At the head of 7,000 infantry, cavalry and Bedouin auxiliaries, Anushtakin marched, in succession, to Ramla and Jerusalem, gathering further troops in the process.[1][2] The Bedouin alliance mobilized with Hassan leading the Tayy and Salih ibn Mirdas, the Mirdasid emir of Aleppo, commanding the Kilab.[6] In May 1029, Anushtakin and the chieftain of the Kalb, Rafi ibn Abi-Layyal, routed the Tayy and Kilab at the Jordan River village of al-Uqhawana near Lake Tiberias.[6][26] The battle ended when Salih was slain,[26] after which many of his comrades were killed as they fled south into the Hejaz.[27] Anushtakin's victory paved the way for the Fatimid reconquest of Syria, with Salih's governors fleeing the coastal fortress of Sidon and the inland fortresses of Baalbek, Homs and Hisn Akkar between Damascus and the Mirdasid capital in Aleppo.[26] Anushtakin, meanwhile, acquired Salih's Turkish ghilman and set up headquarters in Damascus.[26] Afterward, Anushtakin "solidified his position as the most powerful Fatimid governor of Syria", according to Lev.[4]