Other Sources
The fall of Palaestina Prima to the Persians was mentioned as a contemporary event in the thirtieth sūrah of the Qur'an, Sūrat al-Rūm. It went on to predict the imminent defeat of the Persians by the Byzantines:
"The Roman Empire has been defeated in a land close by, but after this defeat of theirs they will soon be victorious, within a few years" (Qur'an 30:2-4).
Other manuscripts report fewer corpses where found at Mamilla, 4518 or 4618 corpses, than the 24,518 reported by Antiochus .
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