 Ibn al-Muwaffaq won this battle, forcing Khumarawayh to flee to Egypt.However, Ibn al-Muwaffaq's army lost a later engagement and he fled to Damascus.In 975 the army of Egypt-based Fatimid caliph al-'Aziz defeated and imprisoned the Aleppo-based Hamdanid general Aftakin at Auja River, opposite the ruined castle of Majdal Yaba.