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- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Arabia
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Overview
In Safar 64 AH the army of the people of Syria besieged Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca and threw catapults at him, as al-Suyuti relates. 1
The siege
Al-Suyuti says that the amir of the army died on the road, and another amir was appointed over them. They came to Mecca and besieged Ibn al-Zubayr and fought him. 1
The sparks of their fires burned the curtains of the Ka'ba and its roof, and the two horns of the ram which, al-Suyuti says, was given as a ransom for Isma'il, which were in the roof. 1
The death of Yazid
Al-Suyuti relates that Yazid died in the middle of Rabi al-Awwal that year. News of it came while the fighting continued. Ibn al-Zubayr called out to the people of Syria that their lord had died, and they dispersed and were snatched up by the people. Ibn al-Zubayr called for allegiance to himself and took the title of caliph, and the people of Syria gave their allegiance to Mu'awiya ibn Yazid. 1
The date of the event is derived. The data cites two other sources, to which the sentences here are not attributed, so the report needs an additional source.
Connections
- Had participant
- Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Occurred at
- Mecca
People and things also explored
The Battle of Hunayn· Killing of Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr· Ibn al-Zubayr's rebuilding of the Ka'ba· Banu Hashim· Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 345
- Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006)
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “Siege of Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/siege-of-ibn-al-zubayr-64/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.