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According to later traditions, indigenous Iberian Jews, progressively disenfranchised under the rule of the Catholic Monarchs and the bishops, provided fighters to augment the Moorish forces.

Kawlah al-Yahudi distinguished himself in the battle at the head of a mixed contingent of Jews and Berbers, according to the compiler of the Akhbar Majmu ' ah.

In the aftermath of victory, the Jews reputedly took several cities and were even commissioned to garrison Seville, Córdoba, and Toledo itself.

Thompson remarks that " whatever the reason for the persecution the Jews, it may have contributed to the utter destruction of those who initiated and enforced it.

" Despite all this, the participation of Jews on the side of the Muslims is not recorded in the Chronicle of 754.