to gain Divine approbation, it is possible that the water, which flows by celestial command, will not injure us.’ Hereon, a victory-portending companion entered the water, and was followed by others, but despite the waves of the Tigris and the depth of the river-bed, the water never reached the breast-bands of the horses, so that all the warriors crossed the river, except one, mounted on a piebald horse. When the Persians saw in what manner the Arab army had crossed the river, they raised shouts that demons had arrived. On that occasion Khôrzâd the brother of Rastam Farrahzâd, whom Yazdejerd had left in Madâin to be his lieutenant, arrived with regular troops and drew them up in battle-array opposite to the Musalmâns near the ferry. Being attacked by the Musalmâns, the Persians were routed, and Khôrzâd, departing from the battlefield, shut himself up in the fortress of Madâin, but nevertheless, afterwards perceiving that there was no remedy except flight, he left the city in the middle of the night by the eastern gate with his followers, and departed to Jalûlâ. When Sa’d heard this news, he despatched Ghiâss B. Ghanam Alghurây in pursuit of the fugitives, and himself started to Madâin. When he arrived in the residence of the Sasanian dynasty, and beheld the gilded palaces, the magnificent edifices, with the variety of produce and food of that country, he uttered with his pearl-shedding tongue the blessed verses: ‘How many gardens and fountains and fields of corn, and fair dwellings, and advantages which they enjoyed, did they leave behind them! Thus [we dispossessed them,] and we gave the same for an inheritance to another people.’* Opening his mouth in praise to the Divine Majesty, he held in the hall of Kesra and Naushirwân the prayers of victory with eight flexions. There is a tradition that in Madâin so many nice goods and wonderful stuffs of cloth fell into the possession of the Musalmâns, that it never entered their minds they would obtain a hundredth part of them. Most of the historians narrate that in Qâdesyah and Madâin donkey-loads of camphor fell into the possession of the Arabs, that they mistook them for salt, and applied themselves to bartering golden plates for pieces of gold. In the ‘Fatûh Sayf’ it is recorded that among the spoils of Madâin there was a carpet which had been embroidered with gold and was found in the treasury of Kesra. It measured sixty by sixty cubits, and had been encrusted by master-artists with rubies and jewels to represent a garden with flowers and various plants in elegant designs. When the mind of Kesra was in the winter season bent on pleasure, drinking, and exhilaration, he sat down on that carpet, which seemed to the beholder to be a surface adorned with thornless roses and a variety of other flowers. Sa’d despatched this carpet to Madinah without in any way injuring it, whereon O’mar ordered it to be cut into small but equal pieces, and to be distributed among the Anssâr and Mohâjer, so that a handful of it fell also to the share of A’li the Commander of the Faithful, but he sold it for twenty thousand dirhems or dinârs. While Sa’d B. Abu Woqqâss was sojourning at Madâin, the news arrived that Yazdejerd had with some troops departed from Jalûlâ and had gone to Jalwân.