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Battle of al-Madhar

وقعة المذار

between 686 and 687 CE · 67 AH

A battle that Khalifa ibn Khayyat records under the year 67, the year in which al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd was killed in his palace at Kufa by two brothers of Banu Hanifa, who brought his head to Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr 1.

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The Umayyad Period
Region
Levant & Iraq

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The Umayyad Period

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Khalifa ibn Khayyat, under the year 67, writes: in it was the battle of al-Madhar; in it Umar ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (may God be pleased with him) and Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays were killed; and al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd was killed when two brothers of Banu Hanifa, Tarif and Tarraf, entered his palace and killed him, then brought his head to Mus'ab, who gave them thirty thousand. 1 At this point Khalifa gives no more than the battle's name and year.

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During the reign of
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan

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Dome of the Rock· Diwan al-Barid (the postal diwan)· Abd al-Malik's Coinage Reform· The Umayyad al-Aqsa mosque completed under al-Walid I· The Transfer of Syria's Diwan from Greek· Battle of al-Musalla· Battle of Dayr al-Jathaliq· Battle of Marash (694)

Sources

  1. Tarikh Khalifa ibn Khayyat (ed. Akram Diya' al-Umari, Dar Tayba) , p. 264
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