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The gate lifted and Abd ar-Rahman's men fell upon the unsuspecting Abbasids, thoroughly routing them.
Most of the Abbasid army was killed.
The heads of the main Abbasid leaders were cut off.
Their heads were preserved in salt, and identifying tags pinned to their ears.
The heads were bundled together in a gruesome package and sent to the Abbasid caliph who was on pilgrimage at Mecca.
Upon receiving the evidence of al-Ala's defeat in al-Andalus, al-Mansur is said to have gasped, “ God be praised for placing a sea between us ”!
Al-Mansur hated, and yet apparently respected Abd al-Rahman to such a degree that he dubbed him the " Hawk of Quraysh " ( The Umayyads were from a branch of the Quraysh tribe ).
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