How the Muslims Reached the Gates of the Persian Capital

Please support our work on Patreon:   / historicwarlens   If you are interested in historically accurate stories of the early Islamic era, prophets and Sahabas, you can join our other channel here:    / @islamicstorylens   The open battlefields of Al-Qadisiyyah are gone. To kill an empire, the Rashidun Caliphate had to undergo a brutal, painful military evolution. In Episode 7 of our Persian Campaign series (Season 3), Saad ibn Abi Waqqas leads his battle-hardened veterans into Al-Sawad: the Black Land of Iraq. This dense network of deep irrigation canals, flooded rice paddies, and thick palm orchards was a logistical death trap engineered to strip the Arab forces of their greatest asset: mobility. Driven by the brilliant tactical pursuit of vanguard commander Zuhra ibn al-Hawiyya, the Rashidun force fights through the ruins of ancient Babylon and Kutha, arriving at the western gates of the Sassanid metropolitan capital: Bahurasheer. Faced with massive baked-brick walls, heavy torsion artillery (Arradat), and a desperate, starving imperial garrison, the desert warriors must master an entirely alien military science. From digging complex zigzagging approach trenches to building heavy wooden mantlets covered in wet animal hides, witness the gruelling, mechanical reality of 7th-century siege engineering. 📺 Catch Up on Previous Episodes (Season 3): Episode 1 (Battle of Babylon):    • The Day Persia Unleashed Its War Elephants...   Episode 2 (Battles of Namarak & Kaskar):    • The Deadly Persian Trap that Trapped Muslims    Episode 3 (Battle of Bridge):    • The Military Disaster History Tried to For...   Episode 4 (Battle of Buwaib):    • The Ultimate Revenge Battle That Saved the...   Episode 5 (Road to Al Qadisiyah):    • Road to Al-Qadisiyah: The Standoff That De...   Episode 6 (Battle of Al Qadisiyah):    • How One Battle Destroyed 400 Years of the ...   📺 Catch Up on Previous Campaigns: If you want to watch the earlier battles of the Early Muslim Wars, check out the previous seasons here: Season 2: Syrian Campaign Part 1:    • Khalid ibn al-Walid Epic Conquest of Roman...   Season 2: Syrian Campaign Part 2:    • The Military Mind That Broke the Roman Byz...   Season 2: Syrian Campaign Part 3:    • Khalid ibn al-Walid’s Greatest Campaign in...   Season 1: Iraq Campaign:    • Khalid ibn al-Walid Iraq Campaign (All Bat...   #HistoryWarLens #SassanidEmpire #RashidunCaliphate #MilitaryHistory #AncientWarfare #historicwarlens Sources: History of al-Tabari (Tarikh al-Tabari) by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari The Conquests of the Lands (Futuh al-Buldan) by Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri The Complete History (Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh) by Ibn al-Athir The Book of the Major Classes (Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir) by Ibn Sa'd The Book of Military Expeditions (Kitab al-Maghazi) by Al-Waqidi