ثمَّ خرجنا ونحن اثنان وعشرون فارسًا، منهم عرب ومنهم أعاجم، فخرج علينا في تلك الصحراء ثمانون رجلًا من الكفار وفارسان
We then set out too, numbering in all twenty-two horsemen, partly Arabs and partly non-Arabs i.e. Persians and Turks, and were attacked in the open country there by eighty infidels on foot with two horsemen