فلما رددت الناس زحفوا إلينا، وما برى من سور حماة فارس غيريمنهم من دخل المدينة وايقنوا انهم مأخوذون، ومنهم من هو مترجل في ركابي
As I started to turn back our men, the enemy advanced towards us and no cavaliers of our company remained outside the wall of Hamah but myself, for some of them, realizing that they would be captured, went inside the walls, and others dismounted and marched in my escort