[1]: 83  The two armies met at Zallah on Dhul Hijjah 938 AH which corresponds to July or August 1532.

[2] The two armies clashed fiercely with the Adalites having the upper hand until Addalih was flung from his horse by a Somali cavalryman and then beheaded.

[2]: 382  As they fled the Adalites slew innumerable fleeing Abyssinian soldiers and captured all their belongings.

[3] The Muslim chronicler notes that following the battle the terrain was covered with the dead and blood flowed like water on the ground.

Addoli took the wife of Addalih as his concubine and on orders from Imam Ahmad hanged an apostate named Naqdiyah outside the gates of Zallah.