The Jarrahids retaliated against Anushtakin by besieging him Ramla and plundering and massacring the inhabitants of Tiberias.[1] Anushtakin's position was boosted with the defection of Hassan's brother, Thabit, to his camp,[16] but this was short-lived as Thabit betrayed Anushtakin, and the Tayy, Kalb and Kilab Bedouin confederations formed an alliance against him.[2][20][lower-alpha 3] The Fatimids, meanwhile, could not fulfill Anushtakin's request for 2,000 cavalry and infantry reinforcements, and during the cover of night,[20] he fled Ramla for Caesarea with ten of his ghilman.[21] Hassan subsequently freed his aides, sacked Ramla and installed his own governor in the city.[20] His significant defeats notwithstanding,[19] on 26 November,[22] Anushtakin was named amir al-umara (commander of commanders), the first person to be accorded the title by the Fatimids.[19] Desperate to regain some ground from the Jarrahids, Anushtakin moved to recapture Ramla, which he briefly held before being driven back to Ascalon.[23] He then gained the backing of the governor of Jerusalem, Mubarak al-Dawla Fath, and the governor of Tiberias, and led a foray against a Tayy encampment, killing its inhabitants.[24] Nothing is known about the immediate aftermath of Anushtakin's offensives, but in 1026, Hassan persuaded the vizier, al-Hasan al-Rudhbari, to recall Anushtakin to Cairo.[8]