Other Muslim raids penetrate into the Negev…
630 CE
Other Muslim raids penetrate into the Negev reaching as far as Gaza.
Islamic sources record that Heraclius dreamt of the coming Arab invasion.
Historian al-Tabari wrote that Heraclius dreamed of a new kingdom of the "circumcised man" that would be victorious against all its enemies.
After telling his court his dream, his patricians, who did not know of the rise of Islam in Arabia, "advised him to send orders to behead every Jew in his dominion.”
According to Al-Tabari, it was only when a Bedouin trader speaking of a man uniting the tribes of Arabia under a new religion is brought before the Emperor that Heraclius and his court realized that the kingdom of the "circumcised man" was not the Jews but the coming Islamic Empire.