This study revisits one of the most important historical events in the Umayyad state (40-132 A.H./661-750 C.E.) the battle of al-Ḥarra (63 A.H./683 C.E.).40-132 A.H./661-750 C.E.) Although the historians and narrators have long proven the historicity of the battle they have done so by controlling the narrative and suppressing the many reasons behind the battle.This study through the analysis of the various narratives tries to answer the following: Did the historians reproduce this event according to a different set of criteria than those governing the actual event? And were the historians successful in producing a cohesive narrative that kept close to the actual events while maintaining a neutral stance with regards to the people and the city of Medina? Or was their response to, i.e. their narratives of, the battle of al-Ḥarra a kind of intolerance by the Historians' Class that required the use of imaginary and false narratives? This study has uncovered the historical treatment of this incident, which has the historians, when dealing with the contradictory narratives, add weight in favor of the Medinans over that of the Syrians. Thus allowing the multiple levels of interpretations of these narratives; some passionate, others imaginary, that shaped this incident into a tragic epic; politically and religiously.