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The current situation in Homs makes me interested in the early muslim history of that area. Found out that khalid ibn walid ra's son used to be the governor there. Quote from Tarikh at Tabari, has anyone read this one? Want to know if its true story

'Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Khaalid ibn al-Waleed was the governor of Homs. When they reached him, he summoned them and spoke sternly to them, saying to them, among other things: 0 tools of the shaytaan, you are not welcome here. The shaytaan went back defeated and lost, but you are still active in falsehood. May 'Abd al-Rahmaan be doomed if he does not discipline and humiliate you. 0 people who I do not know whether you are Arabs or Persians, you will never be able to speak to me as you spoke to Sa'eed or Mu'awiyah. I am the son of Khaalid ibn al-Waleed, I am the son of one who was toughened by his experiences, I am the son of the one who defeated apostasy, and by Allah I shall humiliate you. 'Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Khaalid let them stay with him for a whole month, during which he treated them with the utmost strictness and harshness, and was not soft with them as Sa'eed and Mu'awiyah had been. If he walked, they walked with him; if he rode, they rode with him; if he went out on a military campaign, they went out with him. He did not miss any opportunity to humiliate them. Every time he met their leader, Sa'sa'ah ibn Sawhaan, he said to him: 0 son of sin, do you know that if a person cannot be disciplined by good means, he will be disciplined by bad means, and if he cannot be disciplined by a soft approach he will be disciplined by a hard approach? And he told them: Why are you not answering back as you used to answer back to Sa'eed in Kufah and Mu'awiyah in Syria? Why do you not address me as you used to address them?