Ajnādayn is the traditional name of the site in Palestine of a battle (Maʿrakat Ajnādayn) in 13/634 between the Byzantine army and the Muslim-Arab invaders attacking the Byzantine territories in Bilād al-Shām (greater Syria), during the early Muslim caliphate. Although Islamic literary sources report precisely that Ajnādayn lay between Ramla and Bayt Djibrin, no site by that name is attested by classical or modern geographers. On topographical grounds, Meidnik located the site of the battle on the Wādī al-Samṭ. There are two small villages in the