The Battle of Qadisiyyah by Abdul Malik Mujahid

A little more than 400 martyrs came from the tribe of
Banu Asad. The Iranians had relatively heavy losses. That
day 2,000 of their soldiers were consigned to hellfire; and
they had a substantially high number of wounded. When
darkness fell, both armies retired to their camps for the
night. No fighting took place during the night and so it
was called 'The Night of Quietness' or Laylat Al-Had'at,
which literally means 'The Night of Rest'.
The Muslim Martyrs
and Wounded
Sa' d bin Abi Waqqas ~ put a group of men in charge
of carrying the corpses of the martyrs and the wounded to
Udhayb Al-Hijanat, which was situated in the rear of the
Muslim army, about two kilometers from the battlefield.
The Muslim women of the fighters had been w aiting there
for them. Since the Muslim warriors had been participating
in the campaign for several months, they had taken their
spouses with them. This group of women ran the army's
medical camp.
These women not only treated the wounded but they
also had the grueling task of digging graves and
burying the dead. Nursing the wounded is natural
to womenfolk, but digging graves is definitely a
coarse assignment. But these daughters of Islam