 In retaliation, Shapur II led an expedition through Bahrain, defeated the combined forces of the Arab tribes of "Taghleb", "Bakr bin Wael", and "Abd Al-Qays" and advanced temporarily into "Yamama" in central Najd.The Sassanids resettled these tribes in Kerman and Ahvaz.Arabs named Shapur II, as 
"Shabur Dhul-aktāf" ("he who owns shoulders" because either he pierced or dislocated captured Arabs shoulders or he had wide shoulders) after this battle.