
Rostam Farrokhzad (died 19 November 636) was a Sassanid Persian nobleman, general, and Iranian national hero who was slain in battle with the Arabs at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah.
Biography[]
Rostam Farrokhzad was born in Adurbadaghan, Sassanid Persia, the son of the Parthian nobleman Farrukh Hormizd. Late in the Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-28, he and his father deposed Shah Khosrau II, and, when his father usurped the throne and was killed by Azarmidokht in 630, Rostam avenged his death by overthrowing and killing Azarmidokht. He and the Persian noble leader Piruz Khosrow agreed to a truce in 632 after their armies mutinied rather than continue fighting, and, in 636, Shah Yazdegerd III sent Rostam Farrokhzad to defeat the invading Arab armies. He fought the great Muslim general Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah in 636, and he was found dead with over 600 wounds on his body.