 In perhaps the bloodiest encounter in the Berber wars, Handhala ibn Safwan defeated the great Berber army of Abd al-Wahid ibn Yazid at El-Asnam around May 742 (perhaps a little later), just three miles outside of Kairouan.Some 120,000-180,000 Berbers, including Abd al-Wahid, fell in the field of battle in that single encounter.Oqasha was executed shortly after.